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123043 PS Proseminar Literature / Literary Studies (2016S)

The Irish Revival (A)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik
Continuous assessment of course work
Moodle

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Details

max. 25 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Thursday 17.03. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Thursday 07.04. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Thursday 14.04. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Thursday 21.04. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Thursday 28.04. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Thursday 12.05. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Thursday 19.05. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Thursday 02.06. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Thursday 09.06. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Thursday 16.06. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Thursday 23.06. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Thursday 30.06. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The Irish Literary Revival (also called the Irish Literary Renaissance/Celtic Twilight) was a flowering of Irish literary talent in the late 19th and early 20th century. The literary movement was associated with a revival of interest in Ireland's Gaelic heritage and the growth of Irish nationalism from the middle of the 19th century.
The aim of this course is to study in detail a period of Irish history through its cultural and specifically literary production, across a range of genres and contexts. Its secondary aims are to understand the concept of Revival and how it might apply to Ireland at this pivotal moment in its modern history and to begin to theorise the relationship between acts of writing/reading and social/political transformation. A number of exemplary texts from this period will be dealt with in more detail.
An extensive description is available on the course's Moodle page (course booklet) .
For some more information on Professor Lance Pettitt, please see his personal Website at: www.lancepettitt.com/

Assessment and permitted materials

Participation (20%), presentation (30%); essay (2,500 words or approx. 15pp) (50%). For more details see course booklet on this course's Moodle page.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

For details see this course's Moodle page (course booklet).

Examination topics

For details see this course's Moodle page (course booklet).

Reading list

Primary texts: J.P. Harrington's "Modern Irish Drama" (London/New York: Norton, 1991) contains all major drama texts on the course and it has useful critical material as well (Shaw, Synge Lady Gregory, Yeats); J. Joyce "Dubliners" (London: New Penguin, ed. T. Brown, 1992 [1914]); Selected stories from G. Moore "The Untilled Field" [Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, (1904] 1990); E. Somerville & V. Martin "All Along the Irish Shore: Irish Sketches" (London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1917); O. Wilde, "The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Writing", ed. J. Bristow (London: Routledge, 1990); W.B. Yeats, "Selected Poems" [Macmillan, 1980].
For more details please see this course's Moodle page (course booklet).

Association in the course directory

Studium: UF 344, BA 612; BEd 046
Code/Modul: UF 3.3.3-304, BA10.1; BEd 08a.1, BEd 08b.2
Lehrinhalt: 12-3041

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