Reading James Joyce's Ulysses with Michael Groden


COURSE PAGES: Course Home Page and Schedule - Ulysses Reading List - Bibliography - Joyce on the Web
– – –

Michael Groden's Home Page - Email Michael Groden
– – –
NOTES ON  ULYSSES: Main Page - 1. Telemachus - 2. Nestor - 3. Proteus - 4. Calypso - 5. Lotus Eaters - 6. Hades - 7. Aeolus - 8. Lestrygonians - 9. Scylla and Charybdis - 10. Wandering Rocks - 11. Sirens - 12. Cyclops - 13. Nausicaa - 14. Oxen of the Sun - 15. Circe - 16. Eumaeus - 17. Ithaca - 18. Penelope - characters from Dubliners or A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man who reappear in Ulysses

Reading James Joyce's Ulysses

April-June 2009

location: 109 Front St. East (party room on top floor of Phase 2)
(southeast corner of Front and Jarvis Sts.;
across Jarvis St. from the St. Lawrence Market)

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

offered in conjunction with Classical Pursuits

Texts

James Joyce. Ulysses. Edited by Hans Walter Gabler. Vintage 1986, 1993

(optional) Harry Blamires. The New Bloomsday Book. 3rd ed. Routledge, 1996
(optional) Don Gifford with Robert J. Seidman. “Ulysses” Annotated. Revised and expanded edition. University of California Press, 1988 (reprinted in a "20th Anniversary Edition," 2008)

Course Schedule

Date Reading (Ulysses page numbers refer to the Gabler edition)
April 5 Introduction + Episodes 1-3: Telemachus, pp. 3-19; Nestor, pp. 20-30; Proteus, pp. 31-42
April 19 Episodes 4-6: Calypso, pp. 45-57; Lotus Eaters, pp. 58-71; Hades, pp. 72-95
April 26 Episodes 7-9: Aeolus, pp. 96-123; Lestrygonians, pp.124-150; Scylla and Charybdis, pp. 151-179
May 10 Episodes 10-14: Wandering Rocks, pp. 180-209; Sirens, pp. 210-239; Cyclops, pp. 240-283; Nausicaa, pp. 284-313; Oxen of the Sun, pp. 314-349
May 24 Episode 15: Circe, pp. 350-497
June 7 Episodes 16-18: Eumaeus, pp. 501-543; Ithaca, pp. 544-607; Penelope, pp. 608-644

To see the Notes on Ulysses,
click on the Main Page link in the box at the top
or on a specific episode name there or in the Course Schedule.

We thank Metropolitan Toronto Condominium Corporation No. 1385 - The New Times Square® - for their support of this course.