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James Joyce: Ulysses

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  • 21 and older
  • $315
  • Online Classroom
  • 12 hours over 4 sessions

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  • $315
  • Online Classroom
  • 12 hours over 4 sessions
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What you'll learn in this literature class:

The archetypal novel of high modernism, James Joyce’s Ulysses attempts to synthesize the life of a city, the afterlives of previous literary styles, and the entirety of the Western canon as it stood in the early twentieth century. Since its original publication when it was serialized in the Little Review from March 1918 to March 1920, Ulysses has churned up debates about obscenity, obscurity, gender, sexuality, censorship, technology, urban life, money, ethnicity, good modernism, bad modernism, pop culture, high culture, the ethics of the encyclopedic, the shape of history, and the limits of literature itself.

Nominally the story of a single day in Dublin—June 16th, 1904—Ulysses adapts the structure of the Odyssey in order to follow the intertwined wanderings of Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus, the unheroic heroes of this modern epic. Joyce’s Dublin is a complexly woven tapestry of labor, desire, language, violence, birth, and death. 

In many ways, Ulysses demands to be read socially, and in terms of questions with decidedly social dimensions: What are the uses—and abuses—of modernist difficulty? How does one read a novel? And how does one read this famously forbidding experimental novel? What does Ulysses have to tell us about the strange affinities among modern politics, aesthetics, and cultural forms?

In this course, we’ll read the entirety of Ulysses, of which Joyce notoriously boasted that he wanted “to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city one day suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.” Taking this remark as our origin point, we’ll ask what, exactly Ulysses pictures—and also what we, as readers, can possibly reconstruct out of that image. 

What does it mean to read Ulysses in our current cultural moment? And why has this novel proven such fruitful ground for literary theory? We’ll pursue these questions through the text of the novel, an investigation of the world of Ulysses’s composition and reception, its immediate material and intellectual contexts, and the uses to which scholars have put this voracious experiment. Supplementary texts are likely to include selections of Derrida, Eliot, Ellmann, Freud, Kenner, Kristeva, Lacan, Pound, and Woolf.

Remote Learning

This course is available for "remote" learning and will be available to anyone with access to an internet device with a microphone (this includes most models of computers, tablets). Classes will take place with a "Live" instructor at the date/times listed below.

Upon registration, the instructor will send along additional information about how to log-on and participate in the class.

Refund Policy

  • Upon request, we will refund less 5% cancellation fee of a course up until 6 business days before its start date.
  • Students who withdraw after that point but before the first class are entitled to 75% refund or full course credit.
  • After the first class: 50% refund or 75% course credit.
  • No refunds or credits will be given after the second class.

In any event where a customer wants to cancel their enrollment and is eligible for a full refund, a 5% processing fee will be deducted from the refund amount.

Reviews of Classes at Brooklyn Institute for Social Research (29)

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  • James Joyce: Ulysses

    Reviewed by Francis D G. on 7/5/2022
    It was not easy, but I didn't expect it to be. I got some very useful insight into the book, which will help in my second reading. I will be looking for more classes taught by Professor Porte.
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Students who took the James Joyce: Ulysses class found it challenging but valuable. They gained useful insight into the book, which they believed would assist in further readings. Many students expressed a desire to take more classes with Professor Porte. One student stated, "I got some very useful insight into the book, which will help in my second reading."

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