Gwybodaeth Modiwlau

James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922) is a brilliant, challenging book, a novel with which any serious student of modern literature will wish to come to grips. This module offers students an opportunity to read, discuss, and study Joyce’s magnum opus in detail, chapter-by-chapter, with expert guidance. It is designed to be accessible for absolute beginners as well as enlightening for readers already familiar with Joyce’s text. A carefully curated, manageable programme of supplementary reading will introduce students to a range of critical and theoretical approaches – including psychoanalysis, feminism, deconstruction, and postcolonialism – that throw light on Ulysses’s dense web of meaning. The module will also situate the novel in its social, historical, and literary-historical contexts. However, the primary focus is upon reading the text, closely and attentively, from beginning to end.