Focus 2812 - FOCUS: Literary Culture of Modern Ireland II

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Washington University in St Louis

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Description:

This course explores the intersection of literature and culture in Ireland from the establishment of the Fianna Fail government of de Valera in 1932, through the lean years of the 1940s to '70s, to the economic boom of the Celtic Tiger in the 1990s and beyond. To appreciate this small nation's rocky road to a successful entrance into the European Union, economic security, and national confidence, we closely read how Ireland's rich and diverse literature casts a cold but feeling eye on its hard-earned independence and fraught nationalism. For the fiction, poetry, and drama of Ireland not only mirrors but often moves the story of this nation's growth and transformation over the decades of economic, social, and political strife.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.wustl.edu

Phone Number:

(314) 935-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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