Reading James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake I - AAALC032A

• Title: Reading James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake I
• Guaranteed by: Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2022
• Semester: both
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 5
• Hours per week, examination: 0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: winter:unknown / unknown (unknown); summer:unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Additional information: https://dl1.cuni.cz/enrol/index.php?id=4769
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
• Guarantor: Mgr. David Vichnar, Ph.D.
• Class: Exchange - 09.2 General and Comparative Literature
• Is co-requisite for: AAALC032B

Annotation

Last update: Mgr. David Vichnar, Ph.D. (04.02.2022)

Optional M.A. Course, Special Programme in Irish Cultural Studies
Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures
Faculty of Arts
Time: Wed 12.30-14.00
Place: Room 34

COURSE DESCRIPTION
The course will attempt a close reading of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake side by side with exegetic and critical material. Departing from detailed explorations, in previous seminars, of Joyce’s “day book” Ulysses and some of the techniques employed there (mythological method, interior monologue, stream of consciousness, cinematic flashback & flash-forward, montage, discursive collage, etc.), the course will focus on his “night book”, arguably the experimental text to emerge from the interwar avant-garde scene, and yet one whose avant-garde affiliation remains a highly problematic one.
By means of focusing on particular passages from across the whole book and exploring some of their famous techniques (the pun & the portmanteau, multilingualism, the sigla, the acrostic, textual recycling & circularity, the coincidence of the narrative "character" with the written "character", etc.) the course will consider how Joyce’s radical experiment revolutionised the novel genre and the potential of his "revolution of the word" for further critical thinking on the materiality of language.

LINK TO SYLLABUS & PRIMARY READINGS: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=4769

Literature

Last update: Mgr. Helena Znojemská, Ph.D. (01.07.2021)

WORK BY JOYCE

Dubliners, ed. Robert Scholes with Richard Ellmann. New York: Viking Press, 1967.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. The definitive text corrected from the Dublin Holograph by Chester G. Anderson and edited by Richard Ellmann. New York: Viking Press, 1966.

Ulysses. New York: Random House, 1934, reset and corrected 1961.

Finnegans Wake. London: Faber and Faber, 1939.

Giacomo Joyce, ed. Richard Ellmann. London: Faber, 1968.

The Critical Writings of James Joyce. Eds. Ellsworth Mason and Richard Ellmann. New York: Viking Press, 1959.

Letters of James Joyce. Vol. I, ed. Stuart Gilbert. New York: Viking Press, 1957; re-issued with corrections 1966. Vols. II and III, ed. Richard Ellmann. New York: Viking Press, 1966.

Selected Letters, ed. Richard Ellmann. New York: Viking Press, 1975.

CORE CRITICAL TEXTS

Adaline Glasheen, A Census of Finnegans Wake, III vols. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1952; 1963; 1977.

Ellmann, Richard. James Joyce. London: Oxford University Press, 1959.

Ellmann, Richard. James Joyce. Revised edition. London: Oxford University Press, 1982.

A Wake Digest, eds. Clive Hart and Fritz Senn. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1968.

James Joyce Archive, ed. Michael Groden, et al. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1977-79.

CRITICAL TEXTS

Giacomo Joyce: Envoys of the Other, eds. Armand & Wallace. Bathesda: Academica, 2002.

Petr Škrabanek, Night Joyce of a Thousand Tiers. Prague: Litteraria, 2002.

JoyceMedia, ed. Armand. Prague: Litteraria, 2004.

Teaching methods

Last update: Mgr. Helena Znojemská, Ph.D. (01.07.2021)

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