Teaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First Century, livre ebook

A guide for today’s classrooms, this collection from leading Joyce scholars explores innovative pedagogical approaches to the works of this often-challenging writer

Teaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First Century presents examples of bold, innovative pedagogical techniques instructors have used to adapt the study of Joyce’s work for the contemporary classroom. Leading Joyce scholars share approaches that go beyond the traditional university lecture hall to include experiences teaching high school students, senior citizens, art students, book club members, and people in prisons.

The strategies in this inspirational volume range from class discussions to creating art and music to walking city streets. Works examined include the complex Finnegans Wake and the influential modernist milestones Ulysses and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. While Joyce is often viewed as an essential and foundational author of Irish literature, contributors to this volume argue that the spirit of Joyce’s writing is global, and they offer suggestions for teaching these works in an international context.

Students are often daunted by the perceived difficulty and inaccessibility of Joyce, but this volume helps both new and experienced teachers of Joyce make the writer’s texts understandable, relatable, and even fun. These authors argue that reading Joyce helps develop skills in holding and interrogating opposing ideas, skills that are essential in navigating the modern academic and political landscape. In grappling with Joyce, students will recognize his writing as relevant and urgent.

List of Figures

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Barry Devine and Ellen Scheible

I. Curricular Joyce

1. Teaching Joyce’s Portrait to High School Students

Barbara M. Hoffmann

2. “. . . the real Oxford manner”: Teaching Dubliners on the Foundation Year

Lloyd Meadhbh Houston

3. Teaching Joyce’s Backstories

Julieann Veronica Ulin

4. Black Lives and Irish Lives: Teaching and Reading Deesha Philyaw and Joyce in 2021

Mary M. Burke

5. To Cause Students to Stop in Wonder: Using/Teaching Popular Culture in Joyce

Garry Leonard

6. Reading (and Loving) Ulysses While Black

Zoë L. Henry

7. Decolonial Pedagogy and Teaching Joyce in a Liberal Arts College Classroom

Shinjini Chattopadhyay

8. Eating with Joyce: Ulysses and the Cultural Discourses That Shape Personal Nutrition

Talia Abu

9. Teaching the Wakean Sentence

Paul Fagan

10. Teaching Finnegans Wake: Reading, Performing, and Creating

Gregory Erickson

11. Preparing to Teach Exiles

A. Nicholas Fargnoli

II. Extracurricular Joyce

12. Teaching Joyce’s Poetry

Margot Norris

13. Teaching Ulysses in Nonacademic Spaces

Jonathan Goldman

14. “At their joggerfry”: Joyce, Dublin, and City-as-Text

Greg Winston

15. Teaching Art Through the Prism of Ulysses

Robert Berry

16. Teaching Dubliners in Prison

Michael Patrick Gillespie

List of Contributors

Index