Course details

Name: ENLT - 348

Title: IRISH LITERARY REVIVAL

Section: 01

Semester: Spring - 2011

Credits: 3

Description:
This course will mix close readings of Yeats's poems with study of folklore, drama, short stories, and autobiographies from the Irish Revival (1889 - 1916 approximately). Students will read Synge's ARAN ISLANDS (the travel writing of an educated, Europeanized Dublin Protestant visiting a rural, Catholic, "primitive" island), and Lady Gregory’s VISIONS AND BELIEFS IN THE WEST OF IRELAND (fairy legends, i.e. country people’s stories about childbirth, female healers, and fairy abductions of women and children). We will also study Gregory and Yeats’s co-authored patriotic play KATHLEEN NI HOULIHAN, and Joyce’s DUBLINERS. Later in the semester, the class will focus on the Easter Rising of 1916, reading an eye-witness account of Dublin during the Rising, Yeats's poems on the Rising's leaders, and the poems of those leaders themselves, anticipating their martyrdom. Evaluations will be based on participation, quizzes, a mid-term, a final, and a long paper due at the end of the semester. This course fulfills the following requirements for English majors: post-1900, International Issues, Ethnic Studies, Women and Gender Studies, Multinational Issues.

Last updated on 2010-10-24 By McDiarmid Lucy (mcdiarmidl)

Schedule: Tuesday,Thursday From 1:00 pm To 2:15 pm

Graduation requirements:

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Teaching Faculty: McDiarmid Lucy (mcdiarmidl)

Is course canceled: No