For ENGL 626 -- Graduate Students Only

In ENGL 626, you must complete all assignments required of undergraduate students, only better: journal entries, papers, and oral presentations should be deeper and more extensive. As noted on the syllabus, "Graduate students must respond to three of [the weekly] extra readings in their journals." Bring in material from your other courses, including any theoretical interests. Graduate students will also write a longer final essay (15-20 pages).

All graduate students must prepare one additional oral presentation for ENGL 626. For this five to ten minute (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.

Essays to choose from (with some sense of their approaches):

September 13: 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"

September 20: Derek Attridge, "Reading Joyce" -- Kang Tchou

October 4: Cheryl Herr, "Art and Life, Nature and Culture, Ulysses"

October 11: Wolfgang Iser, "Patterns of Communication in Joyce's Ulysses,

October 25: Emer Nolan, "State of the Art: Joyce and Postcolonialism" -- Christine Dougherty

November 1: Vicki Mahaffey, "Ulysses and the End of Gender" -- Molly Clay

November 8: Maud Ellmann, "The Ghosts of Ulysses" -- Rebecca Morris

November 15: Jacques Derrida, "Ulysses Gramaphone: Hear say yes in Joyce" -- Allison Rittmayer

November 29: Ewa Ziarek, "The Female Body, Technology, and Memory in 'Penelope'," in James Joyce's Ulysses: A Casebook, ed. Derek Attridge, pp. 103-128 (On Reserve)