These two brilliant sons of Dublin are without question among the most influential writers in modern English. It is a very strong point in our program that we can all read and discuss these authors in the original language. I have the following plan: Shaw: Mrs. Warren’s Profession (play); The Devil’s Disciple (play) Cashel Byron’s Profession (novel). Mrs. Warren is a modern classic, but The Devil’s Disciple is rarely taught at the university level, and the brilliant Cashel Byron is only a name, if that, to most modern students of British literature. We’ll change that here. Joyce: from Dubliners, “Ivy Day in the Committee Room,” “The Dead,” “An Encounter;” from Ulysses, “Proteus,” “Lestrygonians,” “Night-town,” “Penelope” (Molly Bloom). Again, “Ivy Day” is usually omitted in American universities as “too local” and “Penelope” as “too pornographic.”

GB Shaw and JA Joyce, these two brilliant sons of Dublin are without question among the most brilliant and influential writers in modern English. It is a very strong point in our program that we can all read and discuss these authors in the originail language.

Texts:
Jordan, Neil Michael Collins (film)

Joyce, JA “Eveline”
“Counterparts”
“The Dead”
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ch. 1

Shaw, GB Cashel Byron’s Profession (novel)
Saint Joan act I
To True To Be Good act I
The Devil’s Disciple (entire)