Exploring Joyce's Ulysses

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’.

深入分析詹姆斯·乔伊斯经典小说《尤利西斯》的结构、主题和语言。

• 1Discuss the narrative form, structure and literary styles used in Joyce's Ulysses
• 2Understand the relation of Ulysses to its various contexts, cultural, social and political
• 3Critique Ulysses in relation to artistic and aesthetic agendas, including modernism and postcolonialism.