Module Information
Course Delivery
Assessment
| Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
|---|---|---|
| Semester Assessment | Essay 5000 Words | 100% |
| Supplementary Assessment | Essay 5000 Words | 100% |
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
Demonstrate detailed knowledge of the text of Ulysses and analyse key passages thoroughly.
Situate Joyce’s novel in its relevant biographical, social, historical, and/or political contexts.
Display a sound understanding of one or more theoretical approaches to reading Ulysses.
Write in a scholarly and critically informed manner about Joyce’s novel.
Brief description
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.
Content
Session 2 – Stephen’s Morning (Chapters 1-3)
Session 3 – Bloom: Hello and Goodbye to Life (Chapters 4-6)
Session 4 – Diurnal Dublin (Chapters 7-9)
Session 5 – Across City-Space (Chapters 10-12)
Session 6 – Textual Transmogrifications (Chapters 13-14)
Session 7 – A Whole Other Scene (Chapter 15)
Session 8 – Odds and Ends (Chapters 16-17)
Session 9 – Penelope’s Pleasures (Chapter 18)
Session 10 - Revision and assessment advice
Module Skills
| Skills Type | Skills details |
|---|---|
| Creative Problem Solving | Assessing and solving problems collaboratively through discussion and exercises during seminars; addressing research problems and key critical issues through work for essay assignment. |
| Critical and analytical thinking | Advanced skills of critical reading and textual analysis developed through seminar preparation, focused seminar exercises, and research for essay assignments. |
| Professional communication | Oral communication skills developed through seminar discussions; written communication honed through work towards a substantial critical essay. |
| Subject Specific Skills | Writing skills, critical reading and reflection, and conceptual knowledge in a range of relevant fields of literary studies. |
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 7