Office: Vaughan Lit 231

Office Hours: WF 1:00-2:30 pm; and by appointment

Office Phone: 577-1424

e-mail: rickard@bucknell.edu

WWW homepage: http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rickard

INTERNET RESOURCES: You can find links to Joyce resources on the internet at http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rickard/Joyce.html

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ASSIGNMENTS:

Each student will be responsible for:

• Making at least two oral presentations to the class, one of which will be a background report on a related text, a term, a theme in the primary texts, a critical approach to Joyce, a bibliographical problem, etc. The other will involve serving as "discussion leader" for one episode of Ulysses, which will require you to prepare for the class in which we will discuss that episode by reading the primary text carefully, checking the biographical sources for relevant contextual information, going over Joyce's "schemas," letters, and other relevant comments on the episode, and perusing a couple of critical articles. Please remember that the guidelines for making effective oral presentations include preparing in advance, finding interesting things to say, talking directly to your audience, and especially, not going way over or under your suggested time limit (in this case, approximately 15 minutes).

• Preparing a detailed explication of one page of Ulysses and presenting it orally to me in my office. This explication should involve such specific things as pronoun references, syntax, unusual and foreign words, allusions, geographical references, and any cruxes the passage involves. For this assignment you may choose any one page of the "Proteus" episode. This report will be presented during the week of September 27 - September 30 (i.e., before the October 3 meeting).

• Writing a paper (7-10 pages) on a critical problem or issue in "The Dead" and/or A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. This paper will be due October 6, and research is not required.  I will discuss topic choices with you early in the semester.

• Writing a longer (approximately 15-page) term paper on a topic of your choice (I will be happy to make suggestions). You should begin thinking about your topic as soon as possible. You must hand in or e-mail me a 150-200 word proposal describing your proposed project on or before November 14.

• Writing a weekly response paper due by 9:00 pm every Sunday. Please refer to the web page on "Weekly Response Papers " for clarification and more information about this important assignment.

• Most weeks, an "extra reading" entry will be placed on the syllabus. Each undergraduate student must pick one of these extra entries to address in his or her weekly writing ONCE during the semester (this will be part of the weekly writing grade): briefly summarize the extra reading's main points, discuss your sense of its usefulness or uselessness, and ask at least one question that you would like to discuss concerning this extra reading. Any additional "extra reading" entries will earn extra credit. Graduate students must turn in THREE responses to extra readings in the course of the semester; one of these responses must also include presentation of the extra reading essay to the class.