AJ16064 Aspects of Modern Irish Literature and Culture

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2012
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)
Mgr. Vital Voranau (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Supplier department: Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Tue 15:50–17:25 G24
Prerequisites (in Czech)
AJ09999 Qualifying Examination || AJ01002 Practical English 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
The course will focus on aspects of Irish literature in English and their cultural context, focusing primarily on works and writers from the late ninteenth and early twentieth centuries in order to eamine ways in which they challenge and develop aspects of nationalism, imperialism, language, social and cultural identity and, in particular, ethics and aesthetics.
Syllabus
  • Week 1: 21st February: Introductory Week 2 28th February: O. Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray Week 3 6th March: G.B. Shaw: John Bull's Other Island/Pygmalion Week 4 13th March: W.B. Yeats: Selected Poems:The Lake Isle of Innisfree; Easter 1916; Leda & the Swan; Crazy Jane talks to the Bishop; The Circus Animals' Desertion Week 5:20th March: J.M. Synge: The Playboy of the Western World Week 6:27th March: J. Joyce: Dubliners Week 7:3rd April: J. Joyce: Ulysses: Cyclops; Nausicaa Week 8:10th April: NO LESSON: READING WEEK Week 9:17th April:S. Beckett: More Pricks than Kicks : Dante & the Lobster: Fingal Week 10:24th April: S. Beckett:Waiting For Godot Week 11: 1st May: NO LESSON: PUBLIC HOLIDAY Week 12: 8th May: NO LESSON: PUBLIC HOLIDAY Week 13: 15th May: S. Beckett: Catastrophe, Act Without Words I&II, Breath
Literature
  • FRIEL, Brian. Translations (Obsaž.) : Plays. 1 [Friel, 1996]. info
  • Samuel Beckett More Pricks than Kicks London Calder & Boyars
  • W.B. Yeats Selected Poems London Penguin
  • WILDE, Oscar. The importance of being earnest. Edited by Susan Kingsley. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, 42 s. ISBN 0194228568. info
  • BECKETT, Samuel. Waiting for Godot : a tragicomedy in two acts. London: Faber and Faber, 2000, 87 s. ISBN 0571058086. info
  • KIBERD, Declan. Inventing Ireland : the literature of the modern nation. London: Vintage, 1996, xvi, 719 s. ISBN 0-09-958221-X. info
  • SYNGE, J. M. The playboy of the western world and Riders to the sea. New York: Dover, 1993, 72 s. ISBN 0-486-27562-0. info
  • JOYCE, James. Dubliners. Edited by Terence Brown. London: Penguin Books, 1992, 316 s. ISBN 0-14-018554-2. info
  • JOYCE, James. Ulysses. Edited by Declan Kiberd. Annotated student's ed. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1992, lxxxviii,. ISBN 0-14-018559-3. info
  • WILDE, Oscar. The picture of Dorian Gray. Edited by Isobel Murray - James Murray. London: Oxford University Press, 1974, xxxiv, 249. ISBN 0192553682. info
Teaching methods
The course will be co-taught by two teachers, employing a methodology focusing on seminar discussion, close reading and the relation of textual analyis to the broader context of social, political and aesthetic concerns.
Assessment methods
The course will be assessed by a combination of class contribution (40%) and essay (5-7) pages.Please note that thr essay is an exam and that you need to register for it.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2013, Spring 2016.
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