ENGL 90581 - Towards a World Literature: Irish Literature from Romanticism to Modernism

Institution:

University of Notre Dame

Subject:

English

Description:

This course will examine the process whereby Irish literature in the nineteenth and early twentieth century charted a path from the "national tale" of romantic fiction to the "world literature" of both the Literary Revival (associated primarily with W.B. Yeats and J.M. Synge) and the experimental modernism of Joyce. Ireland's ambivalent location as a "colony within" will be examined with a view to discussing the uneven integration of Irish culture and society into the modern world system. The relationship of Irish romanticism, Gothic literature, poetry and drama to "proto" modernities will be discussed, i.e. peripheral or vernacular modernisms traveling from the outskirts to the centre rather than the other way around. Particular emphasis will be placed on the relation of Joyce's modernism to the politics of location in an early twentieth-century Ireland on the verge of revolt. The seminar will end by relating these issues to current debates on globalization and Irish culture, as it effects literature, cinema and multi-culturalism in contemporary Ireland.

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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