Michael Groden - James Joyce: Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

February-March 2010

92nd St. Y, New York - Unterberg Poetry Center - Writing Program

Michael Groden - Distinguished University Professor
Department of English, The University of Western Ontario
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Course Schedule

Date Reading
February 7 Dubliners 1-6: "The Sisters," "An Encounter," "Araby," "Eveline," "After the Race," "Two Gallants"
February 14 Dubliners 7-15: "The Boarding House," "A Little Cloud," "Counterparts," "Clay," "A Painful Case," "Ivy Day in the Committee Room," "A Mother," "Grace," "The Dead"
February 21 no class
February 28 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Chapters I-III
March 7 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Chapters IV-V

Texts

Any available version of Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is fine to use.
A few editions have explanatory notes, introductions, and essays, and if you are buying a new copy
you might consider getting one of these:

Dubliners:

Oxford World's Classics, edited by Jeri Johnson (Oxford University Press, 2000)
Norton Critical Edition, edited by Margot Norris (W.W. Norton, 2006)
Penguin 20th-Century Classics, edited by Terence Brown (Penguin, 1992)
Viking Critical Library, edited by Robert Scholes and A. Walton Litz (Viking/Penguin, 1969, 2nd edition, 1996)

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man:

Oxford World's Classics, edited by Jeri Johnson (Oxford University Press, 2000)
Norton Critical Edition, edited by John Paul Riquelme (W.W. Norton, 2007)
Bedford Case Studies, edited by R.B. Kershner (Bedford/St. Martin's, 1993, 2nd edition, 2006)
Penguin 20th-Century Classics, edited by Seamus Deane (Penguin, 1992)
Viking Critical Library, edited by Chester G. Anderson (Viking/Penguin, 1968)

and (completely optional) there is a book-length set of notes to both books:

Don Gifford, Joyce Annotated: Notes for "Dubliners" and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
(2nd edition, University of California Press, 1982)