James Joyce Seminar Oral Report Schedule, Fall 2009
Oral reports should take approximately 10-15 minutes, with some time afterwards for questions and discussion. Please do not allow presentations to run way over the allotted time; an over-long presentation is almost always a poorly-organized presentation. You may choose your own topic or sign up for one of those that I've listed (though you should clear your ideas for presentations with me). You should meet with me about the topic and do some research to prepare for your presentation. Topics may concern biographical, political, cultural, artistic, psychological, or philosophical questions. Feel free to prepare a brief handout or a PowerPoint presentation to accompany your oral report. Please inform your colleagues about the principal sources you used in preparing your presentation.
These topic ideas are meant to serve as suggestions for oral report topics. Often, good reports come out of particular students' interests as they may relate to the topic of the seminar or the individual student's plan of studies. Please feel free to suggest other interesting topics that occur to you.
When you have decided on a topic, please e-mail me and I will reserve it for you -- first come, first served.
Week 2 (9/3/09)
TOPICS:
Joyce's Poetry
Week 3 (9/10/09) -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
TOPICS:
Pre-texts of A Portrait (including Stephen Hero)
The Bildungsroman tradition -- Caitlin Mawhinney
Week 4 (9/17/09) -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses
TOPICS:
Publication/textual history of Ulysses
TOPICS:
The Textual Controversies of Ulysses (Which text of Ulysses should we read?) -- Ben Cunningham
Critical reception of Ulysses (See Margot Norris, "A Critical History of Ulysses" [Blackboard; Course Materials; Additional Readings]
Joyce and Censorship
Medieval Joyce
Week 6 (10/1/09) -- Ulysses -- Episodes 3 and 4
TOPICS:
"Stream of Consciousness" / Interior monologue: description, intellectual and literary backgrounds
Translating Joyce -- Annie Leister
Postructural Joyce -- How have postructuralist thinkers used Joyce to articulate their theories? Why is Joyce apparently so compatible with postructuralist theory? -- Elizabeth Walpole
Week 7 (10/08/09) -- Ulysses -- Episodes 5 and 6
TOPICS:
Joyce and Judaism
Joyce and Virginia Woolf
Joyce's "Orientalism"
TOPICS:
Joyce and Journalism
Joyce and Hypertext
Joyce and Anarchism
Week 9 (10/22/09) -- Ulysses -- Episodes 9 and 10
TOPICS:
Joyce and Shakespeare --
Joyce and Faulkner -- Pat Henry
Week 10 (10/29/09) -- Ulysses -- Episodes 11 and 12
TOPICS:
The Joyce of Music -- Dan Carstens
Joyce and Nationalism
Week 11 (11/05/09) -- Ulysses -- Episodes 13 and 14
TOPICS:
Joyce and Consumer Culture
Joyce and Advertising
Week 12 (11/12/09) -- Ulysses -- Episode 15
TOPICS:
Joyce and Psychoanalysis -- Kathryn Sutton
Joyce and Sado-Masochism
Joyce and Film -- Michael Furman
Feminism and Joyce -- Rachel Burris
Week 13 (11/19/09) -- Ulysses -- Episodes 16 and 17
TOPICS:
Joyce and the Visual Arts -- Kelcey Coffin
Joyce, Socialism, and Marxism -- Lindsay Pollock
Week 14 (12/3/09) -- Final Meeting--Final Episode ("Penelope") and Excerpt(s) from Finnegans Wake
TOPICS:
Finnegans Wake -- Harrison Fischer
Ireland after Joyce
The Novel after Joyce -- Hilary Umbreit
Ancillary texts = Exiles, Joyce's Poems, Critical Writings, and Speeches
Joycean influence(s)--Joyce and other authors (Nietzsche, Henri Bergson, William Blake, Yeats, Samuel Beckett, Faulkner, Woolf, Freud, et al)
Joyce and Italy, Switzerland, or Paris
Joyce's reading -- especially the "Trieste Library"
Joyce and drama -- "high" and "low"