JAMES JOYCE II: ULYSSES & FINNEGANS WAKE (Summer 2026, Wed 17:30-19:00, Room 1)
David Vichnar, PhD (david.vichnar@ff.cuni.cz) (Office hours: by appointment, Room 219b)
Optional M.A. Course
Special Programme in Critical & Cultural Theory; Irish Cultural Studies
Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures
Faculty of Arts, Charles University Prague
The second half of a two-semester course surveying James Joyce's four crucial works. In the summer semester, we will cover crucial passages a selection of ULYSSES and FINNEGANS WAKE, both of which will be read in a complex critical context, with a selection of representative secondary criticism and theory provided.
MOODLE LINK TO SYLLABUS & ALL READINGS:
https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=4005
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.
Poslední úprava: Vichnar David, Mgr., Ph.D. (03.02.2026)
