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3.00 Credits
LING 10050 Introduction to Linguistics at UCD; This module provies and introduction the main areas of Linguistics and language study. it covers Phonetics (the sounds used by Human Languages), Phonology (the analysis of how sounds are organised in specific languages), Morphology (whow words are made in languages), Syntax (how phrases and sentences are made in languages), Semantics (the study nof meaning in words and phrases), Pragmatics (how meaning can be infered in language from context), It also provides an analysis on current theories of Language Acquisition and Language Impairment.
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3.00 Credits
This course discusses the theory of comedy, taking Geoffrey Chaucer's humor as its starting point. It considers the element of subversion in humor, as well as its cruelty, and by studying a selection of writings from Chaucer to the present it seeks to identify the permanent elements in comedy, as distinct from those which change or disappear according to fashion and taste.
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3.00 Credits
An in-depth examination of some of the major works of English and French literature in the period of the Hundred Years War, when each country defined its sense of national identity, and will set these works in their cultural, social, and political context.
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4.00 Credits
A course on Shakespeare's comedies, from his earliest, The Comedy of Errors, to the later tragicomedies Measure for Measure and Alls Well that Ends Well, as well as The Winters Tale, The Tempest, and Twelfth Night. This course traces a common pattern through these plays, especially in dealing with Shakespeare's experimentation with genre, exploiting and reworking pre-existing forms from the works of others, as well as of his own.
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3.00 Credits
While considering the whole of Shakespeare's dramatic career from 1590-1613, and putting it in historical, social, and literary context, this course will concentrate on five of his plays paired with works very close in date by other dramatists: Richard III with Marlowe's Edward II (both 1592-93), As You Like It with Dekker's Shoemaker's Holiday (both 1599-1600), Measure for Measure with Marston's The Malcontent (both 1603-04), Coriolanus with Chapman's Conspiracy and Tragedy of Byron (both 1608), and The Tempest with Jonson's The Alchemist (both 1610). Evening visits to current productions of these or other Jacobethan plays (dictated by what is on) will be included.
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3.00 Credits
Taught as ENGL 20010 "Reading in the Middle Ages I" at host institution. This module will introduce you to a selection of outstanding works of the later Middle Ages, and in three principal genres, poetry, drama, and prose. Poetry will be represented by a selection of tales from The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, and by Piers Plowman, the work of Wiliam Langland. Drama will be represented by a selection of medieval mystery plays from the great civic cycle dramas. And prose will be represented by the Morte Darthur of Sir Thomas Malory and by the Book of Margery Kempe.
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5.00 Credits
The Dream of the Rood (before ca. 1000) contains an almost psychedelic encounter (or rather a series of encounters, in different dimensions) with the Cross of Christ?s crucifixion; Piers Plowman (late 1370s) presents a detailed and panoramic dramatization of many of the social and political issues of its day, including such problems as the rise of commercialism and the nature of public responsibility for the poor; Chaucer?s Book of the Duchess (after 1386) is apparently an elegant consolation-poem addressed to his patron, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, on the occasion of the death of his wife Blanche; while The Parliament of Fowls (late 1370s or early 1380s), also by Chaucer, presents a subtle and at times comical analysis of the function of love, both in terms of the natural world and of human society.
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3.00 Credits
A close survey of the major thinkers of the British literary-critical tradition in Britain. It will explain their cultural and theoretical propositions and show these against their historical, philosophical, and artistic backgrounds. Essentially, the course is about ideas and their history and context. Care will be taken to make students aware of the urgency and the polemics of writers such as Arnold, Ruskin, and Leavis, as well as delineating their essential concern for wider problems of a moral and social nature. British criticism, with its pragmatic and ethical interest, will be contrasted with European and American forms of interpretation and the relative merits of these systems will be studied. By the end of the course students will have a clear, yet sophisticated, set of analytical models and theories by (and against) which, they may judge literary production.
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3.00 Credits
ENG 30290 at UCD. From the historical writings of Alfred the Great to the romances of Chaucer and the Wycliffe Bible, the Middle Ages was a period in which translation played an integral part. Unlike much modern translation, however, medieval translation was not a transparent process; rather, writers re-created and re-interpreted the works which they translated so as to draw them into line with the ideals of their own intellectual climate. Medieval translation was an interpretative process during which the translator reacted and responded to the original, thus creating a dialogue in which the social, political and ecclesiastical concerns of the period are fully expressed. During the course of this semester we shall examine some of these concerns, including such issues as gender, nation and identity, the secular and the sacred, the cult of the hero and anti-hero. At the same time, we shall also consider modern translations of medieval works, and the approach adopted by artists and academics who set out to translate medieval texts. Beginning with Seamus Heaney's recent Beowulf, we will examine modern concepts of medievalism and the contribution which the Middle Ages continues to make to current artistic endeavour.
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3.00 Credits
A study of Shakespeare both on the page and on the stage, and with how reading and seeing his plays are related. As well as classwork on tests and theatre history and practice, there will be visits to the rebuilt Globe in London and a four-day residency in Stratford with visits to the Royal Shakespeare and Swan Theatres.
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