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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Philology |
| Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios |
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| Irish Literature |
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| Identifying Data | 2022/23 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Irish Literature | Code | 613G03046 | |||||||||||
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 2nd four-month period |
Fourth | Optional | 4.5 | ||||||||||
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| Introduction: The origins. | History and culture of Ireland: a general overview Early Irish Medieval Poetry. Ireland, myth and identity. The Amergin Poems (Amergin Invocation) Pángur Ban (The poet and the cat) The medieval and mythical world reflected in the contemporary poets |
| 1.-The 19th century. The Great Famine. | The Famine Poems. (selection of poems). Documents and texts about the Great Famine. Novel: Joseph O'Connor's 'Star of the Sea'. |
| 2.-Early 20th Century. Irish Literary Revival. The Easter Rising. The Declaration of Independence. The Civil War. | The Irish Literary Revival. General overview and political context. 2.1.- Text: The Aran Islands and Connemara (Synge) (Excerpts) / Kerry and Wicklow. 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) Excerpts. / 'Riders to the Sea' (Full text) Sean O’Casey: 'Juno and the Paycock' (excerpts) 2.4. James Joyce. (Text: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young man. Excerpts). 'Ulysses' (excerpts), Dubliners ('The Dead', full text). 2.5. Poetry. Patrick Kavanagh and other important poets of the period. |
| 3.-The Second Half of the 20th Century. | 3.1. Drama: Brian Friel (Text. 'Dancing at Lughnasa') (Film and Excerpts) John B. Keane (excerpts) Optional Martin MacDonough (excerpts) Optional 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 (a selection of poems written by some of these authors) 3.3. Seamus Heaney and his relevance in Irish literature (poems) |
| 4.-Introduction to the Irish contermporary novel and short story. | A general survey of the Irish novel and short stories in the last fifty years with special mention of some important authors. Students will have to read a novel by one of the authors listed, preferably different novels, not repeated ones, and will have to pass a reading test or quiz, oral or written, or both. Among the possible authors (if necessary, a selection will be made) to work on in class, we point out the following: Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) Frank O’Connor Flann O’Brian MacGahern Roddy Doyle Colm Tóibín John Banville Joseph O'Connor Sebastian Barry Eimear McBride Mike McCormack Sally Rooney William Trevor Kate O'Brian Colum McCann. Liz Nugent. Claire Keegan. Eilis Ni Dhuibhne. Clare Boylan. Anne Enright. Kevin Barry Paul Murray Rob Doyle Donal Ryan Emma Donoghue Lisa McInerney Sara Baume Belinda McKeon Hugo Hamilton |
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