Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of English Studies
- Code
- BBI-ANG17-218E/Z
- Title
- Reading Literary Texts 1.: Irish Literature, 1800-2000
- Usual semester
- Autumn
- ECTS
- 3
- Language
- Learning outcomes
- This course samples the best of Irish writing from the Romantic period to the post- Celtic Tiger era. The course is also designed to help students learn about Irish history from the Act of Union of 1800/1 until the Lisbon Treaty of 2007/9, and beyond (Brexit referendum of 2016 in the United Kingdom).
- Course content
- The set texts include the works of Thomas Moore, Patrick Pearse, William Butler Yeats, Edna O’Brien (or Seamus Heaney), Marina Carr, and Sally Rooney.
- Assessment method
- Final mark is based on the marks received for the homeworks, the two in-class exams and on the student’s work during seminars.
- Bibliography
- Compulsory: · Kiberd, Declan. Inventing Ireland. London: Vintage, 1996. · McCormack, W. J. Ascendancy and Tradition in Anglo-Irish Literary History from 1789 to 1939. Oxford: OUP, 1985. Irish Literature in Transition Series, Cambridge: CUP, 2020. Recommended · Grene, Nicholas. The Politics of Irish Drama. Cambridge: CUP, 1999.