ENGL 40508 - Heroic Literature in Modern Adaptation

Institution:

University of Notre Dame

Subject:

English

Description:

Beginning with a study of the ethos of Irish/Celtic heroic literature in its historic and cultural context, this course examines the ideological, aesthetic, and personal uses to which that material has been put by Irish writers of the past two centuries (19th and 20th centuries) writing in English and Irish. Among the authors to be studied are: Seamus Heaney, Flann O'Brien/Myles na Gopaleen, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, and Eugene Watters/Eoghan ÓTuairisc. Particular attention will be paid to shifting concepts of authenticity and the degree to which various creative artists have retained, reinterpreted, or reinvented what they perceived to be the essence of their originals. This course will interest English majors, modernists and medievalists.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.nd.edu

Phone Number:

(574) 631-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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