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Wednesday, November 12

• "The Twentieth Century" (anthology 1991)
  • "Inside the Whale Inside: A Hypertextual Journey into the Belly of Modernism," by Robert Scholes, whom you may have seen give a lecture on Montage and Modern Art at Grinnell last year.

• James Joyce, "Eveline" (anthology 2277) and "Clay" (anthology 2280) from Dubliners (1914)
  • The Modern World, which produces excellent author pages, has an extensive one devoted to Joyce.

  • R.L. Callahan of Temple maintains Work in Progress, an excellent Joyce site including articles, maps of Joyce's Dublin, and much more.

  • Edward J. Maloney and David F. Fanning of Ohio State maintain the James Joyce Resource Center, with a bibliography of books, a timeline, and "casebooks" of references to Joyce scholarship grouped by critical approach.

  • Yet another very good site: The James Joyce Portal

Prepare a comment or question for the post-lecture discussion.

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Friday, November 14

Again I will be away at a meeting today. (As I said in class, I do apologize for the coincidental proximity of my two absences.) Everyone meets in small groups, and everyone except group leaders writes responses. Seminar A groups are led by student #4. Seminar B groups are led by student #1.

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Monday, November 17

• Joyce, "The Dead" (anthology 2284) from Dubliners (1914)

Linking Passage Responses: Group VII

Note: in class, I will talk about Joyce's Ulysses and point you to resources for reading it. Check out The Internet Ulysses in advance if you like.

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Wednesday, November 19

• Speeches on Irish independence (anthology 2233)

• William Butler Yeats, "Easter 1916" (1916, anthology 2249) and "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" (1922, anthology 2249)

Linking Passage Responses: Group VIII

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Friday, November 21

Seminar B (Groups V, VI, VII, and VIII) meets in FINE 243, and Group VIII submits responses by Thursday night. Seminar A meets in small groups, each of which will be led by member #2. All other members of Groups I, II, III, and IV submit responses by Thursday night.

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Monday, November 24

• T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1917, anthology 2347) and companion readings, "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1919, anthology 2374)
  • Prufrock and Other Observations, a Bartleby e-text of Eliot's 1917 volume of poetry

  • The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism, a Bartleby e-text of Eliot's 1920 work.

Linking Passage Responses: Group I

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Wednesday, November 26

• Virginia Woolf, first part of Mrs. Dalloway (1925, anthology 2387-2439)
  • Virginia Woolf on Women and Fiction -- A Distance Learning Project (Joel Rich and Nancy Henderson) was originally a course page for a distance-learning project; it is now an archive of discussions, a brief chronology and primary bibliography, and excerpts from some of the women's works Woolf discusses.

  • This collaborative site on Mrs. Dalloway has a lot of material that can help orient you in the novel.

Linking Passage Responses: Group II

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THANKSGIVING BREAK

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Monday, December 1

• Woolf, rest of Mrs. Dalloway (1925, anthology 2439-2485)

Linking Passage Responses: Group III

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Wednesday, December 3

• Woolf, from A Room of One's Own (1929, anthology 2486)

Linking Passage Responses: Group IV

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Friday, December 5

Seminar A (Groups I, II, III, and IV) meets in FINE 243, and Group I submits responses by Thursday night. Seminar B meets in small groups, each of which will be led by member #2. All other members of Groups V, VI, VII, and VIII submit responses by Thursday night.

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Monday, December 8

PAPER PROSPECTUS DUE
FOR STUDENTS WRITING PAPERS

• Samuel Beckett, Krapp's Last Tape (1958, anthology 2771)
  • Apmonia: a site for Samuel Beckett by The Modern World, has an impressive array of top-notch information available from its long front page, including a biography, articles, reviews, notes on productions, and an image gallery.

  • The University of California at Santa Barbara hosts The Samuel Beckett Endpage, a strong site although probably second to Apmonia.

Linking Passage Responses: Group V

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Wednesday, December 10

Beckett, Endgame (1958)

Linking Passage Responses: Group VI

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Friday, December 12

Last day: wrapping up, questions about the final paper or exam, weeping.

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Wednesday, December 17

FINAL EXAM AT 9:00 AM
OR FINAL PAPER DUE BY 2:00 PM

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