Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of English Studies
- Code
- OT-ANG17-310/l
- Title
- Modern English and American Literature and Culture: Oscar Wilde and G. B. Shaw
- Usual semester
- Autumn
- ECTS
- 3
- Language
- Learning outcomes
- This course is designed to introduce students to the works of Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw.
- Course content
- Set texts include The Importance of Being Earnest and “The Ballad of Reading Gaol” by Oscar Wilde, and Arms and the Man, St Joan and Farfetched Fables by George Bernard Shaw.
- Assessment method
- Final mark is based on the mark received for the end-of-term in-class essay 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. Recommended · Grene, Nicholas. The Politics of Irish Drama. Cambridge: CUP, 1999.