ENGL-UA 621 - The Irish Renaissance

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New York University

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Seeks to understand the extraordinary achievements of Irish writers in the last decade of the 19th and Department of English the first third of the 20th century. Wide readings in different genres-poetry, polemic, short story, novel, drama-that were remade by Irish writers during the tumultuous period from the fall of Charles Stuart Parnell into the early years of national government of the 1930s. Authors read include Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Lady Augusta Gregory, John Synge, Sean O'Casey, Elizabeth Bowen, and Flann O'Brien. Also considers the social and historical contexts of Ireland under the Union with Britain and after that Union was partially broken. In attempting to refine the proper lens through which to view this literature, addresses a number of salient issues, including the nature and cultural forms of Irish cultural nationalism, the violence of civil war, the social position of literature and of intellectuals in projects of national reconciliation and national identity, and the clash between revolutionary anti-imperialism and conservative Roman Catholicism, between rural and urban identities, and between provincialism and cosmopolitanism as strategies for literary self-fashioning.

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.nyu.edu

Phone Number:

(212) 998-1212

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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