James Joyce and the Modern Novel

Fall 2009 ENGL 1760Q S01

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Instructor: Paul B. Armstrong

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Course Description

How did James Joyce's narrative experiments change the novel as a genre? In addition to studying Joyce's major works (Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist, and Ulysses), we will read novels by important contemporaries and successors such as Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, Samuel Beckett, Salman Rushdie, Vladimir Nabokov, and Thomas Pynchon. Readings will include representative and influential samples of the Joyce criticism and well as theoretical statements about modernism and post-modernism. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. Enrollment limited.