James Joyce III - Reading Finnegans Wake: graded paper - AAALC023B

• Title: James Joyce III - Reading Finnegans Wake: písemná práce
• Guaranteed by: Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2024
• Semester: both
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: written
• Hours per week, examination: 0/0, Ex [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
• 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

Literature

READING JAMES JOYCE’S FINNEGANS WAKE

Wednesday 3.50-5.20, Room 34

David Vichnar, PhD

Optional M.A. Course

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.

MOODLE LINK TO SYLLABUS & ALL READINGS:

https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=4769

Last update: Vichnar David, Mgr., Ph.D. (31.01.2023)

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Last update: Znojemská Helena, Mgr., Ph.D. (15.06.2016)