ENG 103 - Irish Literary Renaissance

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Long Island University-C W Post Campus

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Writing in the early twentieth century, social and literary critic Douglas Hyde observed that "the Irish race is at present in a most anomalous position, imitating England and yet apparently hating it. How can it produce anything good in literature, art, or institutions as long as it is actuated by motives so contradictory?" The movement now called the Irish Literary Renaissance is an attempt to resolve that contradiction; its goal was to question the influence of English literature on Irish writers, and develop a specifically Irish literature for an independent Irish nation. This course will be a writing intensive study in cultural context of the major Irish writers involved: Lady Augusta Gregory, John Millington Synge, Sean O'Casey, William Butler Yeats, and James Joyce. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.liu.edu

Phone Number:

(516) 299-2900

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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