General information

Course type AMUPIE
Module title Anglo-Irish Literature
Language English
Module lecturer dr Joanna Jarząb-Napierała
Lecturer's email jj4887@amu.edu.pl
Lecturer position adiunkt
Faculty Faculty of English
Semester 2025/2026 (summer)
Duration 30
ECTS 3
USOS code 15-LAI-AMU-PIE

Timetable

Module aim (aims)

1. Providing knowledge about the history of Anglo-Irish literature and Irish literature in English language

2. Developing thr skill of close-reading analysis of literary tests

3. developing the skill of critical analysis of literary texts

4. developing the skill of using appropriate terminology

 

Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant)

The student should have the knowledge from previous courses in the History of British Literature. 

Syllabus

1. The first Anglo-Irish novel

 

2. Irish Gothic fiction

 

3. The Celtic Revival

 

4.Irish Literary Revival - Abbey Theatre

 

5. Irish modernism

 

6. Irish poetry after the Celtic Revival

 

7. Irish prose after the Celtic Revival 

 

8. The end of Anglo-Irish literature

 

9. Irish drama after the Celtic Revival

 

10. Contemporary Irish prose in English

 

11. Contemporary Irish poetry in English

Reading list

  1. Maria Edgeworth "Castle Rackrent"
  2. Sheridan le Fanu - "In a Glass Darkly"
  3. William Butler Yeats "The Celtic Twilight"
  4. John Millington Synge "Playboy of the Western World"
  5. James Joyce "Dubliners" 
  6. Patrick Kavanagh "The Great Hunger"
  7. Frank O'Connor and Seán O'Faoláin - chosen short stories
  8. Elizabeth Bowen "The Last September"
  9. Samuel Beckett and Brian Friel - chosen plays
  10. Seamus Heaney - chosen poems
  11. Claire Keegan "Foster"