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4.00 Credits
Taught at Oxford University - Year Program
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4.00 Credits
Taught at Oxford University - Year Program
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3.00 Credits
This course will consider the ways in which writers from the late 19th century to the present day have engaged with the metropolis and the diversity of its terrains. The course will explore many topics, which include the 'collisions' (E.M. Forster) between social classes in the Edwardian period; Virginia Woolf's Modernist 'street haunting' aesthetic; post 9/11 anxieties and 'multiethnic' identities by reference to a range of fiction (by Conan Doyle, G.B. Shaw, Virginia Woolf, Ian McEwan, Meera Syal), poetry, essays and articles. There will be class visits to exhibitions and a theatre production. Students are encouraged to explore London independently.
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3.00 Credits
Many of Britain's greatest 20th century novelists have explored questions of self, society, and history against the backdrop of London, that most literary of cities. Our reading list will examine London as it copes with the traumas of the Great War (Virginia Woolf, Pat Barker) and World War II (Graham Greene, Muriel Spark), as it indulges in the social tumult of the '60s and '70s (V.S. Naipul, Kingsley Amis) and as it reacts to waves of immigration at century's end (Hilary Mantel, Zadie Smith, Monica Ali). As we trace the routes of many of our fictional characters, from Mrs. Dalloway's Bond Street to Monica Ali's Brick Lane, we'll explore how modernist and postmodernist ideas and experiments helped shape the narrative form of the London novel, just as they were shaping the art and architecture of the city. Literary and architectural walking tours and a visit to the Tate Modern will supplement our discussions of the novels. Response papers, 12-15 page paper, final.
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4.00 Credits
This course involved an intensive four-week-long study of the plays of Tom Stoppard. Plays were grouped by common themes and were analyzed individually and as part of a group. In total, fifteen plays were studied over the course of four weeks, with special attention being paid to stylistic as well as central plot elements. The result of this course of study was a thorough knowledge of a broad spectrum of Stoppard's theatrical works. The course work consisted of reading the primary texts, researching the topics, and writing weekly 2,000 word essays to be discussed in tutorial.
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of the nature and experience of British culture in the latter half of the 20th century. It will draw on all aspects of culture including fiction and poetry, soap opera, situation comedy, and film, and a variety of themes will be considered including the class system, city and country, Englishness and multiculturalism, the class system, the monarchy, popular imagination, race, gender, and politics.
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1.50 Credits
Taught in Dublin, Ireland - UCD Program
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1.50 - 3.00 Credits
The development of Yeats' poetry from romantic symbolist to modernist, in 5 main stages, treated chonologically from the 1880's to the 1930's.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the influence of Japanese Noh drama on the plays of William Butler Yeats. For majors.
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1.50 - 3.00 Credits
Theatre as an arena for cultural and political debate in Ireland. This course will explore a rante of recent plays which reflect interestingly on the profound cultural shifts of Celtic Tiger Irealnd. Texts by Brian Friel, Marina Carr, Conor McPherson, Martin McDonagh, Eugene O'Brien, JM Synge.
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