Irish Literature: An Introduction - AAA111003

• Title: Úvod do irské literatury
• Guaranteed by: Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2011
• Semester: winter
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Is provided by: AAA132005
• Guarantor: prof. Mgr. Ondřej Pilný, Ph.D.

Annotation

English

A survey course designed to introduce some of Ireland?s major authors and discuss their work in its broader cultural and
political context (Irish, Anglophone, and European respectively).

Last update: UAAZNOJE (27.05.2008)

Czech

Kurs si klade za cíl seznámit studenty se základními díly kánonu irské literatury psané v angličtině.

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Literature

BASIC BIBLIOGRAPHY

General:

Kelleher, Margaret and Philip O'Leary, eds. The Cambridge History of Irish Literature, Vol. 2, 1890-2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Joyce:

Frawley, Oona, ed. A New and Complex Sensation: Essays on Joyce's Dubliners. Dublin: Lilliput Press, 2004.

Ellmann, Richard. James Joyce. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1974.

Levin, Harry. James Joyce: A Critical Introduction. London: Faber, 1960.

Derek Attridge, ed. The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Synge:

Hogan, Robert, and James Kilroy. The Abbey Theatre: The Years of Synge 1905-1909. Dublin: The Dolmen Press, 1978. (available from the instructor)

Grene, Nicholas. The Politics of Irish Drama. Plays in Context from Boucicault to Friel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Bloom, Harold, ed. John Millington Synge's The Playboy of the Western World. New York: Chelsea House, 1988. (available from the instructor)

Levitas, Ben. The Theatre of Nation: Irish Drama and Cultural Nationalism, 1890-1916. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002.

Pilný, Ondřej. Irony and Identity in Modern Irish Drama. Praha: Litteraria Pragensia, 2006.

Yeats:

Yeats, W.B. Poems. Ed. and annot. A. Norman Jeffares. London: Macmillan, 1996.

Foster, R.F. W.B. Yeats: A Life. I. The Apprentice Mage. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

• --. W.B. Yeats: A Life. II. The Arch-Poet. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Brown, Terence. The Life of W.B. Yeats: A Critical Biography. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1999.

Howes, Marjorie and John Kelly. The Cambridge Companion to W.B. Yeats. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

O'Connor:

Steinman, Michael. Frank O'Connor at Work. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1990.

Foster, R.F. Modern Ireland, 1600-1972. London: Penguin, 1989. (Chapters 19, 20.)

Hill, J.R., ed. A New History of Ireland, VII: Ireland 1921-1984. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003

Bowen:

Corcoran, Neil. Elizabeth Bowen: The Enforced Return. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004.

Foster, R.F. "The Irishness of Elizabeth Bowen." Paddy and Mr Punch. Connections in Irish and English History. London: Penguin, 1995. (available from the instructor)

• --. "Prints on the Scene: Elizabeth Bowen and the Landscape of Childhood." The Irish Story. Telling Tales and Making It up in Ireland. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Kavanagh:

Quinn, Antoinette. Patrick Kavanagh: Born-Again Romantic. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1993.

• --. Patrick Kavanagh: A Biography. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 2003.

Brown, Terence. Ireland: A Social and Cultural History, 1922-1985. London: Fontana, 1985. (Chapter 6.)

• --. "After the Revival: Seán O Faoláin and Patrick Kavanagh." Ireland's Literature: Selected Essays. Dublin: Lilliput Press, 1988.

O'Brien:

Hopper, Keith. Flann O'Brien: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Post-modernist. Cork: Cork University Press, 1995.

Booker, M. Keith. Flann O'Brien, Bakhtin and Menippean Satire. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1995.

Lanters, José. Unauthorized Versions: Irish Menippean Satire, 1919-1952. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2000.

Pilný, Ondřej. "Cycling Round The Bend: Interpretation and Punishment in Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman," Litteraria Pragensia 7.13 (1997): 41-50.

Cronin, Anthony. No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann O'Brien. London: Paladin, 1990.

Beckett:

Knowlson, James. Damned to Fame. The Life of Samuel Beckett. London: Bloomsbury, 1996.

Pilling, John, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Beckett. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Ackerley, C.J. and S.E. Gontarski, eds. The Grove Companion to Samuel Beckett. New York: Grove Press, 2004.

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Teaching methods

seminář

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Syllabus

1. Introductory

2.-3. James Joyce, "The Dead"

4.-5. J.M. Synge, The Playboy of the Western World

6.-7. W.B. Yeats, "Sailing to Byzantium," "Meditations in Time of Civil War"

8. Frank O'Connor, "Guests of the Nation"

9. Elizabeth Bowen, "Sunday Afternoon," "Hand in Glove"

10. Patrick Kavanagh, The Great Hunger

11. Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman (extracts)

12. Samuel Beckett, All That Fall

Last update: UAAZNOJE (30.05.2008)