ENGL 90534 - British and Irish Modernism

Institution:

University of Notre Dame

Subject:

English

Description:

This course will cover the main writers and themes of British and Irish literary modernism from c. 1914 to c. 1939. While we will be reading some of the more familiar 'English' modernists - Lawrence, Eliot, Woolf, Forster - we will also be paying attention to developments during this period in Ireland, Scotland and Wales, particularly in the realm of what we might call 'vernacular modernisms'. We will look at some work by Scots Hugh MacDiarmid and Lewis Grassic Gibbon; Welsh writers Caradoc Evans and Dylan Thomas; and, with some Joyce and Yeats, we will read Patrick Kavanagh and Flann O'Brien. Given the condensed nature of this summer course, I will expect students to similarly intensify their reading, so that the material is read well ahead of time. Participation in discussion; demonstration of close-reading ability; a final paper of fifteen pages - these will constitute the grading criteria for this course.

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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