BASC80165 - James Joyce’s Ulysses

Course Description

James Joyce's Ulysses: Part 2 - Episodes 12 - 18 (Cyclops - Penelope)

Ulysses incarnates the wanderings and interactions of Leopold Bloom, Molly Bloom, Stephen Dedalus and vivid others about Dublin on Bloomsday, June 16, 1904. It is quickened by Joyce’s response to Homer’s Odyssey. Joyce remarked: “The most beautiful, all-embracing theme is that of the Odyssey . It is greater, more human, than that of Hamlet , Don Quixote , Dante , Faust ....” Loosely patterned on the Odyssey , deeply resonant with it, Ulysses is a book of commonplaces and souls truths, a re-invention of language and an archaeology of meaning. It is readable, unforgettable, to be reveled in. We will explore it to the best of our abilities.

STRONGLY RECOMMENDED EDITION:

1. James Joyce. Ulysses. Vintage Classic (ISBN #978-0679722762)

Any edition that reproduces the 1934 and 1961 Vintage / Random House editions with Judge Woolsey’s decision and the three sections’ huge opening capital letters “Stately plump Buck Mulligan…,” including the Modern Library hardcover edition, is acceptable. They will match pagination. Use of the 1984 Gabler alleged “Corrected Edition” is strongly discouraged.

Notes

STRONGLY RECOMMENDED EDITION: James Joyce. Ulysses. Vintage Classic (ISBN #978-0679722762)

Any edition that reproduces the 1934 and 1961 Vintage / Random House editions with Judge Woolsey’s decision and the three sections’ huge opening capital letters “Stately plump Buck Mulligan…,” including the Modern Library hardcover edition, is acceptable.  They will match pagination. Use of the 1984 Gabler alleged “Corrected Edition” is strongly discouraged.