Universität Wien

124267 AR Cultural/Media Studies 1/2 (AR) (2015W)

The Irish Outlaw: The Making of a Nationalist Icon

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung
Moodle

An/Abmeldung

Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").

Details

max. 25 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Freitag 16.10. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Freitag 23.10. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Freitag 30.10. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Freitag 06.11. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Freitag 13.11. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Freitag 20.11. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Freitag 27.11. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Freitag 04.12. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Freitag 11.12. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Freitag 18.12. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Freitag 08.01. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Freitag 15.01. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Freitag 22.01. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Freitag 29.01. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

The Outlaw occupies a pivotal position in the history, popular culture and fiction of Ireland, Britain, America and Australia. Historians, however, have often found it difficult to follow these elusive figures through the battlefields, bogs, borderlands, badlands and bush. This has not been made easier by the transformation of the bandit and outlaw in Irish, British, American and Australian historiography and hagiography. The popular historians, political commentators and reporters of the late eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries often portrayed him as a 'noble robber' and Robin Hood-like figure. Irish nationalists in the nineteenth and twentieth century viewed him as a prototype nationalist icon: the 'outlaw rapparee' would be eulogized in popular song, chapbook and verse. He has remained the focus of a number of recent popular histories, documentaries and films.
The module is designed to provide students with an outline of the most significant events, trends and developments in the history and historiography of the Irish outlaw since the early modern period.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

The course will be assessed by the following criteria:
1. Attendance and participation in class
2. A short essay (see essay titles on Moodle page)
3. A two-hour exam on the last day of class. Students will be asked to write 10 short paragraphs (10 lines each) on ten topics out of 25.

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

- To provide an introduction to the history of the Irish Outlaw
- To introduce key historical and historiographical discussion and debates
- To develop skills of critical analysis, argument and formal academic writing
- To encourage engagement with alternative historical viewpoints
- To enhance the adaptation to independent patterns of study characteristic of third-level Education

Prüfungsstoff

Lectures, seminars, tutorials, discussion groups and screenings per week.

Literatur

- Burke, P., Popular culture in early modern Europe (London, 1978)
- Hobsbawm, E. Bandits (London, 2002)
- Gattrell, V.A.C., The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People, 1770-1868 (Oxford,1994)
- Moore, T., The Memoirs of Captain Rock, ed. Emer Nolan (Dublin, 2008)
- Ó Ciardha, É., ‘The Irish Outlaw: the making of a nationalist icon’, in J. Kelly, J. McCafferty and I. McGrath (eds), People and politics in Ireland: Essays on Irish History, 166001850 in honour of James I McGuire (UCD, 2009), pp 51-70
- Ó Ciosáin, N., ‘The Irish Rogues’, in Donnelly, J. and Miller, K. (ed.), Irish popular culture1650-1850 (Dublin, 1998), 78-97
All texts will be provided as handouts or are available at Google Books.

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Studium: MA 844; UF MA 046
Code/Modul: MA5; MA6, MA7; UF MA 4A
Lehrinhalt: 12-4261

Letzte Änderung: Mo 07.09.2020 15:33