While it would be chimrical to read fully all of Joyce's works in one semester, the ambition of this course will be to introduce to the major works, including Finnegans Wake. We will select important passages or chapters in Dubliners, Exiles, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, Finnegan's Wake, and take a number of themes as a link between all these texts: Irish nationalism and cosmopolitanism, the city, the religious problematic, estheticism , the place of women, the role of paternity, the drift toward experimental wriitng.

Bibliography:

James Joyce: Dubliners (Penguin, 1992), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Norton, 2007), Poems and Exiles (Penguin, 1992), Occasional, Critical, and Political Writing (OUP, 2000), Ulysses (OUP, 1993), Finnegans Wake (any edition).