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  • ENGL 40538: Modern Irish Language Poetry in the 20th and early 21st Century

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    This course will use (often mutliple) translations into English to chart the development of Irish Language Poetry in the 20th and early 21st century from rather meagre beginnings as an instrument of the language revival movement to become a fully fledged and highly sophisticated art form. The main poets of this period will be richly represented , and some lesser known talents will also be discussed in terms of sociological context. Though taught in English, the course will include detailed close analysis of key texts in the original Irish. This will be useful to students studying Irish, but knowledge of Irish is not mandatory for the course.
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  • ENGL 40539: The Blasket Islands and their Literature

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    "The island of the Great Blasket lies three miles off the Kerry coast of Ireland, at the westernmost tip of Europe. Virtually unknown before this century, it was to produce a rich and extraordinary flowering of literature that has made it famous throughout the world." Oxford University Press This course will examine the phenomenon that is Blasket Island literature. Before its eventual desertion in 1953, the previous thirty years had seen the production of literary works by inhabitants of the Blaskets such as An tOileánach/ The Islandman by Tomás Ó Criomhthainn; Fiche Bliain ag Fás/ Twenty Years A Growing by Muiris Ó Súilleabháin; Machnamh Seanmhná/ An Old Woman's Reflections by Peig Sayers. This course will trace this remarkable flowering both to the immensely rich oral traditions of the island and the dynamic interplay of such literary and scholarly visitors as George Thompson and Robin Flower with the island authors. All texts will be read in translation.
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  • ENGL 40545: The Modern British and Irish Short Story

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    This course will trace the generic development and changing structures of the short story form - there is more involved here than mere brevity - and will also provide a series of readings from the major British and Irish short story writers from the twentieth century. We will read from the short story theories of these individual authors, where such theory exists, and will examine the important connections between the form and the idea of a national literature. Writers will include: James Joyce, Frank O'Connor, Liam O'Flaherty, Mary Lavin, Kate Roberts, D.H Lawrence and Virginia Woolf.
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  • ENGL 40567: National Cinema: Film, Literature and Irish Culture

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    This course will examine some of the dominant images of Ireland in film and literature from the Celtic Twilight to the Celtic Tiger, and will place the development of a national cinema in a wider cultural and historical context. Comparisons between film, literature and other cultural forms will feature throughout the course, and key stereotypes relating to gender, class and nation will be analyzed, particularly as they bear on images of romantic Ireland and modernity, landscape, the city, religion, violence, family and community. Particular attention will be paid to questions of emigration, the diaspora and Irish-America, with a view to looking later in the course at issues relating to race and multi-culturalism in contemporary Ireland. In terms of film and literature, key figures such as Yeats, Synge, and Joyce, and contemporary writers such as Brian Friel, John McGahern, Maeve Brennan, William Trevor, Patrick McCabe, Seamus Deane, Alice McDermott and Roddy Doyle will be discussed. The resurgence of Irish cinema and new forms of Irish writing in the past two decades will provide the main focus of the second part of the semester, tracing the emergence of new distinctive voices and images in an increasingly globalised and multi-cultural Ireland.
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  • ENGL 40568: Women and Magazines

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    This course will explore women's print culture by focusing on women as producers and consumers of periodicals. Some of the key figures in what is sometimes called a "female" modernism made their living by publishing literary pieces and journalism in periodicals or through serving as literary editors: Djuna Barnes, Rebecca West, Virginia Woolf, Jesse Fauset, to name a few; and many of the key texts of literary modernism made their first appearance in periodicals. In addition, the periodical press has been called the medium that best "articulates the unevenness and reciprocities of evolving gender ideologies" and thus is ideal for a study of the role literary culture plays in constructing and diagnosing the contradictions of femininity in modernity. The period between the coincident rise of the New Woman and New Journalism in the 1880s and the dominance of the "woman's magazine" in the interwar years is extraordinarily rich in examples of diverse approaches to understanding femininity presented in the press. As we consider the connections between women and periodical culture from various angles (reception, circulation, representations of women journalists, the centrality of Little Magazines, "slick" magazines and women's magazines as key venues for publishing modernist texts, etc.) we will meet the modern woman journalist and her close relations: female editors, "sob sisters," "stunt girls," "agony aunts" to name a few. We will take a good look at a variety of publication venues - modernist "Little Magazines," feminist periodicals, so-called "women's magazines" as well as the daily press. We will be working with periodicals in various formats: microfilm, digitalized texts, edited collections, and bound volumes. One brief essay, two mid-length (8 to 10 page) essays and one group presentation.
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  • ENGL 40587: Literatures of the American Hemisphere

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    National borders mark our Americas today, but for the first European explorers the landscapes of their "new world" were uncharted and unbounded. The newly encountered land invited utopian dreams even as it became the arena for genocidal violence. To reconsider these moments of violence and possibility, we will approach early American literature intra-hemispherically, reading not just from the British colonial record, but also Spanish documents in English translation. We will read comparatively in order to ask key questions about American identity both then and now. For example, what do we learn when we juxtapose Cortés' invasion of the Mexican empire to King Philip's War in the New England colonies? To what degree do these legacies of imperialism still shape our modern world? What comparisons arise between the poetry of Anne Bradstreet and Sor Juana Inés de La Cruz; between the captivity adventures of Cabeza de Vaca and Mary Rowlandson? How might these contact points continue to shape our views of "others"? How have native nations across the Americas written or spoken the loss of worlds? The authors and subjects noted above will serve as key markers, but we will also read primary works by William Bradford, Bernal Díaz, John Smith, William Apess, and others as we reconsider the literatures and histories of the Americas in a cross-national paradigm. Students will be expected to write three short papers, take a final exam, and participate actively in class.
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  • ENGL 40601: Voices of American Renaissance

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    A focus on the trope of "voice" as it shaped the literatures of the American renaissance period through an exploration of works by Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, Dickinson, Whitman, Douglass, Melville, Stowe, Hawthorne, and a number of lesser known authors and oral performers.
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  • ENGL 40602: Tragedy: Shakespeare and Melville

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    In this course we will read some of the great tragic works in the English language, indeed, in all of literature. Our syllabus will cover four plays by Shakespeare and Melville's finest achievement, Moby-Dick. As the course title suggests, we will study these works in the context of their historical moments and in the context of tragedy as a genre. Reading Moby-Dick after Shakespeare will also enable us to witness in detail the nature of literary influence and to compare the tragic visions of Shakespeare and Melville as they explore such themes as good and evil, freedom and fate, and the individual and society. As we study these texts, we will consider the various reasons for their important place in the literary canon. Ultimately, let us make the most of our time together with works of art that are timeless in their beauty and ever timely in their relevance, works that continue to teach and to delight. Assignments include four essays (3 to 4 pages), a final exam, an oral presentation, and a daily question or close reading on the assigned text.
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  • ENGL 40603: Realism and Naturalism in American Literature

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    An examination of American literature between the Civil War and World War I in relation to the literary movements known as realism and naturalism.
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  • ENGL 40604: Nature in American Literature

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    Using concepts of tragedy as a linking principle, this course reads several Shakespearean plays and then Moby-Dick, noting Shakespeare's influence on the American novelist.
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