Gender Troubles: Performative Identities in Modern Irish Writing - AAALC024A

• Title: Gender Troubles: Performative Identities in Modern Irish Writing
• Guaranteed by: Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2018
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer 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
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: doc. Clare Wallace, M.A., Ph.D.

Annotation

OBJECTIVES
The course will begin with an examination of gendered tropes that inform turn of the century representations of Irish
identity?Mother Ireland, Kathleen Ní Houlihan and (tragic) Celtic heroines. In reference to Judith Butler?s theory of identity as
performance, Gender Trouble (1990), we will explore themes of gender identity, gendered tropes, transgression and
dysfunction in a selection of work by twentieth century Irish writers including: Lady Augusta Gregory, Grainne; John
Millington Synge Deirdre of the Sorrows / In the Shadow of the Glen; Kate O?Brien Mary Lavelle; Edna O?Brien The Country
Girls; Seamus Heaney selected poems; Eavan Boland selected poems; Tom Kilroy The Death and Resurrection of Mr
Roche; Frank McGuinness, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme / Dolly West?s Kitchen; Eilís Ní
Dhuibhne Short stories from Eating Women is Not Recommended / The Dancers Dancing; Patrick McCabe Breakfast on
Pluto; Roddy Doyle, The Woman Who Walked in to Doors; Emma Donoghue, Stir-Fry / Ladies and Gentlemen; Anne
Enright, The Wig My Father Wore; Conor McPherson, Port Authority / Shining City; Marina Carr Low in the Dark, Woman
and Scarecrow.

Full syllabus http://www.english-department-prague.cz/

Last update: Znojemská Helena, Mgr., Ph.D. (27.12.2017)

Literature

Full syllabus http://www.english-department-prague.cz/

Last update: Znojemská Helena, Mgr., Ph.D. (27.12.2017)

Teaching methods

seminář

Last update: Znojemská Helena, Mgr., Ph.D. (27.12.2017)