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3.00 Credits
ENG 30480 Reading Gender and Sexuality at UCD; In this module, we will explore the ways in which gender and sexuality, the body and desire, have been constructed in the West from the late 19th century up to the present. We will closely read key theoretical texts that articulate concepts of gender and sexuality in sexology, psychoanalysis, feminist theory, queer theory, and other theories of subjectivity. We will then explore how a diverse range of literary and visual texts can be read and analysed in light of these theoretical paradigms and concepts. We will consider the ways in which understandings of gender and sexuality change across cultures and historical periods, and what such differences might tell us about the ways in which gender and sexuality, bodies and identities, are constituted in history and culture. We will think about the relation between cultural representation, social change, and identity, to interrogate to what extent the ways that we identify as woman or man, gay or straight, are influenced by social and cultural forces normally understood as `outside' of the `self'. Indicative theoretical texts include works by Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, Michel Foucault, Leo Bersani, GlorÃa Anzaldua, Eve Sedgwick and Judith Butler.
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3.00 Credits
This is a theme-based course centred on texts from the medieval to the Renaissance period, from Chaucer and Langland to Marlowe and Shakespeare. It concerns itself with texts that deal with providential Christian views of history, with salvation and damnation, with the difficulties of moral choice.
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5.00 Credits
This course concerns itself with the traditions of non-realistic fiction in English, such as fable, allegory, parody and satire, Gothic narrative and fantasy. Texts from medieval, Renaissance and modern periods are all covered.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the relationship between realism and the novel in texts ranging from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century, beginning with the intellectual origins of ideas of realism, focusing on the constructedness of `reality? and realism as conventions used in fiction, the assumptions on which these concepts rest, and the non-fictional forms of representation which novels mimic.
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4.00 Credits
To study Brazilian literature and its origins in Romanticism. The class will concentrate on authors of each period or in grouped works.
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4.00 Credits
Taught as "La Ciudad y la Novela Latinoamericana" at the host institution. Reading of theory and 5 novels on the city. Discuss how literature form our impression of the city and vice versa. Focus is on Paris, Mexico City and Bogota.
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10.00 Credits
EN 3451 Myths and Fairies at TCD; This course, over two semesters, looks at the use of mythology, the supernatural and folklore in literature from Ovid to C.S. Lewis. The Metamorphoses of Ovid has been for two thousand years among the most influential and widely read of classical texts, and its popularity has led to imitations, adaptations and allusions by Chaucer, Shakespeare and Milton as well as providing subjects for the masterpieces of European art. But the dominance of classical myth is not unchallenged, and it is joined by what is now called the "folklore" of the more northerly peoples from an early period. With the growth of modern nationalism the politics and aesthetics of folklore underlie cultural assertions of nationality, notably in Ireland, and they are also important in the evolution of children's literature.
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8.00 Credits
This course opened with an examination of the novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald,"The Great Gatsby," "Tender is the Night," and the uncompleted "The Las Tycoon," which ended his career. Destruction, priviledge, and romance were major themes traced through each of the novels. The course ended with a series of novels by Nabokov, starting with "Lolita," through to "Speak, Memory," "Pnin," "Invitation to a Beheading" and "The Real Life of Sebastian Knight." Nabokov's virtuosic command over characterization was studied, as well as his ability to continually defy conventions of the novel.
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3.00 Credits
The unit is really divided into two distinct areas, though there will be major areas of comparison. In studying Australian film, students will examine both historical and contemporary films with an emphasis on their expression of history and culture and how they reflect Australian society. Australian plays from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day will be examined within a cultural and dramatic context. Texts will be selected to illustrate Australian themes as well as for differing dramatic styles. They will be explored from both a literary and performance perspective.
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7.00 Credits
"This course surveys and critiques the main developments, debates, and trends within anti-colonial discourse and post-colonial theory. It begins with a study of Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' placing the Western view of Africa in context and moves on to explore texts by African authors relating their own stories and putting their history in their own words. These novels Include: 'Things Fall Apart', 'Season of Migration to the North', 'Nervous Conditions', 'Half of a Yellow Sun', 'White Skin Black Masks', and other important works of post-colonial theory such as 'Orientalism' and 'Waiting for the Barbarians'. There is also an emphasis on post-colonial critiques of each of these literary works and the debates which surround them. "
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