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3.00 Credits
BCENG Understanding Literature at TCD; Drawing upon the expertise of the School of English across a wide range of literatures in English, this course will offer to students from outside the discipline an opportunity to develop structured and informed approaches to reading. The course will highlight issues of critical methodology, literary influence and imitation, and literary form, offering a selection of prose, poetry and drama. By the end of the course students will have sharpened their own skills of literary analysis and will have studied a varied collection of substantial and rewarding texts.
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3.00 Credits
Survey of Arthurian literature.
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3.00 Credits
Course targets the alleged myth surrounding the figure of King Arthur and his presence within the British Isles. The course aims to relay the importance that King Arthur has exercised over those islands for nearly a thousand three hundred years, and why literature has been enriched with this romantic, yet powerful imagery and essence. The course is dedicated to students whose interests range from the literary prowess it has inspired, to the legends spawned, to geogpaphical and historic relevance of the round table.
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3.00 Credits
Taught as ENGL 2239 "Magic and Marvels in Early Narrative" at host instution. Magic, marvels and the 'other world' held a special place in pre-modern English consciousness. Beowulf fights monsters and a dragon to guard civilisation. In Sir Orfeo, Sir Launfal and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight otherworld figures test kingly power and Christian chivalry. In Chaucer's Franklin's Tale magic leads to deceit and danger. Mandeville's Travels outlines the wonders of medieval geography. All these 'marvellous' narratives offer important insight into life and mentality in earlier English times.
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3.00 Credits
Taught as IT 349 at host institution. This course explores and analyses a selection of canti from Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso in the original Italian. A close reading of the most significant episodes will introduce the students to Dante's Comedy. Lectures, class discussions and weekly papers will focus on the main themes of the poem, constantly referring to the historical, political and literary background. During this intense journey from the 'selva oscura' to the vision of God, students will learn about Dante's political views and engagement, philosophical thought, theological conception, idea of love, and relationship to literary models. Emphasis will be put on the difference between Dante the poet and Dante the character, the representation of Florence, the function of allegory and the complex characteristics of the poem's poetic language.
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1.50 Credits
This course looks at the medieval Welsh prose tales, the Mabinogion, oncentrating on the the Four Branches of the Mahinogi and Cullwch and Olwen, the earliest Arthurian tale. Composition, authorship, style, remnants of mythology and folklore, and critical approaches. For ppoetry, the amusing love poetry of Dafydd ap Gwilym and changes in bardic style and themes.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of selected plays of Shakespeare, with an emphasis on Shakespeare's development as a dramatist and his techniques of character development.
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3.00 Credits
A close examination of a range of texts produced during the British Victorian era, looking closely at style, language, and form as well as central themes such as industrialization, commerce, religion, town and country, the Great Exhibition, the position of women, and childhood.
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1.50 Credits
This course will introduce students to the literature of the early nineteenth century. You are probably already familiar with the writing of some of the Romantic poets; the aim of this course is to expand on that knowledge by looking at these writers in their historical and political context. We will also look at the work of other poets who were writing at this time, including the work of women, and will ask questions about the criteria used to define this body of writing, as well as the ideologies which shape our reception of these writers.
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3.00 Credits
EN 2002 Victorianism at Trinity College; This double module will explore the Victorian period through the close study of several important Victorian novels (Oliver Twist, Wuthering Heights, The Sign of Four)There is also an addition several pages of suggested reading and information about the Victorian era.
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