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PS/MS Irish Writers and Their World- Lecturer
- PD Dr. Simone Broders
- Details
- Mittelseminar
2 cred.h, ECTS studies, Sprache Englisch
Time and place: Tue 14:15 - 15:45, room tbd
- Prerequisites / Organisational information
- Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all winter term classes will be taught online.
Das Seminar gehört in folgenden Studiengängen jeweils zu folgenden Modulen:
BA English and American Studies: Zwischenmodul II Literature (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul I: Thematisches Kombinationsmodul) Lehramt Englisch an Gymnasien: Zwischenmodul L-GYM Literature (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literature)
Von den Teilnehmer*innen wird die Übernahme einer kurzen Präsentation erwartet.
- Contents
- With his satirical proposal to fight poverty in Ireland by selling the peasants' children as food to wealty gentlemen and ladies, Jonathan Swift shocked his contemporaries, drawing attention to the gulfs and conflicts characterising British policy towards the Irish. For centuries, Ireland has been one of Europe's poorhouses, yet with its magnificent landscapes, it has also been the 'Emerald Isle' of artistic inspiration.
Contextualizing Irish literature against the backdrop of the country's conflicted history, this seminar is going to analyse some of the most influential texts by Irish writers in English and the world(s) they depict. Starting with Bram Stoker's Dracula, which has been read as a parable of the Irish struggle against English colonial rule, we will focus on twentieth-century writers such as James Joyce, whose short stories illustrated life in the modern metropolis of Dublin, W.B. Yeats and the poetry of Celtic Revival, Seamus Heaney and Sinead Morrissey, whose poems shed light on the conflict known as "The Troubles", or Samuel Beckett, "intensely European - and Irish" (Declan Kiberd). Finally, we are going to explore 21st-century Ireland through the eyes of the millennial generation in Sally Rooney's much-acclaimed contemporary fiction.
- Recommended literature
- (in the order of reading)
Stoker, Bram. Dracula. Recommended edition: Norton Critical Edition. Beckett, Samuel. Waiting for Godot. Rooney, Sally. Normal People. Broders, Simone. Academic Skills. An Introduction for English and American Studies. UTB/Fink, 2020. ISBN 9783825253318.
A selection of shorter texts will be provided on StudOn.
- Additional information
- Maximale Teilnehmerzahl: 20
Registration is required for this lecture.
Registration starts on Monday, 21.9.2020, 19.00 and lasts till Saturday, 7.11.2020, 22.00 über: mein Campus.
- Department: Chair of English Literature (Prof. Dr. Freiburg)
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