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3.00 Credits
How feminist cultures of the 20th century have engaged print culture and visual culture in imaginative ways to carve a space for discussions of women's issues.
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3.00 Credits
Modern and postmodern fiction (and some nonfiction prose) by British women. Authors may include Woolf, Butts, Rhys, Cunard, Richardson, Carrington, West, Mansfield, Carter, and Winterson.
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3.00 Credits
Close readings and discussion of Joyce's Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man, and Ulysses.
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3.00 Credits
Irish drama, fiction, and poetry of the second half of the 20th century.
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3.00 Credits
Focusing on the 200-year historical period that was crucial in the formation of "Ireland," this course explores the complex and contested cultural, political, and ideological identities of a group we have come to call the Anglo-Irish, including Swift, Berkeley, Edgeworth, and Goldsmith.
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3.00 Credits
A close examination of the works of major Irish writers of fiction after the Second World War--Flann O'Brien, Frank O'Connor, Mary Lavin, Patrick Kavanagh, Edna O'Brien, Michael MacLaverty, Sam Hanna Bell, and Brian Moore.
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3.00 Credits
In this course we will be looking at the relationship between gender politics and national politics as it plays out in the development of Irish fiction after the era of James Joyce. Focusing on Irish novels and short stories that were groundbreaking and/or controversial in terms of their exploration of gender and sexuality, the course will also investigate the historical contexts in which they were produced and the controversies they produced. Our investigation will focus on the question of how the trouble generated around these controversial explorations of gender and sexuality relates to other kinds of trouble that have shaped the history of twentieth century Ireland. We will begin with the reaction against government censorship in the Irish Free State during the 1930s and 1940s, follow the emergence of Irish women writers and Irish feminism from the 1950s to the 1980s, and conclude with the rise of gay and lesbian Irish writers in the 1990s and early twenty-first century. Students will be responsible for several short response papers, at least one in-class presentation, and a 20 to 25 page seminar paper.
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3.00 Credits
It was during the years 1914-1945, which encompass the two World Wars, that the twenty-six southern counties of Ireland emerged as an independent state, but at the cost of partition from the six counties of Northern Ireland, which have remained loyal to the British crown. In this course we investigate how Irish fiction of the period responds to these historical events, as well as to the draconian censorship imposed on film and literature in the Irish Free State. Reading will include novels and short stories by James Joyce, Liam O'Flaherty, Eimar O'Duffy, Sean O'Faolain, Frank O'Connor, Kate O'Brien, Seamus O'Kelly, Kathleen Coyle, Samuel Beckett, and Elizabeth Bowen. Requirements consist of class presentations, regular postings to Concourse, and a final research paper of 15 pages.
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3.00 Credits
This course will focus on the contemporary fiction of Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales, as well as some of the best recent black British fiction. Some of the authors whose work we will read are: John Banville, Zadie Smith, Monica Ali, Andrea Levi, Irvine Welsh, James Kelman and Pat Barker. These writers will be read in the context of "the Break-up of Britain" and a concomitant sense of the changes in British and Irish identity in the past twenty years or so.
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3.00 Credits
The idea of "love at first sight," lyrics on the pain of unrequited love, the genre of "romance"-all of these are arguably inventions of the Middle Ages. This course will examine the complex and elaborate discourse of "love" that dominated literary and even spiritual writings of the late medieval period. In particular, we will be looking at the literature of late medieval England, and, more specifically, how writers placed this highly romanticized conception of love in dialogue with the more pragmatic and earth-bound topics of sex and marriage. Reading texts as varied as Chaucer's infamous Wife of Bath, with her five successive husbands, Margery Kempe's description of her mystical marriage to the Godhead, and romantic entrapment of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, we will ask what made these topics so compelling to medieval writers and what relation, if any, their stories bore to actual contemporary practices of marriage and courtship. The research component of the course will survey different kinds of research frameworks to help enrich our understanding of the texts from both historical and theoretical perspectives, allowing students to create research projects tailored to their own interests and talents, leading up to writing of a 20-page research paper.
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