Approaches to Teaching Joyce's Ulysses
Editor(s): Kathleen McCormick, Erwin R. Steinberg
Pages: xii & 178 pp.
Published: 1993
ISBN: 9780873527125 (paperback)
ISBN: 9780873527118 (hardcover)
"For anyone teaching the novel today for the first time, [this collection] has a good many useful tips, excellent directions as to how to use current resources, and some helpful aids."
James Joyce Literary Supplement
"Approaches to Teaching Joyce's Ulysses gives us all some wonderful ideas to steal."
James Joyce Quarterly
"This is an excellent volume and those who are not teachers will learn as much from it as those who are."
Review of English Studies
Ulysses is generally recognized as the most influential of all modernist literary texts, and seven decades after its publication the novel continues to fascinate, tease, and engage students. The essays collected in this Approaches volume offer suggestions for teaching Ulysses in courses ranging from first-year literature surveys to graduate-level seminars.
The volume, like others in the MLA's Approaches to Teaching World Literature series, is divided into two parts. The first part, "Materials," reviews editions of Ulysses (as well as manuscripts and prepublication materials), biographical resources, critical works, and audiovisual materials. The sixteen essays in the second part, "Approaches," discuss the aesthetic and political backgrounds against which Ulysses was written and examine the changing perspectives from which it has been read. The book includes course syllabi and essay assignments, conversion formulas for two recent United States editions of Ulysses, and several adaptations of Joyce's schema of Homeric correspondence for classroom use.
Table of Contents
Approaches to Teaching Joyce's Ulysses
PART 1: MATERIALS
Kathleen McCormick and Erwin R. Steinberg
Editions
Manuscripts and Prepublication Material
Biographical Material
Textual Aids
Cultural and Aesthetic Contexts
Critical Works
- Audiovisual Aids
- William S. Brockman
PART 2: APPROACHES
Introduction
Backgrounds
Joyce and Modernism
Hugh Kenner
Political Contexts for Ulysses
Cheryl Herr and Chris Connell
Culture, Politics, and Ideology in the Reception of Ulysses
Jeffrey Segall
Theoretical Approaches in Practice
Feminist Approaches to Teaching Ulysses
Bonnie Kime Scott
Consciousness as Conflict: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Teaching Ulysses
Sheldon Brivic
Approaching Ulysses through the New Historicism
Mary Lowe-Evans
Understanding Ulysses through Irish and British Popular Culture
Joseph Heininger
Reading Ulysses within the History of Its Production and Reception
Kathleen McCormick
Teaching for the (W)Holes
Richard Pearce
Searching for Lost Keys: Epic and Linguistic Dislocations in Ulysses
Scott W. Klein
Point of View, the Narrator(s), and the Stream of Consciousness
Erwin R. Steinberg
Discovering Ulysses: The "Immersive" Experience
Weldon Thornton
Successful Classroom Strategies and Techniques
Some Points of Departure for Teaching Ulysses
Morris Beja
The Importance of Playing Earnest: The Stakes of Reading Ulysses
Vicki Mahaffey
Helping Students Read Ulysses
Austin Briggs
A Collective Exploration of Ulysses
James J. Murphy
Appendix
Conversion Formulas for Last Two US Editions of Ulysses
Works Cited
Index
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