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5.00 Credits
EN 3538 Yeats and His Legacies at TCD; W.B. Yeats looms large in the landscape of Irish poetry, inspiring, overwhelming, provoking and challenging the poets who followed him. This course considers Yeats' work - from its Romantic beginnings to its grapplings with modernity - and then assesses movements in subsequent Irish poetry that we might trace to Yeats. Patrick Kavanagh has often been read as an anti-Yeats, while Seamus Heaney has been deemed an inheritor of both Yeats - because of his Nobel win and of Kavanagh - because of his commitment to a particular mode of pastoral. Through an examination of selected works of Yeats, Kavanagh and Heaney, we will ask how this trio of poets functions in relation to one another. In the final weeks of this course, we will consider the response to Yeats and his influence by two prominent Irish women writers, Eavan Boland and Nuala Ni´ Dhomhnaill, turning to the question of how Irish women writers function within the Irish poetic tradition, and how they respond to an inheritance dominated by figures like Yeats, Kavanagh and Heaney.
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3.00 Credits
ENG 30390 Contemporary Irish Writing at UCD; This module explores contemporary Irish writers' response to the challenge of death and nothingness. Whether religious, or post-religious, metaphysical, cynical or ironic, these literary works engage with the humanization of life's end and the unknown beyond. Can nihilism be overcome? Is there such thing as positive annihilation? What part can post Celtic-Tiger religiousness play in the relationship with death and afterlife? Does post-modern spiritualism offer comfort? Is it possible to refuse to see nihilism as a problem? Is it possible to talk about death at all? The course will investigate diverse literary responses to these and many similar questions thrown up by life's inevitable end.
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3.00 Credits
ENG 30280 at UCD. This course is devoted to a study of the main medium of communication used in Ireland, North and South, which is known as Hiberno-English. The course describes the history, development, and use of the English language in Ireland. It deals with both oral and literary material. The literary material considered is selected from bothe medieval and modern Hiberno-English, from the Land of Cokaygne through James Joyce and on up to Maeve Binchy and Martin McDonagh.
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7.00 Credits
A consideration of the role of Gothic themes, particularly those of doubling and melancholy loss in 19th century novels, with special attention to how Gothic ideas contributed to both horror and romantic genres. Poetry was added to the discussion of novels to determine how gothic poetry both echoed, and added to, the popular Gothic style begun by the novel.
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5.00 Credits
"An analysis and comparison of the well-known works of Thomas Hardy and George Eliot. Both authors considered difficult and convoluted love affairs with the addition of setting itself as an active character beyond a mere place. Ian McEwan's work was also considered in this tutorial as he emulates Thomas Hardy in his inclusion of place and sexually difficult themes. "
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8.00 Credits
"This course involved an in depth analysis of Shakespeare's comedies and tragedies, progressing chronologically. Each play was considered with special examination of its memorable protagonists and antagonists and the lines that often blur between them. Much of the course revolved around the study of Shakespeare's most famous tragedies and how his talent and acclaim increased during their production. All plays were read with an emphasis on the Latin sources, often by Plutarch, that Shakespeare employed when writing his works. The plays studied include Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, King Lear, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest. "
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4.00 Credits
In the mid-19th century, Matthew Arnold produced a seminal work that changed the way people thought and talked about the concept of culture. Culture and Anarchy, ever since its publication, has dominated the academic and critical community that Arnold in fact hoped to establish as his cultural clerisy. In the late Victorian era, Oscar Wilde began to speak about a culture that had essentially never been without Arnold's views. Though he broke away from Arnold's perspective, his work has inherent ties to the Arnold's influential writings. This course looks at all aspects of these two writers' careers: the poetry, the critical prose writing, and the fiction. With an eye on the indelible specter of Romanticism, these works will be put into their timely and modern context. The course will seek to discover whether these two cultural critics mean as much in our time as they did in their own.
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4.00 Credits
" A study of the children's fiction, namely The Chronicles of Narnia, by C.S. Lewis with respect to his contribution to the field of children's fantasy fiction. The course questioned how fantasywriters, such as JRR Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and their predecessors, George MacDonald and William Morris, draw the reader into the world of fantasy and fairy and how they use familiarity and accessibility to woo the reader (with a particular glance at how fantastic creatures are made believable). The course also looked at literary criticism by Lewis and Tolkien to analyze the importance of narrative perspective, dialogue, and point of view as means of developing characterization. The course culminated in an examination in the differences between the uses of allegory and symbolism in all seven of C.S. Lewis's books in The Chronicles of Narnia. "
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8.00 Credits
Throughout the course of his career, Shakespeare produced ten histories. Yet this classification of a dramatic work did not exist in classical terms; Heminges and Condell imposed it on the world with their 1623 Folio edition of Shakespeare's works. Through his two historical tetralogies (from Henry VI Part 1 to Henry V in terms of date composed) and concluding with Henry VIII in 1611, Shakespeare created a political commentary on the recent history of England that resulted in questions of succession being answered in the creation of the Stuart dynasty. This course seeks to analyze Shakespeare's perspectives on kingship, loyalty, courtly behavior, and the issue of England's identity as presented in the historical works. The big question ultimately is: What do these plays say about Shakespeare's views on his homeland?
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3.00 Credits
Taught as EN 315 at host institution. This course explores in some depth a particular period or theme in American literature. Students will study the major historical and cultural context(s) out of which the works grew. Possible topics include the pre-Civil War "American Renaissance," the post-World War I "Lost Generation," the Frontier and the American Dream, and the Modern American Novel. May be taken more than once for credit with different topics. Prerequisite: One previous course in English literature or permission of the instructor.
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