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Exploring Joyce's Ulysses (ENGL40028)
HonoursPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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March
Overview
| Availability | March |
|---|---|
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This subject explores the greatest and most influential literary work of art of the twentieth-century: James Joyce’s Ulysses. Through seminars and class discussion, we will embark on a close reading of the eighteen episodes of the novel, each of which has a distinctive style, structure and form. The subject will highlight the humour of the novel, its use of parody and play, as well as its celebrated deployment of stream-of-consciousness technique. It will assess Joyce’s rewriting of Homer’s Odyssey, as part of its ‘mythic method’, and how its elaborate textual and literary architecture tells one day in the life of a Jewish Dubliner more exhaustively and intimately than any other act of literary expression.
It will also highlight the various contexts of the novel – Irish, European and global – and its deep involvement with the politics of its era, including nationalism, imperialism, and ideas of race and gender. Finally, this subject will locate Ulysses within development of the modern novel and the artistic, literary and intellectual revolution known as ‘modernism’.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Discuss the narrative form, structure and literary styles used in Joyce's Ulysses
- Understand the relation of Ulysses to its various contexts, cultural, social and political
- Critique Ulysses in relation to artistic and aesthetic agendas, including modernism and postcolonialism.
Generic skills
- Ability to apply new research skills and critical methods to a field of inquiry
- Demonstrated critical awareness and the ability to shape and strengthen arguments
- Effective and articulate communication of arguments and ideas, both in writing and verbally to others.
Last updated: 6 February 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Recommended background knowledge
Reading of Joyce’s other works, especially Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 6 February 2024
Assessment
| Description | Timing | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
Written report
| At the end of the second week | 20% |
Researching/ Literary Critical Project (for example essay or poster – in consultation)
| Submitted within one month of end of the subject | 80% |
| Hurdle requirement: 1. Attendance hurdle requirement: This subject has a minimum requirement of 80% attendance at tutorials, seminars, or workshops. | During the teaching period | N/A |
| Hurdle requirement: 2. Late Penalty and Assessment hurdle requirement: Assessment submitted late without an approved extension will be penalised at five per cent (5%) of the possible marks available for the assessment task per day or part thereof. All pieces of assessment must be submitted to pass the subject. Each submitted assessment must be complete, constitute a genuine attempt to address the requirements of the task and will not be accepted after 20 University business days from the original assessment due date without written approval. | Throughout the semester | N/A |
Last updated: 6 February 2024
Dates & times
- March
Coordinator Ronan McDonald Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total 40 hours: 14 x 2hr seminars and 4 x 3hr workshops over the 4 week intensive period. Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 11 March 2024 to 8 April 2024 Last self-enrol date 15 March 2024 Census date 5 April 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 19 April 2024 Assessment period ends 10 May 2024 March contact information
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Last updated: 6 February 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
James Joyce, Ulysses (1922) [Students Edition ed. Declan Kiberd] (London: Penguin, 1992)
- Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
This subject is available to students studying at the University from eligible overseas institutions on exchange and study abroad. Students are required to satisfy any listed requirements, such as pre- and co-requisites, for enrolment in the subject.
Last updated: 6 February 2024