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 (9/5/11)

TOPICS:

Joyce's Poetry

Week 3 (9/12/11) -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

TOPICS:

Pre-texts of A Portrait (including Stephen Hero)

The Bildungsroman tradition

Week 4 (9/19/11) -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses

TOPICS:

Publication/textual history of Ulysses

 

Week 5 (9/26/11) -- Ulysses -- Episodes 1 and 2

TOPICS:

The Textual Controversies of Ulysses -- Kate Berner

Critical reception of Ulysses (See Margot Norris, "A Critical History of Ulysses" [Blackboard; Course Materials; Additional Readings]

Joyce and Censorship

Medieval Joyce

Week 6 (10/3/11) -- Ulysses -- Episodes 3 and 4

TOPICS:

"Stream of Consciousness" / Interior monologue: description, intellectual and literary backgrounds

Translating Joyce -- Caroline Leeolou

Postructural Joyce

TOPICS:

Joyce and Judaism

Joyce and Virginia Woolf

Joyce's "Orientalism"

Week 8 (10/24/11) -- Ulysses--Episodes 7 and 8


TOPICS:

Joyce and Journalism

Joyce and Switzerland -- Paul Bossidy

Joyce and Hypertext

Joyce and Anarchism

Week 9 (10/31/11) -- Ulysses -- Episodes 9 and 10

TOPICS:

Joyce and Shakespeare -- Zach Mykulak

Joyce and Advertising -- Vanessa Charlton




Week 10 (11/7/11) -- Ulysses -- Episodes 11 and 12

TOPICS:

The Joyce of Music -- Mike Kurban

Joyce and Nationalism -- Will Sawyer

TOPICS:

Joyce and Faulkner -- Schuyler Rooke

Week 12 (11/21/11) -- Ulysses -- Episode 15

TOPICS:

Joyce and Sado-Masochism -- Catrina Joos

Joyce and Consumer Culture

Feminism and Joyce -- Alli Clymer

Joyce and Psychoanalysis

Joyce and Film