ENGL 44526 - Community and Contemporary Irish Fiction

Institution:

University of Notre Dame

Subject:

English

Description:

EN 3480 Community and Contemporary Irish Fiction at TCD; Representations of community and belonging in contemporary Irish fiction are often read as though they were essentially the nation writ small. In this one-semester seminar, however, we will examine contemporary Irish novelists whose work resists such readings by engaging with community in diverse ways that fit less neatly (or not at all) within the nation's rhetorical framework. In support of this focus, we will emphasize a specific generation: writers who came of age in the 1960s and after, amidst Ireland's ambivalent embrace of economic and cultural internationalization. We will also examine a broader set of relations between literature and community, including critical debates about an opposition between modernization and community in contemporary Ireland.

Credits:

5.00

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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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