Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Philology |
Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios |
Subjects |
Irish Literature |
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Identifying Data | 2017/18 | |||||||||||||
Subject | Irish Literature | Code | 613G03046 | |||||||||||
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Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
Graduate | 2nd four-month period |
Fourth | Optativa | 4.5 | ||||||||||
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Topic | Sub-topic |
Introduction: | History and culture of Ireland: a general overview Early Irish Medieval Poetry. Ireland, myth and identity. |
1.-The 19th century. The Great Famine. | The Famine Poems. (Source: The Hungry Voice) |
2.-Early 20th Century. Irish Literary Revival. The Easter Rising. The Declaration of Independence. The Civil War. | 2.1 The Irish Literary Revival. Text: The Aran Islands and Connemara (Synge) (Excerpts) 2.2. Yeats. Text. Mythologies (excerpts) 2.3 Drama as the foundation of Irish identity. The Irish National Theatre. Lady Gregory and Yeats The Abbey Theatre John Millington Synge (Text: The Playboy of the Western World) Full text. / 'Riders to the Sea' (excerpts) Sean O’Casey: 'Juno and the Paycock' (Full text) 2.4. James Joyce. (Text: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young man. Excerpts). 'Ulysses' 2.5. Poetry. Patrick Kavanagh. Austin Clarke. |
3.-The Second Half of the 20th Century and The 21st Century | 3.1. Drama: Brian Friel (Text. 'Dancing at Lughnasa') (Excerpts) John B. Keane (excerpts) Martin MacDonough (excerpts) 3.2 Poetry: John Montague, Thomas Kinsella, Murphy, Paul Durcan Eavan Boland, Bernard O’Donoghue, Paddy Bushe, Lorna Shaughnessy, Medbh McGuckian, Paul Muldoon, Martin Higgins, Pearse Hutchinson, Paula Meehan, Mary O’Donnell, Leanne O’Sullivan 3.3. Seamus Heaney and his relevance in Irish literature 3.4. Novels and short stories: (students will choose one of the following authors) Frank O’Connor Flann O’Brian MacGahern Roddy Doyle Colm Tóibín John Banville Joseph O'Connor Eimear McBride Mike McCormack |
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