AJ16057 Irish History and Culture

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2006
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus 2 credits for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Stephen Paul Hardy, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Timetable
Thu 18:20–19:55 G22
Prerequisites (in Czech)
AJ09999 Qualifying Examination && AJ06002 Intro. to British Studies II
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/20
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives (in Czech)
In parallel with brief considerations of fundamental aspects of history,geography language and identity, the course will focus firstly on elements of the writing of classic early twentieth century writers and then move to the work of more contemporary figures. In both cases the emphasis will be as much on the way in which such writing expresses, dramatises and negotiates cultural issues raised in the early seminars as on the writers' art.
Syllabus (in Czech)
  • Week 1: Sept.28th: NO LESSON: NATIONAL HOLIDAY Week 2: Oct.5th:Introductory Week 3 Oct.12th: Oscar Wilde: Irish identity Week 4: Oct.19th: G.B. Shaw: John Bull's Other Island: Irish history before 1689 Week 5: Oct.26th: W.B.Yeats:selected poetry:Ascendancy culture Week 6: Nov.2nd: J.M. Synge: The Playboy of the Western World: 19th C - 1789,Reform, Famine, Parnell Week 7: Nov.9th: James Joyce: selected extracts from Ulysses: The Easter Rising & Anglo-Irish & Civil Wars Week 8: Nov.16th: Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot: The Republic of Ireland Week 9: Nov.23rd: Seamus Heaney et al: selected poetry: Northern Ireland Week 10:Nov.30th: Brian Friel: Translations Week 11:Dec.7th: Margaret O'Riordan: Involved;Bernard MacLaverty:Cal Week 12:Dec.14th: Nuala ni Dhomnaill, Eavan Boland et al: selected poetry ; Irish Film Week 13:Dec 21st Neil Jordan: Angel (film)
Literature
  • Foster, R. F. Modern Ireland 1600-1972 London Penguin 1989
  • Bolger, Dermot Contemporary Irish Fiction London Picador 2000 ISBN 0-330-37216-5
  • Graham , Brian (ed.) In Search of Ireland London Routledge 1997 ISBN0-415-15008-6
  • Cairns, D. Richards S. Writing Ireland: Colonialism, Nationalism and Culture Manchester Manchester University Press 1988
  • KIBERD, Declan. Inventing Ireland : the literature of the modern nation. London: Vintage, 1996, xvi, 719 s. ISBN 0-09-958221-X. info
  • KEE, Robert. Ireland :a history. Compl. rev. and updated ed. London: Abacus, 1995, 302 s., [1. ISBN 0-349-10678-9. info
  • ARDAGH, John. Ireland and the Irish :portrait of a changing society. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1995, xiii, 479. ISBN 0-14-017160-6. info
  • JOYCE, James. Ulysses. Edited by Declan Kiberd. Annotated student's ed. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1992, lxxxviii,. ISBN 0-14-018559-3. info
  • HEANEY, Seamus. New selected poems, 1966-1987. London: Faber and Faber, 1990, x, 245. ISBN 0571143725. info
  • MAC LAVERTY, Bernard. Cal. London: Penguin Books, 1984, 153 s. ISBN 0-14-010810-6. info
  • YEATS, W. B. The poems. Edited by Richard J. Finneran. A new ed. London: The MacMillan, 1984, xxv, 747 s. ISBN 0-333-35361-7. info
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Essay (50%), 3 'elf' contributions of 500-1,000 words (25%), class contribution and attendance (25%). Those taking the course for credit need only to fulfil one of the written requirements but must formally notify me that they are taking the course for credit at the beginning of the course.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
Teacher's information
http://elf.phil.muni.cz/elf/course/view.php?id=862
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2002, Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004.
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