For ENGL 626 -- Graduate Students Only

In ENGL 626, you must complete all assignments required of undergraduate students, only better: weekly writings, formal papers, and oral presentations should be deeper and more extensive. As noted on the syllabus, "Graduate students must turn in three responses to extra readings in the course of the semester," rather than one, as required of undergradautes; you must present one of these articles to the class (see below). Please feel free to bring in material from your other courses, including any theoretical interests. Weekly writings must be five, rather than three, pages at a minimum, and graduate students will also write a longer final essay (approximately 20 pages).

All graduate students must prepare one additional oral presentation for ENGL 626. For this no more than ten minute presentation, you will read a critical article listed as an "Extra Reading" on the syllabus, summarize it in clear and comprehensible terms for your graduate student peers but also (and crucially) for your undergraduate peers in the class. Follow your summary with a critique of the essay, arguing for or against its point of view, using clear evidence from Joyce's texts, other critical essays, and so on to support or refute the argument you have read. This presentation will take the place of one of your three weekly writing entries responding to the extra reading -- i.e., no need to write a weekly writing entry or response paper for this assignment.

Essays to choose from:

September 3: Kevin Whelan, "The Memories of 'The Dead'"

September 17: Garry Leonard, "When a Fly Gets in Your I: The City, Modernism, and Aesthetic Theory in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" -- Elizabeth Walpole

September 24: Michael Groden, "Before and After: The Manuscripts in Textual and Genetic Criticism of Ulysses"

October 8: Garry Leonard, "James Joyce and Popular Culture"

October 15: Patrick McGee, "Machines, Empire, and the Wise Virgins: Cultural Revolution in 'Aeolus'" or Kimberly J. Devlin, “’I saw that picture somewhere’: Tracking the Symptom of the Sisters in Lazarus"

October 22: Hugh Kenner, "The Arranger"

October 29: Jennifer Wicke, "Joyce and Consumer Culture" -- Caitlin Mawhinney

November 5: Vicki Mahaffey, "Ulysses and the End of Gender"

November 12: Maud Ellmann, "The Ghosts of Ulysses"

November 19: Jacques Derrida, "Ulysses Gramaphone: Hear say yes in Joyce" -- Pat Henry

December 3: Ewa Ziarek, "The Female Body, Technology, and Memory in 'Penelope'"

Henry Staten, “The Decomposing Form of Joyce’s Ulysses” -- Lindsey Pollock