Class Description
In the second part of this class, we'll continue our journey through the novel (Chapters 11-18) and Dublin. Beginning with the "Sirens" episode, Joyce turns our attention to confined public spaces in the city—a pub, a hospital room, a brothel—before returning us to Bloom's home. In the finale, Molly Bloom's mental landscape expands the novel's geography to include Gibraltar, a seemingly odd choice of location that nevertheless encapsulates the novel's thematic concerns about Dublin and its citizens.
Susan Bazargan is an Emerita Professor of English and a James Joyce scholar.
Materials List
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Required:
Recommended:
- Don Gifford, Ulysses Annotated. U of Calif. Press, 1988. ISBN: 978-0520253971
- Robert Nicholson, The Ulysses Guide. New Island Books, 2019. ISBN: 1848407440
First Reading
- Please read Chapter 11 of Ulysses.
Cost and Registration
8 sessions, $268 ($241 for Newberry members, seniors, and students). Learn about becoming a member.
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