AJ16074 Representing Ireland

Filozofická fakulta
podzim 2017
Rozsah
0/2/0. 2 kr. (plus 2 za zk). Doporučované ukončení: zk. Jiná možná ukončení: z.
Vyučující
James Joseph Little, M.Phil., Ph.D. (přednášející)
Garance
doc. PhDr. Jana Chamonikolasová, Ph.D.
Katedra anglistiky a amerikanistiky – Filozofická fakulta
Kontaktní osoba: Tomáš Hanzálek
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Katedra anglistiky a amerikanistiky – Filozofická fakulta
Rozvrh
Čt 14:10–15:45 G32
Předpoklady
AJ09999 Postupová zkouška || AJ01002 Anglický jazyk II
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je nabízen i studentům mimo mateřské obory.
Předmět si smí zapsat nejvýše 35 stud.
Momentální stav registrace a zápisu: zapsáno: 0/35, pouze zareg.: 0/35, pouze zareg. s předností (mateřské obory): 0/35
Mateřské obory/plány
předmět má 8 mateřských oborů, zobrazit
Cíle předmětu
This course analyses literary representations of major historical and political events in Ireland from the years of the Irish Literary Revival to the end of World War II. On completion of this course, students will have a good understanding of Irish cultural history of the period as well as a close working knowledge of key works in poetry, prose and drama. We will assess the role that these texts play in social critique and their relation to the cultural conditions of the time.
Osnova
  • Week 1 Representing Ireland on stage: Augusta Gregory and W.B. Yeats, Cathleen ni Houlihan* (Please read this text [pp. 211–21 in Yeats’s Major Works] before our first class.)
    Week 2 Urban paralysis: James Joyce, ‘The Sisters’; ‘Eveline’; ‘The Dead’
    Week 3 Rural paralysis: John Millington Synge, In the Shadow of the Glen
    Week 4 Writing Ireland’s Land Acts: Bernard Shaw, John Bull’s Other Island
    Week 5 Poems of World War I (1914–18): W.B. Yeats, ‘An Irish Airman Foresees his Death’; Francis Ledwidge, ‘The Irish in Gallipoli’; C.S. Lewis, ‘Apology’
    Week 6 Poems of the 1916 Rising: Patrick Pearse, ‘The Mother’; W.B. Yeats, ‘Easter 1916’; Eva Gore-Booth, ‘Easter Week’
    Week 7 Staging the War of Independence (1919–21): Seán O’Casey, The Shadow of a Gunman
    Week 8 Stories of the Civil War (1922–23): Liam O'Flaherty, ‘The Sniper’; Seán O'Faoláin, ‘The Patriot’
    Week 9 The Big House in the Free State: Elizabeth Bowen, The Last September
    Week 10 Stasis in the home: Teresa Deevy, The King of Spain’s Daughter; Patrick Kavanagh, ‘The Great Hunger’
    Week 11 Ireland’s Emergency (1939–45): Louis MacNeice, ‘Autumn Journal’, sections I, V and XVI; ‘Bottleneck’; ‘Neutrality’

    NOTE: There will be no class on 26 October. This class has been rescheduled for Thursday 16 November (during Reading Week) at the same time (14:10–15:45) in the same classroom (G32).
Metody hodnocení
Students will be assessed on an end-of-term essay of 1,500–2,000 words, written according to a recognised style guide of their choice. (The MHRA Style Guide is available here: www.mhra.org.uk/pdf/MHRA-Style-Guide-3rd-Edn.pdf.) Active participation in class discussion required in order to receive a credit for the course.
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Informace učitele
http://www.phil.muni.cz/plonedata/wkaa/Dokumenty/ostatni/Representing%20Ireland.docx
It is strongly recommended that you read the following text before the course starts: Declan Kiberd, Inventing Ireland: The Literature of a Modern Nation (London: Vintage, 1996).

All primary texts, as well as some secondary texts, are available on the ELF system as PDF or EPUB files. (A good EPUB reader is available here: www.calibre-ebook.com.) It is crucial that you bring the primary texts (in print or digital form) to class so we can discuss them each week.

Primary Texts
Elizabeth Bowen, The Last September (London: Vintage, 2005)
Gerald Dawe, ed., Earth Voices Whispering: An Anthology of Irish War Poetry 1914–45 (Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 2002)
Teresa Deevy, The King of Spain’s Daughter and Other One-Act Plays (Dublin: New Frontiers Press, 1947)
James Joyce, Dubliners (London: Penguin, 1995)
Patrick Kavanagh, Collected Poems, ed. by Antoinette Quinn (London: Penguin, 2005)
Louis MacNeice, Collected Poems (London: Faber, 1987)
Flann O’Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds (London: Penguin, 2001)
Seán O’Casey, Three Plays (London: MacMillan, 1970)
Seán Ó’Faoláin, Midsummer Night Madness and Other Stories (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986)
Liam O’Flaherty, The Short Stories of Liam O’Flaherty (Sevenoaks: New English Library, 1986)
Bernard Shaw, John Bull’s Other Island (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1994)
John Millington Synge, The Playboy of the Western World and Other Plays, ed. by Ann Saddlemyer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008)
W.B. Yeats, The Major Works, ed. by Edward Larrisey (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008)

Secondary texts
Terence Brown, Ireland: A Social and Cultural History, 1922–2002 (London: HarperCollins, 2004)*
Joe Cleary and Claire Connolly, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010)
Roy Foster, Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890–1923 (London: Penguin, 2015)
Nicholas Grene, The Politics of Irish Drama: Plays in Context from Boucicault to Friel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004)
Justin Quinn, The Cambridge Introduction to Modern Irish Poetry, 1800–2000 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008)

*Earlier edition available in the library, running up to 1985, also suitable for this course.
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