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7.50 Credits
"A close study of a selection of Old English poetry, including elegies, laments, riddles, and heroic narratives, illustrating the distinctive thematic and stylistic qualities of Old English poetry. Students will be able to test their imagination against texts which are in many cases so enigmatic and so short that scholars have not been able to establish their meaning and context. Despite their mysterious content, the fragments nevertheless manage to convey a haunting sadness and should be seen as some of the most beautiful poems in the English language."
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3.00 Credits
When Shakespeare came to London in the early 1590s, he found an already thriving theatre business - playhouses, companies, audiences and a hunger for entertainment shared by court and city. The bar was already set high by the spectacular success of men like Thomas Kyd and Christopher Marlowe, but the newcomer, described as "an upstart crow," soon turned out to be the ultimate "Shake-scene" of the profession. What is often forgotten in the study of Shakespeare is that he could not have realized his full potential without the theatrical business being already in place, i.e., his achievement is best understood in the context of his time. The "Then" in the title of this course positions Shakespeare's plays among those of his contemporaries and attempts to uncover the dynamics of a culture, marked by material and political tensions. "Now," Shakespeare studies and his plays are part of global culture, but this does not apply to his contemporaries. Hence, students will grapple with the question why this is so. Another contemporary aspect is performance. Where possible, performances of the studied plays will be attended and discussed. In the case of Shakespeare, there is also rich film material.
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4.00 Credits
Alexander Pope is stereotypically pegged as a satirist irrevocably linked to the Scriblerus group of the early 18th century. Yet looking at his life as a recusant Catholic in an extremely Anglican community, Pope's writing tends to have more of a moralizing bent than is at first apparent. This course seeks to place Pope within the context of his life, exploring him as a moralist rather than dismissing him as merely a satirist, though a talented one at that. Texts for the class include a majority of the major works of Pope's career including The Rape of the Lock, An Essay on Man, his Epistles to Several Persons, and The Dunciad. Secondary texts will also be used to analyze further Pope's work in context.
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4.00 Credits
The famous political radical who helped to institute the Western literary tradition always thought of himself as a poet first. In the course, Milton's most important poetry will be analyzed and discussed: Poems 1645, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes. With consultation of some of Milton's prose tracts, the cultural and literary ideology of this English poetic giant will be discovered.
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3.00 Credits
ENG 20490 Romanticism at UCD; This course will introduce students to the Romantic period of literature, which falls approximately between the French Revolution (1789) and the ascent of Victoria to the British throne (1837). The Romantic period was one of peculiar eventfulness. Great changes and possibilities opened with the fall of the Bourbons in France, only to give way to suspicion and paranoia with the advent of the French Terror and the Napoleonic wars. As the increasingly conservative Edmund Burke wrote in his Reflections on the Revolution, 'everything seems out of nature in this strange chaos of levity and ferocity, and of all sorts of crimes jumbled together with all sorts of follies.' This was a period full of tumult and excitement, something that makes itself felt in much of the texts that we will read. Romantic writers are still among the best-known today, and include writers such as William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Walter Scott. In addition to the more famous poets and novelists, we will explore the writings of relatively new additions to the Romantic canon, including both male and female writers. We will also consider a variety of genres from the Gothic novel to the nature poem. Common concepts, ideas and themes cross textual boundaries in this period, and we will be examining how both radical and conservative writers dealt with the great changes that this period saw.
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3.00 Credits
The course intends to exemplify, through the works of the great romance author, the genre of novel or realistic romance, analyzing the characteristics and components, the socio-cultural context of the origin and development. At the same time the course will explain the popularity and persistence of the 6 austen novels, analyzing the narrative language, the rhetoric and techniques she uses.
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5.00 Credits
This course concentrates on one of the most powerful and influential European genres and through selected texts represents its variety from the medieval to the Renaissance period.
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7.50 Credits
Taught at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland as EN 3469 'Jane Austen'
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3.00 Credits
We will discuss the specific attributes of this literary genre, its strategies and constraints. Then we will study several masterpieces including Ivanhoe and Quentin Durward of Walter Scott, Prosper Merimee's Chronique du siecle de Charles IX; Dumas, the Three Musketeers; Tolstoy, War and Peace; Yourcenar, Memoires of Hadrien; Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers students a relative understanding of the fundamental characteristics of the aesthetic and the poetry of romanticism with particular attention to the narrative through the study of several of the most important authorial voices from the period from the end of the 1700 to the middle of the 1800s. After having introduced the social-historic context and aesthetic-literary aforementioned era of revolution, the course will concentrate on the works of Ann Radcliffe.
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