AJL16064 Aspects of Modern Irish Literature and Culture

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2024

The course is not taught in Autumn 2024

Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Stephen Paul Hardy, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Stephen Paul Hardy, Ph.D.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Supplier department: Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
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 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/30
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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 examine ways in which they challenge and develop aspects of nationalism, imperialism, language, social and cultural identity and, in particular, ethics and aesthetics.This semester's course will focus almost on the work of W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge and James Joyce, appraoching the texts selcted through a combination of close reading and discussion in class and culminating in the writing of an analytical essay
Learning outcomes
Students who have completed the course will have gained a better understanding of Irish history, culture and society as particularly expressed through the work of major twentieth century Irish authors.
Syllabus
  • Week 1:Sept.19th: ORIENTATION WEEK: NO CLASS Week 2:Sept 26th: (DUE TO SYMPOSIUM ATTENDANCE): NO CLASS (CLASS WILL BE REPLACED IN READING WEEK (Oct 31st) Week 3:Oct. 3rd: Introductory: Irish History and (Anglo-Irish) Literature Week 4: Oct.10th:W.B.Yeats:When You Are Old; The Secret Rose; O, Do Not Love Too Long; No Second Troy; September 1913: Easter 1916; Ninetten Hundred and Nineteen Week 5:Oct. 17th: W.B.Yeats: Leda and the Swan; Sailing to Byzantium; The Tower; Byzantium Week 6:0ct.24th W.B. Yeats: Among Schoolchildren: Crazy Jane on God; Crazy Jane talks with the Bishop; The Circus Animals Desertion Week 7: READING WEEK BUT THERE IS A CLASS(see Week 2)!:J.M. Synge: The Playboy of the Western World (The Aran Islands) Week 8: Nov.7th: J. Joyce: Dubliners(1) The Sisters; An Encounter; Araby Week 9: Nov. 14th:J. Joyce: Dubliners(2): Eveline; A Painful Case;Ivy Day In the Committee Room Week 10:Nov. 21st:J. Joyce: Dubliners(3): A Mother; Grace; The Dead Week 11:Nov. 28th:J. Joyce: Ulysses(1):Telemachus(1); Nestor(2); Proteus (3) Week 12:Dec.5th:J. Joyce: Ulysses(2): Calypso (4): Lotos-Eaters (5); Lestrygonians (8): Wandering Rocks (10) Week 13:Dec. 12th: J. Joyce: Ulysses(3): Sirens (11) Cyclops (12);Nausicaa(13) Ithaca (17); Penelope (18)
Literature
  • FRIEL, Brian. Translations (Obsaž.) : Plays. 1 [Friel, 1996]. info
  • W.B. Yeats Selected Poems London Penguin
  • Samuel Beckett More Pricks than Kicks London Calder & Boyars
  • 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
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
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