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This is something I’m teaching right now:
ENGL 534: FORM & TECHNIQUE IN FICTION
PUNCTUATION!
COURSE DESCRIPTION
In this class that focuses on punctuation—take a deep breath now—you will be writing a novel. A complete first draft of a novel: in this class. Yay!
COURSE GOALS
Through this class, you should expect to achieve the following goals:
- Develop a complex and sophisticated use of punctuation;
- Read Ulysses;
- Write a novella[1]
REQUIRED TEXTS
Gabler edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses
Blake Butler—
As of yesterday, Ulysses is officially a work of public domain. Now what? [UPDATE: Or not… at least in America. (via Edward Champion)]
Power Quote: James Joyce
If you would like to read again, or (I’m hoping) for the first time, an excerpt from the penultimate chapter “Ithaca” in Ulysses, wherein Stephen (of A Portrait of an artist as a young man) escorts a drunken Leopold Bloom home, click after the break.
