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3.00 Credits
An exciting introduction to Celtic literature and culture, this course introduces the thrilling sagas, breathtaking legends and prose tales of Ireland and Wales. Readings include battles, heroic deeds, feats of strength and daring and dilemma faced by the warrior heroes of the Celts. Celtic Heroic Literature, which requires no previous knowledge of Irish or Welsh, studies the ideology, belief system and concerns of the ancient Celtic peoples as reveled in their saga literature. By examining the hero's function in society, students investigate the ideological concerns of a society undergoing profound social transformation and religious conversion to Christianity and the hero's role as a conduit for emotional and social distress. Among the heroes to be studied in depth are: Cu Chulainn, Lug, St. Patrick and the king-heroes. Wisdom literature, archaeological and historical evidence will also be considered in this course. No prior knowledge of Irish required. All texts provided in English.
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Diverse perspectives on Irish and British history and literature provide a frame for discussing violence and social change, sexuality, economics, and politics in novels written in Ireland and Britain during the last half of the 19th century.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed as an introduction to the literature of medieval Ireland. Particular emphasis will be placed on the prose saga texts like the Tain Bo Cuailnge or Cattle Raid of Cooley, which features the legendary hero C/u Chulainn; also the various texts in both prose and poetry of the Fenian cycle of Fionn Mac Cumhaill (Finn McCool). The manner in which such texts shed light on the nature of medieval Irish society will be examined. There will be regular reading and writing assignments, and students will be expected to take part in class discussion.
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The cultural and political factors that have shaped Ireland's extraordinary literary achievement, paying particular attention to Irish Decolonization and the Northern Troubles. Readings from Shaw, Yeats, Joyce, Bowen, Friel, Heaney, and Deane.
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Daniel Corkery's study of the literature and society of Irish-speaking Munster in the 18th century (The Hidden Ireland, first published in 1924) is an acknowledged classic of Irish literary history. This course will examine aspects of the corpus of 18th-century poetry in the Irish language in the light of Corkery's analysis and of subsequent reassessments of that analysis (Louis Cullen and Breandan O Buachalla, for example). Selections from the corpus of poetry will be taken from iTuama and Kinsella An Duanaire: Poems of the Dispossessed (1981).
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3.00 Credits
Dramatic representations of the Irish character and the Irish nation from the end of the 19th century through the 20th. Includes Yeats, Lady Gregory, O'Casey, Shaw, and Synge.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the politics of culture, and the cultures of politics, in the north of Ireland during the 20th century.
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3.00 Credits
As the visit to campus of the most recent Irish winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature suggests, this small island has produced a disproportionate number of great writers. Designed as a general literature course, the class will introduce the student to a broad range of Irish writers in English from the eighteenth century to the present. Writers will include Jonathan Swift, Maria Edgeworth, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, Brian Friel, and John McGahern. We will also look at recent film versions of several of these writers' works, including Wilde's Importance of Being Earnest. Themes to be explored include representations of national character and the relationships between religion and national identity, gender and nationalism, Ireland and England, and "Irishness" and "Englishness." Students can expect a midterm, a paper (5-6 pages typed) and a final.
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3.00 Credits
A review of the legends and myths of the Celtic world, along with some of their contemporary adaptations.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed as an introduction to the literature of medieval Ireland. Particular emphasis will be placed on the prose saga texts like the Tain Bo Cuailnge or Cattle Raid of Cooley, which features the legendary hero Cu Chulainn; also the various texts in both prose and poetry of the Fenian cycle of Fionn Mac Cumhaill (Finn McCool). The manner in which such texts shed light on the nature of medieval Irish society will be examined. There will be regular reading and writing assignments, and students will be expected to take part in class discussion.
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