English Studies
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G R A D U A T E D E G R E E P R O G R A M M E : E N G L I S H S T U D I E S<br />
Course contents<br />
Recommended<br />
reading<br />
Supplemetary<br />
reading<br />
Literature. The prerequisites are defined by the Faculty Statute.<br />
The course explores the main features of Joyce’s poetics by studying his<br />
major works. Grounded on the belief that Joyce’s entire oeuvre can be<br />
perceived as ‘work in progress’, the first part of the course focuses on<br />
Dubliners by looking at different aspects of the book’s central theme of<br />
‘paralysis’, as well as by examining Joyce’s fictional methods in this early<br />
work, the most important of them being an alternation of naturalistic and<br />
symbolic elements in the text.<br />
The analysis then moves on to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by<br />
emphasizing its importance within the traditions of the Bildungsroman and<br />
Künstelerroman. In this sense, the development of the artistic consciousness<br />
of Joyce’s Stephen Dedalus is seen as his attempt to move away from Plato<br />
to Aristotle, from his initial idealistic vision of the world to his final<br />
materialistic perception of it. This study also emphasizes the importance of<br />
Stephen’s aesthetic theory at the end of the novel, as well as the narrative<br />
innovativeness of A Portrait in relation to Stephen Hero, the text which<br />
preceded it.<br />
Ulysses is read primarily in view of its stylistic and linguistic complexity<br />
both in relation to Dubliners and A Portrait, and in the context of Modernist<br />
literature in general.<br />
Primary literature:<br />
Joyce, James, Dubliners<br />
Stephen Hero<br />
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<br />
Ulysses<br />
Secondary literature:<br />
Bloom, H. (ed.) (1987). James Joyce's Ulysses. New York, New Haven and<br />
Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers.<br />
Killeen, T. (2004). Ulysses Unbound: A Reader's Companion to James<br />
Joyce's Ulysses. Wicklow: Wordwell.<br />
Power, M. and Schneider, U. (1997). New Perspectives on Dubliners.<br />
Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi.<br />
Schutte, W. M (ed.) (1968). Twentieth Century Interpretations of A<br />
Portrait of The Artist as A Young Man: A Collection of Critical Essays<br />
New Jersey: Prentice-Hall; Englewood Cliffs.<br />
Blades, J. (1991). James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<br />
London: Penguin.<br />
Ellmann, R. (1982). James Joyce: New and Revised Edition. New York:<br />
Oxford University Press.<br />
Norris, M. (1998). A Companion to James Joyce's Ulysses: Biographical<br />
and Historical contexts, Critical History, and Essays from Five<br />
Contemporary Critical Perspectives. Boston; New York: Bedford/St.<br />
Martin’s.<br />
Senn, F. (1995). Inductive Scrutinies: Focus on Joyce. Baltimore: Johns<br />
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