Course details

Name: ENGL - 335

Title: CONTEMPORARY IRISH LITERATURE

Section: 01

Semester: Spring - 2021

Credits: 3

Description:
This course will focus on the Irish home as it is presented with all its anxieties and contradictions in the literature of the past half century. Considering recent Irish fiction, poetry, film, and memoir, we will study the representation of the domestic site in work by Maeve Brennan, Roddy Doyle, Edna O’Brien, Paula Meehan, Theo Dorgan, and others. We will also look at the way Ireland as a nation is a troubled home to non-white Irish people such as Irish-Nigerian writer Emma Dabiri, whose memoir Don’t Touch My Hair (titled Twisted in the American edition) has disturbed and transformed traditional notions of Irish identity; and we will study homelessness as it is represented in the film Adam and Paul, whose protagonists sleep rough in fields outside Dublin. In that film, the Irish nation exists in miniature as a bench that doesn’t quite have enough space for a Romanian immigrant, although an exploding milk carton soaks natives and immigrant alike. Several times during the semester, we will be joined on Zoom by Irish writers, who will talk to us about their work and answer students’ questions. Required work includes regular attendance and participation in our remote but friendly discussions, a mid-term exam, a final exam, an oral report, and a final paper.

Last updated on 2020-09-27 By Lykidis Alexios (lykidisa)

Schedule: Wednesday From 5:30 pm To 8:00 pm

Graduation requirements:

• Any Literature (1e)
• International Issues (3a)
• Women and Gender Studies (3c)

Teaching Faculty: McDiarmid Lucy (mcdiarmidl)

Is course canceled: No