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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Daniela Theinová, Ph.D. (02.02.2022)
Well into the latter half of the last century, women in Ireland (and elsewhere) were considered “not poets, but poetry.” The unprecedented upsurge of poetry by women from the mid-1970s onwards secured women an undisputed place in the centre of the contemporary scene, and brought about fundamental changes in Irish poetry writing and criticism. We will look into the historical circumstances that preceded those changes, unparalleled in many cultures, including the Czech milieu. Combining textual analysis with socio-cultural and theoretical background, we will consider the merits as well as the limits of literary feminism and feminist theory, and trace the recent shift in Irish poetry and literary feminism. The core of our approach will be in close readings and interpretation of poems, written in both English and Irish (the latter through existing translations; no knowledge of the Irish language is required). |
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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Daniela Theinová, Ph.D. (18.09.2018)
MATERIALS Primary texts: Eavan Boland, Collected Poems (Manchester: Carcanet, 1995). Vona Groarke, Juniper Street (Oldcastle: Gallery Press, 2006); Other People’s Houses (Oldcastle: Gallery Press, 1999); Spindrift (Oldcastle: Gallery Press, 2009). Biddy Jenkinson, Rogha Dánta (Cork: Cork University Press, 2000). Aifric Mac Aodha, Gabháil Syrinx (Maynooth: An Sagart, 2010). Medbh McGuckian, The Flower Master and Other Poems (Oldcastle: Gallery Press, 1993); Had I a Thousand Lives (Oldcastle: Gallery Press, 2003); The Currach Requires no Harbours (Oldcastle: Gallery Press, 2006). Paula Meehan, The Man Who Was Marked by Winter (Oldcastle: Gallery Press, 1991); Pillow Talk (Oldcastle: Gallery Press, 1994). Sinéad Morrissey, The State of Prisons (Manchester: Carcanet, 2005), Parallax (Manchester: Carcanet, 2013). Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Selected Poems (Oldcastle: Gallery Press, 2008). Nuala NÍ Dhomhnaill, Selected Poems: Rogha Dánta (Dublin: Raven Arts Press, 1989); The Water Horse (Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 2000); The Fifty Minute Mermaid (Oldcastle: Gallery Press, 2007). O’Reilly, Caitríona. The Nowhere Birds (Tarset: Bloodaxe Books, 2001); The Sea Cabinet (Tarset: Bloodaxe Books, 2006).
Recommended secondary reading: Eavan Boland, Object Lessons (Manchester: Carcanet, 2006). Patricia Boyle Haberstroh, Women Creating Women (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1996). Rosi Braidotti, Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011). Fran Brearton and Alan Gillis,eds., The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012). Claire Connolly, ed., Theorizing Ireland (Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2003). Matthew Campbell, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003). Patricia Coughlan, “‘Bog Queens’: The Representations of Women in the Poetry of John Montague and Seamus Heaney,” Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing: Irish Women’s Writings and Traditions, Vol. 4 (Cork: Cork University Press, 2002). Michael Cronin, Translating Ireland: Translation, Languages, Cultures (Cork: Cork University Press, 1996) Translation and Identity (London; New York: Routledge, 2006). Declan Kiberd, Inventing Ireland: The Literature of the Modern Nation (Jonathan Cape, 1995); Irish Classics (London: Granta Books, 2001). Edna Longley, The Living Stream: Literature and Revisionism in Ireland (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, 1994). Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Selected Essays (Dublin : New Island Books, 2005); “Introduction: Contemporary Poetry,” Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing: Irish Women’s Writings and Tradition, Vol. 4, (Cork: Cork University Press, 2002). Máirín Nic Eoin, B’ait Leo Bean: Gnéithe den Idé-eolaíocht Inscne I dTraidisiún Liteartha na Gaeilge (Dublin: An Clóchomhar, 1998); “Sovereignty and Politics, c. 1300-1900,” Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing: Irish Women’s Writings and Traditions (Vol. 4. Cork: Cork University Press, 2002). Justin Quinn, The Cambridge Introduction to Modern Irish Poetry, 1800-2000 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008). Ailbhe Smyth, ed., Irish Women’s Studies Reader, Dublin: Attic Press, 1993. Clair Wills, Improprieties: Politics and Sexuality in Northern Irish Poetry (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993). |
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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Daniela Theinová, Ph.D. (18.09.2018)
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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Daniela Theinová, Ph.D. (02.02.2022)
SYLLABUS NB: For an updated syllabus, reading materials and other details go to the course Moodle site. Contemporary Irish Poetry: Feminism and Beyond (Moodle) Please note that there will be no class on February 22. 1. 2. (2 weeks) 3. (2 weeks) 4. (2 weeks) 5. (2 weeks) 6. (1 week) 7. |