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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course will explore the centrality of emigration and immigration in the literary production of Irish fiction and drama by both writers in Ireland and abroad. The course will range from the nationalist movements of the early 20th century and their demand for a stop to emigration from Ireland to the early 21st century, which has seen a tremendous influx of immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers into Ireland. Special attention will be paid to the homeless Irish woman and the immigrant Irish woman, domestic violence, the concept of emigration as libratory or as exile, the problems of the returnee, and fantasies of gender and ethnic essentialism and of a threatened "authentic" home and nation. The course will be reading-intensive, and will emphasize close reading skills, cultural analysis and historical contexts for each text. Students will write weekly short papers (3 pages) that perform literary analysis and incorporate historical readings and/or literary theory from library reserves. Course texts will include W. B. Yeats's and Lady Gregrory's Cathleen ni Houlihan, Joyce's Dubliners, Brian Friel's Philadelphia, Here I Come, Maeve Brennan's The Rose Garden, Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Edna O'Brien's Down by the River, Marina Carr's By the Bog of Cats and Roddy Doyle's The Woman Who Walked into Doors.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of Irish identity through an introduction to the literature, both historical and contemporary, of Anglo Ireland.
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3.00 Credits
The twentieth century arrived to a world altered by industry and the metropolis, by scientific theory and psychoanalysis, by mechanical transportation and communication devices. Such a climate challenged traditional values, social mores, class distinctions, gender roles, and conceptions of nation, propriety and home. The literature from the first half of the century suggests that the increasingly alienating world forces interpersonal connection to take place under new circumstances, often outside of the traditional settings regulated by marital, social and religious convention. Through close reading, students in this course will examine how the literature presents colonialism, The Great War, the deterioration of aristocratic class values and privilege in both Britain and Ireland, the destruction of the metropolis and the home during the London air raids of World War II, and the shift in personal values vis-à-vis alcohol consumption and marital infidelity. The course will look at these modernist works in light not only of the alienating circumstances they represent, but also of the effect that alienation has on the interpersonal connections between individuals.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine the Irish Revival (1891-1939) as a dynamic moment in modern Irish literature in which key literary figures like W.B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, John Millington Synge and James Joyce worked to make Ireland a center of cultural innovation once again. This significance of this period to Ireland's decolonization and to related debates over the appropriate forms and language for an Irish national literature will provide a central focus. Texts to be considered will include: the drama of J.M. Synge and Lady Gregory, the poetry of W.B. Yeats and Joyce's Dubliners.
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3.00 Credits
In this course we will read modern Irish history, film, poetry, drama, short fiction and the novel to explore the various ways Irish artists and writers have sought to give shape to national identity and the political geography of Irish life. Our primary intention will be to read and appreciate the individual works, but over the course of the semester we shall seek to compare the different visions of nation and culture those works present. Because of Ireland's exceptional history we may in fact discover that the central element of so much of its best art is precisely to imagine what it means to be Irish. In consequence, Irish works provide us a window through which to examine the relation between art and politics, imagination and the nation. Readings will range from John Ford's "The Quiet Man," to poems by Seamus Heaney, W.B. Yeats and Eavan Boland, to fiction by Edna O'Brien, John McGahern and James Joyce. Assignments include four short essays, several in-class presentations, and a final exam.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the literature, language, culture and history of Ulster in Ireland and confronts the stereotypes of binary opposition that commonly mark the region. Through close textual readings of literary texts from the seventeenth century onwards, we discuss and interrogate the literary, religious, cultural and linguistic forces that shaped identity in Ulster from the colonial period onwards and explore the shared heritage of both communities -Irish/English, Catholic/Protestant, Native/Planter. This course will suit English majors and those interested in the study of identity formation and competing cultural ideologies. No prior knowledge of Irish is required for this course. All texts will be in translation.
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3.00 Credits
The early modern period (sixteenth to late-eighteenth centuries) is a time of English conquest in Ireland. It is therefore a period of cumulative crisis for the Irish and is important in the formation of their identity. We will read closely a selection of texts, both prose and poetry, representative of various facets of this crisis and of Irish responses to them. All texts, originally written in Irish, will be read in English translation. The material provides interesting contrasts and comparisons for those who have already studied some Anglo-Irish literature (we will in fact read some English writing on Ireland in this period) and it will also be of interest to students of Irish history. We will supplement the material with readings from the work of historians on early modern European nationalism in order to place it in its wider context. In addition, we will examine some recent work on the interface between language, literature and anthropology in order to deepen our cultural understanding of the texts we are studying.
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3.00 Credits
The nineteenth century was a dynamic period for Ireland and writers from a many different backgrounds offer a range of perspectives on these changes. The central works of the class reflect diverse ideas on Irish and British history and literature and will provide a frame for debate and discussion of violence and social change, sexuality, economics, and politics during the Victorian period. Readings will include works from a variety of genres including: Somerville & Ross, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, W.B. Yeats, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Matthew Arnold, and James Clarence Mangan. Course work will include several brief essays and a research paper.
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3.00 Credits
This course seeks to counter the view of English and Irish literature as unrelated during the Victorian period by exploring how both Irish and English writers of the period engage in the process of defining their respective countries and cultures. Certainly, in the Victorian Era defining Ireland's relationship to England was anything but simple. What becomes apparent by exploring Irish and English attempts to write about their respective nations is not only the divergence in ways Irish and English writers characterized the relationship between the two countries but also how the process of defining Irish and English realities ultimately took different forms. Therefore, this course will not only explore how individual writers go about writing 'nations' but how the forms these writings take also reveal certain intersections and divergences between what characterizes Irishness and Englishness.
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3.00 Credits
A close reading of traditional Irish myths, tales, songs, customs, rituals, and beliefs.
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