Anglo-Irish Literature

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

 

1. Irish Gothic fiction

 

1. The Celtic Revival

 

1. 4.Irish Literary Revival - Abbey Theatre

 

1. Irish modernism

 

1. Irish poetry after the Celtic Revival

 

1. Irish prose after the Celtic Revival

 

1. The end of Anglo-Irish literature

 

1. Irish drama after the Celtic Revival

 

1. Contemporary Irish prose in English

 

1. Contemporary Irish poetry in English

 

Reading list

Maria Edgeworth "Castle Rackrent"

Sheridan le Fanu - "In a Glass Darkly"

William Butler Yeats "The Celtic Twilight"

John Millington Synge "Playboy of the Western World"

James Joyce "Dubliners"

Patrick Kavanagh "The Great Hunger"

Frank O'Connor and Seán O'Faoláin - chosen short stories

Elizabeth Bowen "The Last September"

Samuel Beckett and Brian Friel - chosen plays

Seamus Heaney - chosen poems

Claire Keegan "Foster"