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3.00 Credits
This course explores the nature and experience of the British way of life in the 20th century. It draws on all aspects of the media from fiction and poetry to television soap operas and newspapers in order to consider some central themes: nationalism, imperialism, the class system, the monarchy, the popular imagination, race, politics.
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3.00 Credits
The development of the novel in English from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century is the focus of this unit. Students undertake a study of the relationship between individual works of fiction and the historical, social and cultural context in which they were written, and which they reflect. The implications of contemporary literary theory are considered in context and the unit promotes an appreciation of the complex movement from pleasure to understanding in the reading of fiction. Students develop skills in critical discernment through detailed textual analysis. Authors studied include Austen, Bronte, Hardy, Lawrence, and Tolkien.
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4.00 Credits
This course provides a study of selected major works in British literature from the beginnings through the nineteenth century. Texts and authors discussed will include Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales, Shakespeare, John Webster, the Romantic poets, George Eliot and others. The major topics for discussion will be identity, the concept of the "other," love, and sexuality.
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3.00 Credits
On Christmas Day, 1764 Horace Walpole published The Castle of Otranto, the very first Gothic novel. The Gothic flourished especially in the nineteenth century, creating a whole vocabulary of new creatures and landscapes and two of the great books of the genre: Frankenstein And Dracula. This course concentrates on the great works of Gothic which are central to an understanding of literature, film, early Romanticism and popular culture. Specialising on the works of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries we will also explore how those texts were reinvented for film and what new elements were added in the twentieth century. Using a selection of texts and using a variety of approaches from the historical to post modern, feminist, and queer theory we will explore the multifarious levels of meaning in Gothic texts as well as looking at narrative strategies and a variety of themes including the political and revolutionary, the erotic and the exotic, the Promethian and the undead, the role of religion, the role of women, the Wandering Jew and the 'mock' medieval.
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3.00 Credits
An exploration, through a selection of novels written by writers whose ethnic origins lay outside the British Isles, of what life is like for ethnic minorities living in England and what ""being British"" means to them.
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of the nature and experience of British culture in the latter half of the 20th century, drawing on all aspects of culture including fiction and poetry, soap opera, situation comedy and film. A variety of themes will be considered including the class system, city and country, Englishness and multiculturalism, the class system, the monarchy, popular imagination, race, gender, and politics.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the influence of Japanese Noh drama on the plays of William Butler Yeats.
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3.00 Credits
"ENG 20440 Reading the Story of Ireland: Irish Literature in English at UCD; In this module students will engage with Irish writing in English. In class we will consider a number of approaches to the study of Irish literature, broadly structured around three core ideas / themes: the condition of cultural `in-betweenness, recurrent notions of national revival, and the relationship between gender and nation. Drawing widely on post-colonial, feminist and cultural materialist critical methodologies, the module will encourage students to think about alternative ways of configuring `the story of Ireland'. On completion of this module students should be able to: 1. Demonstrate a critical understanding of a wide range of the individual texts on this course 2. Situate the literary writing on this course in its national, historical, social and political contexts. 3. Make comparisons and contrasts between texts from the different Irish writers studied Hrs/Semester"
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3.00 Credits
The focus is on the prose sagas, specifically those of the Ulster cycle, set in the pre-Christian period, and describe a heroic aristocratic society. The most important tales, including Cu Chulainn, the supreme warrior figure, and the epic Tain.
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0.00 Credits
This course examines how a series of key contemporary Irish texts interrogates the uses of the past in the construction of present-day national, regional, gendered, familial, personal and artistic identities. The theme of tension between these identities is central to the texts. The post-colonial condition, which forms a vital backdrop to understanding contemporary Irish writing, will itself be examined through the lens of alternative frameworks of interpretation, especially those enabled by feminist theory. The value of literature in contexts of cultural and political conflict will be an important focus of exploration in this lecture series.
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