Oral reports should take approximately 10-15 minutes, with some time afterwards for questions and discussion. Try not to allow presentations to run way over the allotted time; an over-long presentation is almost always a poorly-organized presentation. Speak clearly and coherently. 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 to accompany your presentation (e.g., a bibliography or chronology).

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.

Week 3 (9/11/02) - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

REPORT: Pre-texts of A Portrait (including Stephen Hero)

The Bildungsroman tradition

 

Week 4 (9/18/02) - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses

REPORT: Publication history of Ulysses

 

Week 5 (9/25/02) - Ulysses--Episodes 1 and 2

REPORT: Critical reception of Ulysses -- Stephanie Erickson

Joyce and Censorship

 

Week 6 (10/2/02) - Ulysses --Episodes 3 and 4

REPORT: Joyce's method of composition AND/OR textual/editing problems and controversies

"Stream of Consciousness" / Interior monologue: description, history, intellectual and literary backgrounds -- Kacy O'Brien

 

Week 7 (10/9/02) - Ulysses--Episodes 5-7

REPORT: Joyce and Psychoanalysis

Joyce and "Orientalism"

 

Week 8 (10/16/02) - Ulysses--Episodes 7-9

REPORT: Joyce and Shakespeare -- Brad Feuling

Joyce and the Law

 

Week 9 (10/23/02) - Ulysses--Episodes 10-12

REPORT: The Joyce of Music -- David Meilleur

Joyce and Nationalism -- Kevin Kuck

 

Week 10 (10/30/02) - Ulysses--Episodes 13 and 14

REPORT: Joyce and the Visual Arts

Feminism and Joyce -- Lee Baumes

Joyce and the Popular Press -- Helen Hunt

 

Week 11 (11/6/02) - Ulysses--Episode 15

REPORT: Joyce and Sado-Masochism -- Katie Hayes

Joyce and the Popular Stage -- Sarah Ruegger

Joyce and Anarchism -- Jolene Hart

 

Week 12 (11/13/02) - Ulysses--Episodes 16 and 17

REPORT: Joyce and Literary Theory -- Blaire Zeiders

Postcolonial Joyce -- Eileen Daly

Joyce and science/physics/chaos theory

 

Week 13 (11/20/02) - Ulysses--Final Episode ("Penelope")

REPORT: Joyce and Advertising -- Allison Kurtz

Joyce and Film -- Aaron DeRosa

 

Week 14 (12/4/02) - Final Meeting--Excerpt(s) from Finnegans Wake

REPORT: Finnegans Wake -- Melissa Farrar

 

 

Ancillary texts = Exiles. 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 hypertext

Textual criticism or editing, esp. genetic criticism

Or other topics of your choosing . . .