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SYLLABUS English Advanced Course - Irish
Poetry: From Yeats to McGuckian 7,5 ECTS credits
Autumn 03
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The Faculty of Humanities and Languages |
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Single
Subject Course
Course
co-ordinator/examiner: Irene Gilsenan Nordin
AIM
The
course aims to enhance the students’ understanding of representative
works of Irish poetry, as well as of contemporary literary theory and
criticism. Through their analyses of the texts studied on this course,
students will deepen their knowledge of modern Irish poetry from a
theoretical point of view and develop their analytic skills.
The
literary works are studied from a variety of modern and postmodern
theoretical perspectives, such as Phenomenology, Feminism,
Psychoanalysis, Postcolonialism, New Historicism, and Poststructuralism.
Besides being introduced to theoretical texts, students will also study
a number of critical articles dealing directly with the poetry studied
on the course. In order to encourage independent thinking and a critical
response to the texts studied, students are required to apply various
literary critical theories to a limited range of poems through short
hand-in assignments.
The
course consists of obligatory seminars, in which students are expected
to participate actively. All teaching is conducted in English.
Assessment
The
students are assessed through seminar activities and hand-in
assignments.
GRADE
The
grades used are Pass with Distinction, Pass, and Fail.
REQUIREMENTS
English
Intermediate Course (B) or equivalent.
LITERATURE
Crotty, Patrick.1995. Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology. Belfast: Blackstaff (436 pp)
Eagleton, Terry. 1996. Literary Theory: An Introduction. 2nd ed. Minneapolis: Minnesota UP (224 pp)
Compendium of critical articles (150 pp)
REFERENCE
LITERATURE
Maryann Gialanella Valiulis eds. 1997. Gender and Sexuality in Modern Ireland. Amherst, MA: U of Massachusetts P
Daniels, Patsy J. 2001. The Voice of the Oppressed in the Language of the Oppressor. New York: Routledge
Goodby, John. 2000. Irish Poetry Since 1950: From Stillness into History. Manchester: Manchester UP
Kiberd, Declan. 1995. Inventing Ireland. London: Jonathan Cape
Mahony, Christina Hunt. 1998. Contemporary Irish Literature: Transforming Tradition. Basingstoke: Macmillan
Sailor, Susan Shaw. ed. 1997. Representing Ireland: Gender, Class, Nationality. Gainesville: U of Florida P
Vance Norman. 1999. Irish Literature: A Social History. Dublin: Four Courts Press
Welch, Robert. ed. 1992. Irish Writers and Religion. Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe