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3.00 Credits
We will read, discuss, and write about a wide range of contemporary writing by women, with a particular concentration on the short story and the writers visiting Notre Dame's Women Writers Festival. Our readings will include realistic fiction as well as innovative and experimental work, including graphic fiction; some of our readings will focus on women's experiences and perspectives, but some will "make the leap" to imagine men's consciousness and reality. We'll also read critical essays and reflections by the writers themselves to situate the work within the history of women writers; we'll be especially interested in the publishing and critical realities facing women writers today. Reading journal, midterm and final, brief presentation, and 8 to 10 page critical paper.
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3.00 Credits
This course considers the vexed topic of cultural change in the context of colonialism by examining key texts originally written in Irish (or a mixture of Irish and English) from a range of time periods, including works of comedy, satire, lament and protest. We will consider the critical literature on transculturation and examine primary texts and consider how they change over time and what they seem to suggest about how people negotiate competing sociocultural and economic imperatives. Knowledge of Irish is helpful but not necessary; translations will be provided along with original texts. Requirements: enthusiastic participation, several short and one long term paper.
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3.00 Credits
A close analysis of the dramatic literature produced by Irish playwrights during the latter half of the 20th century.
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The political poetry of the period 1541-1688 will be discussed and analyzed against the historical background. The primary focus will be the mentalite of the native intelligentsia as it is relfected in the poetry and as it responded to the momentous changes of the period. The origins and rise of the cult of the Stuarts will be examined and the historiography of the period will be assessed.
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of the complex and contested cultural, political, and ideological identities of the Anglo-Irish.
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of the ways in which such themes as doubling, haunting, terror, and sexual anxiety, themes that inhere in the Gothic novel, operate in modernist fiction.
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3.00 Credits
W.B. Yeats, Elizabeth Brown, Bram Stoker, J.M. Synge, Seamus Heaney, and Medbh McGuckian.
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3.00 Credits
A study both the drama produced by the playwrights of the Irish literary renaissance--W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge, Lady Gregory, and Sean O'Casey--and the political struggle for Irish independence that was taking place at the same time.
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3.00 Credits
The Hidden Ireland denotes both a book and a concept. The book was written by Daniel Corkery in 1924 and was an immediate success as it encapsulated a version of Irish history that had not hitherto been available to the general public; it is still considered to be a classic of its kind. The concept promoted the notion that history should emanate from "below" and should not be confined to the elites and governing classes. Both book and concept have had a profound impact on our understanding of Irish identity, Irish history, and Irish literature. This course will examine the book in depth and utilize it to open a window on the hidden Ireland of the 18th century. The cultural, historical, and literary issues that are raised by the book will be studied in the context of the poetry of the period. Poetry will be read in translation.
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3.00 Credits
Beginning with a study of the ethos of Irish/Celtic heroic literature in its historic and cultural context, this course examines the ideological, aesthetic, and personal uses to which that material has been put by Irish writers of the past two centuries (19th and 20th centuries) writing in English and Irish. Among the authors to be studied are: Seamus Heaney, Flann O'Brien/Myles na Gopaleen, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, and Eugene Watters/Eoghan ÓTuairisc. Particular attention will be paid to shifting concepts of authenticity and the degree to which various creative artists have retained, reinterpreted, or reinvented what they perceived to be the essence of their originals. This course will interest English majors, modernists and medievalists.
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