Poslední úprava: Mgr. Helena Znojemská, Ph.D. (16.12.2020)
After Modernism: Irish Poetry in the 20th Century
Daniela Theinová, PhD
Thursday 12:30-14:05, Room 34
Consultation hours: Thursday 14:10-15:00, Room 219b
Email: daniela.theinova@ff.cuni.cz
COURSE DESCRIPTION
OBJECTIVES
This course is based on the reassessment of modernism as a cultural phenomenon with various local expressions
and shared global inspirations. Irish poetry of the 20th century makes an ideal case study of the complex
temporalities and territorial relations of modernism. We will read poetry of the last 120 years and focus on the
dichotomies between nationalism and internationalism as well as tradition and formal experiment that are intrinsic
to the modernist project and that inform Irish poetic production to this day. We will discuss poets ranging from W. B.
Yeats to Paul Muldoon and consider their works alongside some of the key figures of anglophone and global
modernist traditions.
ASSESSMENT
Credit requirements include regular attendance (max. 2 unexplained absences per semester), active participation
in the seminar based on the reading of assigned texts, one in-class presentation and an essay (of 2500–3000
words) on one of the proposed topics, or a related topic of one’s own choice (to be consulted with the instructor).
To get credits for the class as well as the graded paper, you will need to submit a longer and thoroughly
researched paper of at least 3500 to 4000 words.
Essays must include full bibliographical references and footnotes (included in the word count) for all works cited or
paraphrased (in accordance with the MLA style; see the ESSAY GUIDELINES on the department website for
details: http://ualk.ff.cuni.cz/current-students.html). Emphasis will be placed on depth and sophistication of
argument, and upon the component of original research. Students are advised not to use Internet sources in place
of adequately researching texts available in print. Essays must be presented with attention to correct spelling and
stylistics. Plagiarism will not be tolerated and will result in a fail grade.
The deadline for the submission of essays is 22 June 2019.
Literatura
Poslední úprava: Mgr. Daniela Theinová, Ph.D. (27.01.2020)
MATERIALS
Primary Texts:
Samuel Beckett, The Collected Poems of Samuel Beckett: A Critical Edition (London: Faber and Faber, 2012). Anthoy Bradley, ed., Contemporary Irish Poetry: An Anthology (Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1980). Austin Clarke, Selected Poems (Dublin and Winston-Salem: Dolmen Press, 1976). Denis Devlin, Collected Poems (Dubin: The Deadalus Press, 1989). Padraic Pearse, Selected Poems: Rogha Dánta, edited by Dermot Bolger (Dublin: New Island Books, 1993). Seamus Heaney, Collected Poems (Dublin: RTÉ Lannan, 2009). Patrick Kavanagh, The Complete Poems (Newbridge: Goldsmith Press, 1984). Thomas Kinsella, Collected Poems 1965–1994 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997). Thomas Mac Greevy, in Contemporary Irish Poetry, edited by Anthony Bradley (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1980). Louis MacNeice, Collected Poems, edited by Peter McDonald (London: Faber and Faber, 2007). John Montague, New Selected Poems (Oldcastle: Gallery, 1989). Sinéad Morrissey, Parallax (Manchester: Carcanet, 2013). Sinéad Morrissey, There was Fire in Vancouver (Manchester: Carcanet, 1996). Paul Muldoon, Poems 1968–1998 (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002). Máirtín Ó Direáin, Selected Poems: Rogha Dánta, edited and translated by Tomás Mac Síomóin and Douglas Sealy (Newbridge: Goldsmith Press, 1984). Seán Ó Ríordáin, Na Dánta (Indreabhán: Cló Iar-Connachta, 2011). W. B. Yeats, The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats, edited by Richard J. Finneran (New York: Palgrave, 1993).
Recommended Secondary Reading:
Samuel Beckett, ‘Recent Irish Poetry’, in Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, vol. 3, gen. ed. Seamus Deane (Derry: Field Day Co., 1991), 244–8. Fran Brearton and Alan Gillis, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012). Terence Brown, The Literature of Ireland: Culture and Criticism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010). Matthew Campbell, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003). Joe Cleary, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Irish Modernism (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004). Patricia Coughlan and Alex Davis, eds., Modernism and Ireland: The Poetry of the 1930s (Cork: Cork University Press, 1995). Alex Davis, A Broken Line: Denis Devlin and Irish Poetic Modernism (Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2000). Alex Davis and Lee M. Jenkins, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007). Sarah Cole, At the Violet Hour: Modernism and Violence in England and Ireland (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012). Alan Gillis, Irish Poetry of the 1930s (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). Seamus Heaney, 'Learning from Eliot', Finders Keepers: Selectec Prose 1971-2001 (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giiroux, 2002), 29-41. Seamus Heaney, 'The Makings of a Music: Reflections on Wordsworth and Yeats', Preoccupations: Selected Prose 1968-1978 (London: Faber and Faber, 1980), 61-78. Douglas Hyde, ‘The Necessity for De-Anglicising Ireland’ (extract), in Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, vol. 2, gen. ed. Seamus Deane (Derry: Field Day Co., 1991), 527–33. Edwina Keown and Carol Taaffe, eds., Irish Modernism: Origins, Contexts, Publics (Oxford and New York: Peter Lang, 2009). Declan Kiberd, ‘The Flowering Tree: Modern Poetry in Irish’. The Irish Writer and the World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 105–26. Thomas Kinsella, The Dual Tradition: An Essay on Poetry and Politics in Ireland (Manchester : Carcanet, 1995). Edna Longley, The Living Stream: Literature and Revisionism in Ireland (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, 1994). Edna Longley, ‘Irish Poetry and “Internationalism”: Variations on a Critical Theme’, Irish Review 30 (Spring–Summer 2003): 48–61. Edna Longley, Poetry in the Wars (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, 1996). Edna Longley, Yeats and Modern Poetry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013). Louis MacNeice, Selected prose of Louis MacNeice, ed. Alan Heuser (New York: Oxford University Press, 200). Louis MacNeice, The Strings are False: an Unfinished Autobiography (London: Faber and Faber, 1982). Justin Quinn, The Cambridge Introduction to Modern Irish Poetry, 1800-2000 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008). Frederick Ryan, ‘On Language and Political Ideas’, in Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, vol. 2, gen. ed. Seamus Deane (Derry: Field Day Co., 1991), 1000. John Wilson Foster, ‘Irish Modernism’, Colonial Consequences: Essays in Irish Literature and Culture (Dublin: Lilliput, 1991), 44–59. W. B. Yeats and Lionel Johnson, Poetry and Ireland (Churchtown: Cuala Press, 1908). W. B. Yeats, The Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892–1953 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960). Howard J. Booth and Nigel Rigby, eds., Modernism and Empire (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000).
Metody výuky
Poslední úprava: Mgr. Helena Znojemská, Ph.D. (12.12.2019)
seminář
Sylabus - angličtina
Poslední úprava: Mgr. Daniela Theinová, Ph.D. (27.01.2020)
SCHEDULE
For an updated syllabus, reading material and details go to the course site Moodle.
Please note that the course begins on 27 February.
Feb 27 INTRODUCTION
Mar 5 NATIONAL REVIVAL AND MODERNISM Douglas Hyde, Patrick Pearse, J. M. Synge
Mar 12 and 19 W. B. YEATS
Mar 26 and Apr 2 MID-CENTURY BACKWATERS Denis Devlin, Thomas MacGreevy, Brian Coffey, Austin Clarke, Samuel Beckett
Apr 9 NO CLASS
Apr 16 and 23 IRISH LANGUAGE POETRY Máirtín Ó Direáin, Máire Mhac an tSaoi, Séan Ó Ríordáin, Eoghan Ó Tuairisc
Apr 30 and May 7 LATE MODERNISTS Patrick Kavanagh, Thomas Kinsella, John Montague, Louis MacNeice
May 14 AFTER MODERNISM, CONCLUSIONS Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, Sinéad Morrissey
