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3.00 Credits
An examination of modern Irish writing from 1890 to 2001, celebrating the range and diversity of Irish literature from Yeats and Joyce to the present.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides the literary and cultural framework for studying the tradition of Irish drama from the 19th century to the present. The world of Irish plays and playwrights is studied through text and performance.
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1.50 - 3.00 Credits
This course explores key issues, movements and figures in the parallel and intersecting worlds of Irish and British Poetry since World War Two. The course will examine the varying engagements by poets from the two neighbouring landmasses with issues of tradition versus modernity, external political versus internal psychic realities, art versus violence, and the gendered versus the 'neutral' consciousness. A basic prior knowledge of the chronology, backgrounds and typical concerns of the main poets in the field will be very helpful. Students are therefore advised to familiarize themselves with the two set course texts before the course begins.
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3.00 Credits
How the relationship between England and Ireland has been explored by writers from both countries.
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1.50 Credits
Discussion of : A Star Called Henry,The Giggler Treatment The Van, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, Woman who Walked into Doors, and the films "Michael Collins" and "The Van". This seminar aims to introduce students to the work of Roddy Doyle and examine how this work engages with received notions of "Irishness" and Irish identity. In this course we intend to document his writing as a transition from an investment in romanticised narratives, such as The Barrytown Trilogy, to a more self-reflexive and questioning mode of storytelling.
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3.00 Credits
ENG 30140 at UCD. This course will involve readings from Seamus Heaney in the context of Irish poetry in the yeras following the death of W.B. Yeats. We will concentrate upon selections taken from individual books from 'Death of a Naturalist' to 'The Haw Lantern' and essays from 'Preoccupations. Heaney's work will be read in relation to selected poems by Yeats, Kavanagh, Montague, Mahon and others.
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3.00 Credits
ENG 30170 at UCD. A few years ago, James Joyce's masterpiece coordinated all lists on both sides of the Atlantic as the 'book of the twentieth century'. This course will pursue a chapter-by-chapter reading, guiding students through its complexities and answering at least some of its challenges. Certain questions will recur: Joyce's use of epic modes; his sense of Dublin as an intimate city; his attitude to the past, to nationalism and to religion; his revolutionary use of new forms and styles, not least interior monologue; the role of the 'heroic' reader in decoding the text; the mixture of high art and popular culture. In the course of our work, we shall try to define just what it is that makes 'Ulysses' the central exhibit in the story of Irish modernism, while also registering its influence on European and post-colonial writers.
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3.00 Credits
ENG 30200 at UCD. With the exception of Beckett, Brian Friel is the most important Irish playwright in terms both of dramatic achievement and cultural importance to have emerged in the second half of the twentieth century. We will examine the occasions on which Friel plays had a worldwide impact: 'Philadelphia, Here I Come!, 'Translations' and 'Dancing at Lughnasa' will be central texts. But we will also take the opportunity to read other Friel Plays no less deserving of attention.
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3.00 Credits
This course will consider a range of texts relating to the ways in which London writers have explored and imagined the metropolis from the late 19th century. We will study the texts in detail and consider a variety of topics including the city and the countryside, war and its aftermath, social class, identity, 'multiculturalism', criminality, 'street haunting', gender, the sixties and urban consciousness at street level. There will be some creative writing options as part of the course requirements. Film, radio and TV recordings will be used to supplement studies as appropriate.Students will be encouraged to explore London independently as well as on planned trips and visits. We will visit the National Portrait Gallery and Tate Britain and there will be a theatre trip. In the final week Anne-Marie Fyfe, a London poet and host of the Troubadour Poetry Cafe (an acclaimed poetry venue which opened in the 1960s), will give a reading and discuss her work with the class. In awarding the final grade attendance, punctuality and engagement with the course will be taken into account. Set Texts Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes G.B. Shaw Pygmalion E.M. Forster 'The Machine Stops' Virginia Woolf Mrs. Dalloway 'Kew Gardens' Sam Selvon The Lonely Londoners Benson et al New Poems On The Underground Students will be encouraged to explore London independently and to develop their own interests. The University of Notre Dame (London) library has a wide range of materials to read and research.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Notre Dame Centre course taught by Prof. Seamus Deane. This course will offer an overview of Irish literature from the eighteenth century to the present day. Writers covered include Swift, Burke, Edgeworth, Stoker, Yeats, Joyce, Synge, Beckett, Heaney, Friel and McGahern.
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