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ENG41640

Academic Year 2024/2025

Joyce, Ulysses (ENG41640)

Subject:
English
College:
Arts & Humanities
School:
English, Drama & Film
Level:
4 (Masters)
Credits:
10
Module Coordinator:
Assoc Professor Luca Crispi
Trimester:
Autumn
Mode of Delivery:
On Campus
Internship Module:
No
How will I be graded?
Letter grades

Curricular information is subject to change.

This module will explore the various ways in which the individual styles of selected episodes mediate the presentation and understanding of traditional novelistic functions such as plot, characterization and storytelling (as well as the book’s symbolic and thematic signification). Some critics made the narratological issues posed by the stylistic experimentation in Ulysses a central concern in Joyce studies in the 1980s. While other issues came to the fore with the advent of theory in the 1990s and thereafter, more recently historical and textual studies have refocused critical attention on the fundamental issues posed by the mediation of the book’s manifold styles.

About this Module

Learning Outcomes:

In this module you will
acquire a knowledge of the composition history of Ulysses
learn how to read the episodes of Ulysses closely
achieve an understanding of the thematic concerns and symbolic constructs of the text
develop insights into the radical nature of Joyce's aesthetic
gain a knowledge of the critical history of Ulysses
study differing critical approaches to Ulysses

Student Effort Hours:
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

0
Seminar (or Webinar)

24
Specified Learning Activities

76
Autonomous Student Learning

100
Total

200

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
Based on content and direction provided in lectures, students are encouraged to develop their close reading and critical thinking and writing skills during class discussion, presentation and assignments.

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 

Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade In Module Component Repeat Offered
Assignment(Including Essay): A midterm essay sketch on a topic of the student's choice is due. Week 10 Graded No

40

 No
Assignment(Including Essay): A final essay on a topic of the student's choice is due. Week 15 Graded No

60

 No

Carry forward of passed components
Yes
 

Remediation Type Remediation Timing
In-Module Resit Prior to relevant Programme Exam Board
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
• Peer review activities

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Feedback will provided to students face-to-face and in writing throughout the trimester both individually and as a group. Written and oral feedback will also be given on the end-of-semester essay.

Ulysses edited by Hans Walter Gabler is the core text.
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