Irská literatura - úvod do problematiky - AAA132005

• Anglický název: Irish literature: An Introduction
• Zajišťuje: Ústav anglofonních literatur a kultur (21-UALK)
• Fakulta: Filozofická fakulta
• Platnost: od 2025
• Semestr: zimní
• Body: 0
• E-Kredity: 3
• Způsob provedení zkoušky: zimní s.:
• Rozsah, examinace: zimní s.:0/2, Z [HT]
• Počet míst: neurčen / 15 (neurčen)
• Minimální obsazenost: neomezen
• 4EU+: ne
• Virtuální mobilita / počet míst pro virtuální mobilitu: ne
• Stav předmětu: vyučován
• Jazyk výuky: angličtina
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Další informace: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=1124
• Poznámka: předmět je možno zapsat mimo plán; povolen pro zápis po webu
• Garant: prof. Mgr. Ondřej Pilný, Ph.D.
• Vyučující: prof. Mgr. Ondřej Pilný, Ph.D.

Anotace

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

SCHEDULE
1 Oct Introduction
8 Oct James Joyce, “The Dead”
15 Oct J.M. Synge, The Playboy of the Western World
22 Oct W.B. Yeats, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree,” “The Second Coming”, “Sailing to Byzantium”
29 Oct Frank O’Connor, “Guests of the Nation”; Elizabeth Bowen, “Sunday Afternoon”
5 Nov Patrick Kavanagh, The Great Hunger
12 Nov Flann O’Brien, The Third Policeman
19 Nov No class (Humanities Week)
26 Nov Samuel Beckett, All That Fall
3 Dec Seamus Heaney, “North,” “Punishment,” “Strange Fruit”
10 Dec Stewart Parker, Northern Star
17 Dec Christina Reid, Tea in a China Cup
7 Jan Marina Carr, By the Bog of Cats



QUESTIONS to guide class discussion: SEE THE COURSE SYLLABUS ON MOODLE

BASIC BIBLIOGRAPHY: SEE THE COURSE SYLLABUS ON MOODLE

ASSESSMENT
Credit requirements consist of the following:
1) Regular attendance and active participation in debates based on the assigned reading.
2) Submission of a written response to the assigned questions on a week-to-week basis. The response must be submitted to the course instructor as an email attachment in MS Word or .odt format by the Tuesday preceding the class session (14:00); the minimum length of the response for each session is 250 words.
3) Submission of a final essay (min. length 2 000 words, Notes and Bibliography Chicago style strictly required). Essay topics must be consulted with the instructor in advance. Students are advised not to use Internet sources in place of adequately researching texts available in print or in academic digital libraries. Plagiarism will not be tolerated and will result in a fail grade. The use of AI in writing the essays is prohibited. Essays are submitted by e-mail to the course instructor (as an MS Word/Open Office document). Deadline for all essays: 20 January 2026.

Poslední úprava: Pilný Ondřej, prof. Mgr., Ph.D. (05.09.2025)