James Joyce Seminar Oral Report Schedule, Fall 2007
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 3 (9/06/07) -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
TOPICS:
Pre-texts of A Portrait (including Stephen Hero)
The Bildungsroman tradition -- Molly Clay
Week 4 (9/13/07) -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses
TOPICS:
Publication/textual history of Ulysses
The Gabler-Kidd Controversy (Which text of Ulysses should we read?)
TOPICS:
Critical reception of Ulysses (See Margot Norris, "A Critical History of Ulysses" [Blackboard; Course Materials; Additional Readings]
Joyce and Censorship -- Kyle Winslow
Medieval Joyce -- Aliah O'Neill
Week 6 (9/27/07) -- Ulysses -- Episodes 3 and 4
TOPICS:
"Stream of Consciousness" / Interior monologue: description, intellectual and literary backgrounds -- Christine Dougherty
Translating Joyce -- Kang Tchou
Week 7 (10/04/07) -- Ulysses -- Episodes 5 and 6
TOPICS:
Joyce and Virginia Woolf
Joyce's "Orientalism"
TOPICS:
Joyce and Journalism
Joyce and Hypertext
Joyce and Anarchism
Week 9 (10/18/07) -- Ulysses -- Episodes 9 and 10
TOPICS:
Joyce and Shakespeare
Joyce and Faulkner -- Allison Rittmayer
Joyce and Psychoanalysis -- Joey McMullen
Week 10 (10/25/07) -- Ulysses -- Episodes 11 and 12
TOPICS:
The Joyce of Music -- Jen Grant
Joyce and Nationalism
Week 11 (11/01/07) -- Ulysses -- Episodes 13 and 14
TOPICS:
Feminism and Joyce -- Chrissy Friedlander
Joyce and the Visual Arts
Week 12 (11/08/07) -- Ulysses -- Episode 15
TOPICS:
Joyce and Sado-Masochism -- Anna Juan
Joyce and Film --Andrew Tran
Joyce and Drama ("High" and "Low")
Week 13 (11/15/07) -- Ulysses -- Episodes 16 and 17
TOPICS:
Joyce and Virginia Woolf -- Rebecca Morris
Chaos Theory
Joyce and Consumer Culture
Joyce and Advertising
Joyce, Socialism, and Marxism
Week 14 (11/29/07) -- Final Meeting--Final Episode ("Penelope") and Excerpt(s) from Finnegans Wake
TOPICS:
Finnegans Wake
Ireland after Joyce
The Novel after Joyce
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"