Ulysses

In this seminar, we read the highly influential and notoriously controversial novel

Ulysses (1922) by Irish writer James Joyce (1882-1941).

We do close close readings of selected passages from all 18 episodes. 

You will learn:

– basic techniques of reading narrative fiction.

You will become familiar with the inter-textual entanglements of Ulysses

– and Homer’s Odyssey,

– and Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

You will get profound knowledge about:

- the literary movement of European Modernism,

- and its socio-cultural and political ramifications,

- for example, the Irish fight against British colonization, the movement of the Celtic Revival.

You will learn how to work with:

- importants concepts and terms of literary, aesthetic, and cultural theory.