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SCHEDULE
Week 0
Oct 2: Introduction
Week 1
Oct 7: Telemachus
Hugh Kenner, “Uses of Homer,” T.S. Eliot, “Ulysses, Order & Myth”
Oct 9: Nestor, Proteus
Hugh Kenner, “Oh Impossible Fellow”
First thesis statement on reading due
Week 2
Oct 14: Calypso. 45-55
second thesis statement on reading due for A-K
Oct 16: #Lotus-Eaters & Hades
André Topia, “Intertextuality in Ulysses” 103-16
First critical précis (on Topia) due for L-Z
Oct 18: “Riverrun: James Joyce and the Ecologies of Modernism” conference at UCR
Week 3
Oct 21: # 7 Aeolus
Karen Lawrence, “Bloom in Circulation”
First critical précis (on Lawrence) due for A-K
Oct 23: # 8, 9 Lestrygonians 124-50
Second thesis-statement due for L-Z
Week 4
Oct 28: Scylla and Charybdis 151-79
Show critical review for annotated bibliography on elective article
A-K thesis statements
Oct 30: Wandering Rocks 180-209
Lawrence, “Wandering Rocks and Sirens”
L-Z thesis statements
Week 5
Nov 4: # 11, Sirens 210-39, Take-home midterm essay distributed
Nov 6: #12, Cyclops 240-83
Topia, 116-24; Will Litton, “The Passion for the Real and Joyce’s “Cyclops”
A-K thesis statements
Week 6
Nov 11: #13, Nausicaa 284-313
Vicky Mahaffey, “Ulysses & the ends of gender”
L-Z thesis statements
Nov 13: #14, Oxen of the Sun 314-49 Take-home midterm or prospectus due
Week 7
Nov 18: Circe 350-496
A-K response posting
Nov 19: OH: Confer about prospectus; required for students with late prospectus
Nov 20: Circe, Eumaeus 497-505 Late prospectus due
L-Z response posting
Week 8
Nov 25: Eumaeus & Ithaca 501-607
Nov 27: Thanksgiving--class cancelled
Week 9
Midnight, Sunday Nov 30: Everyone must email final drafts to the instructor or peer-reviewers
Dec 2: class cancelled for peer reviewing
Dec 4: Penelope 608-644
Week 10
Dec 9: Penelope & sneak peak @ Finnegans Wake
Dec 11: Final paper due, Review & distribution of certificates, Rejoyce
SCHEDULE
Week 0
Oct 2: Introduction
Week 1
Oct 7: Telemachus
Hugh Kenner, “Uses of Homer,” T.S. Eliot, “Ulysses, Order & Myth”
Oct 9: Nestor, Proteus
Hugh Kenner, “Oh Impossible Fellow”
First thesis statement on reading due
Week 2
Oct 14: Calypso. 45-55
second thesis statement on reading due for A-K
Oct 16: #Lotus-Eaters & Hades
André Topia, “Intertextuality in Ulysses” 103-16
First critical précis (on Topia) due for L-Z
Oct 18: “Riverrun: James Joyce and the Ecologies of Modernism” conference at UCR
Week 3
Oct 21: # 7 Aeolus
Karen Lawrence, “Bloom in Circulation”
First critical précis (on Lawrence) due for A-K
Oct 23: # 8, 9 Lestrygonians 124-50
Second thesis-statement due for L-Z
Week 4
Oct 28: Scylla and Charybdis 151-79
Show critical review for annotated bibliography on elective article
A-K thesis statements
Oct 30: Wandering Rocks 180-209
Lawrence, “Wandering Rocks and Sirens”
L-Z thesis statements
Week 5
Nov 4: # 11, Sirens 210-39, Take-home midterm essay distributed
Nov 6: #12, Cyclops 240-83
Topia, 116-24; Will Litton, “The Passion for the Real and Joyce’s “Cyclops”
A-K thesis statements
Week 6
Nov 11: #13, Nausicaa 284-313
Vicky Mahaffey, “Ulysses & the ends of gender”
L-Z thesis statements
Nov 13: #14, Oxen of the Sun 314-49 Take-home midterm or prospectus due
Week 7
Nov 18: Circe 350-496
A-K response posting
Nov 19: OH: Confer about prospectus; required for students with late prospectus
Nov 20: Circe, Eumaeus 497-505 Late prospectus due
L-Z response posting
Week 8
Nov 25: Eumaeus & Ithaca 501-607
Nov 27: Thanksgiving--class cancelled
Week 9
Midnight, Sunday Nov 30: Everyone must email final drafts to the instructor or peer-reviewers
Dec 2: class cancelled for peer reviewing
Dec 4: Penelope 608-644
Week 10
Dec 9: Penelope & sneak peak @ Finnegans Wake
Dec 11: Final paper due, Review & distribution of certificates, Rejoyce