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Last update: Mgr. Radvan Markus, Ph.D. (22.09.2021)
THIS CODE WAS CREATED SPECIFICALLY FOR ERASMUS STUDENTS who need a grade for this course. The course is only open to DALC incoming Erasmus students. The seminar focuses on the dynamics between tradition and innovation in Irish literature since the ‘revivals’ at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth century. Due attention will be given to the phenomenon of modernism (defined very broadly) as an approach to tradition that yields innovative results. The course discusses both English-language classics and relatively less known authors in the Irish language, paying attention to the interactions between the two literary cultures. Knowledge of the Irish language is welcome, but not necessary, as the relevant texts will be made available also in English (or Czech) translations. SCHEDULE Week 1 (7/10) Introduction, Irish Literary Revival Week 2 (14/10) No class (workshop) Week 3 (21/10) Irish Literary Revival Read: J. M. Synge, The Playboy of the Western World, The Shadow of the Glen Week 4 (28/10) No class (national holiday) Week 5 (4/11) Gaelic Revival Read: Pádraic Ó Conaire, Deoraíocht / Exile Week 6 (11/11) James Joyce & Tradition Read: James Joyce, “Cyclops,” Ulysses Week 7 (18/11) Irish-language Autobiographies Read: Tomás Ó Criomhthain, An tOileánach / The Islander (selection) Seosamh Mac Grianna, Mo Bhealach Féin / My Own Journey (chapters 1, 2, 12) Week 8 (25/11) Flann O’Brien’s An Béal Bocht Read: Flann O’Brien, An Béal Bocht / The Poor Mouth Week 9 (2/12) Tradition and Innovation in Irish Music Read: Seán Ó Riada: Our Musical Heritage (selection) Week 10 (9/12) Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s Cré na Cille Read: Máirtín Ó Cadhain, Cré na Cille / Graveyard Clay (at least the first three interludes) Week 11 (16/12) Máirtín Ó Cadhain & Samuel Beckett Read: Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot Weeks 12 (6/1) Modernist Approaches to History Read: Stewart Parker, Northern Star CREDIT REQUIREMENTS 1. Regular attendance and active participation in debates (based on the assigned reading). A maximum of 2 unexplained absences is allowed. 2. Submission of draft answers to the assigned questions on a week-to-week basis. These may have the form of notes or a short text, the recommended length is about 300 words. Please send them to radvan.markus@ff.cuni.cz by 8:00 on the day of the given class. 3. A final essay (minimal length 3 000 words), submitted by e-mail in MS Word format (or compatible). Deadline for essays: 31 January. Students wishing to be awarded an exam grade in the course are required to submit, in addition to the above, a graded research paper (min. 5000 words). Essay topics must be discussed with the instructor in advance. PLEASE NOTE: Essays must include full bibliographical references and footnotes for all works cited or paraphrased (in accordance with the MLA style – consult “essay guidelines” on the department website). Students are advised not to use Internet sources in place of adequately researching texts available in print. Plagiarism will not be tolerated and will result in a fail grade. |
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Last update: Mgr. Radvan Markus, Ph.D. (11.09.2019)
BASIC BIBLIOGRAPHY (in English) Attridge, Derek. The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce (Cambridge: CUP, 2004). Hopper, Keith. Flann O’Brien: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Post-Modernist. Cork: Cork University Press, 2009. Kelleher, Margaret and Philip O’Leary, eds. The Cambridge History of Irish Literature, Vol. 2, 1890-2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Kiberd, Declan. Synge and the Irish Language. London: Macmillan,1993. Kiberd, Declan. Inventing Ireland: the literature of the modern nation.Cambridge,Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996. Kiberd, Declan. Irish Classics. London: Granta Books, 2001. Mathews, P. J.. The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Synge. Cambridge: CUP, 2009. Markus, Radvan. Echoes of the Rebellion: The Year 1798 in Twentieth-Century Irish Fiction and Drama. Bern: Peter Lang, 2015. Markus, Radvan. “John Millington Synge and Pádraic Ó Conaire: Unexpected Fellow Travellers between Romanticism, Realism and Beyond.” Prague Studies of English 1 (2016): 55-69. Markus, Radvan. “Jazyk a identita v románu Řeči pro pláč Briana O’Nolana.” Vektory kulturního vývoje: identity, utopie, hrdinové. Ed. Petr A. Bílek, Martin Procházka, Jan Wiendl. Praha: FFUK, 2016, 62-78. Markus, Radvan. “The Carnivalesque against Entropy: Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s Cré na Cille.” Litteraria Pragensia 28.55 (2018): 56-69. O’Leary, Philip. Gaelic Prose in the Irish Free State, 1922-1939. University Park: Pennsylvania State Univ. Press, 2004. O’Leary, Philip. Irish interior: keeping faith with the past in Gaelic prose, 1940-1951. Dublin : University College Dublin Press, 2010. O’Leary, Philip. Prose Literature of the Gaelic Revival, 1881-1921: Ideology and Innovation. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994. O’Leary, Philip. Writing beyond the revival : facing the future in Gaelic prose, 1940-1951. Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2011. Pilný, Ondřej. Irony and Identity in Modern Irish Drama. Praha: Litteraria Pragensia, 2006. Tymoczko, Maria. The Irish Ulysses. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. |
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Last update: Mgr. Andrea Hermanová (31.08.2017)
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