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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Philology |
| Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios |
 Subjects |
| Literatura Irlandesa |
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| Identifying Data | 2015/16 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Literatura Irlandesa | 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 |
| The 19th century. The Great Irish Famine and its influence in Irish History and Literature. | -Irish Famine History. -Irish Famine Poems. -Irish Famine documents and films. |
| 1.- Irish Literature at the beginning of the 20th century. The Easter Rising. 2.- Analysis and study of the most relevant periods and authors of Irish Literature in the 20th and 21st centuries. |
2.1. Irish Drama. The founding of a national theatre. The Abbey Theatre: Yeats, Lady Gregory, John Millington Synge. (The Playboy of the Western World) Sean O'Casey (The Dublin Plays) 2.2. The contemporary theatre. Beckett. Brian Friel and John B. Keane. 2.3 -. Joyce and his legacy. Dubliners (The Dead) 2.4. Contemporary Irish Poetry: Kavanagh. Seamus Heaney. Meadh McGuckian. Bernard O'Donoghue. Irish Poetry Anthology. 2.5 - Contemporary Irish Fiction. Irish literature and film. Workshops on literature and film. |
| TEXTS | Compulsory readings |
| Compulsory Readings for this course: | The Playboy of the Western World (Synge). The Aran Island and Connemara- excerpts. (Synge) The Dublin Plays (O'Casey) Mythologies (Yeats-excerpts). Joyce (The Dead, an excerpts) Translations (Brian Friel) A selection of poems. |
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