ClassInfo - Spring 2017 English Classes

Spring 2017 | ENGL 3180 Section 001: Contemporary Literatures and Cultures -- Irish Literature (68297)

Instructor(s): Annemarie Lawless
Class Component:: Lecture
Credits:: 3 Credits
Grading Basis:: Student Option
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:: Topics Course
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017

Mon, Wed 02:30PM - 03:45PM

UMTC, East Bank

Amundson Hall 116

Course Catalog Description:: Examine issues related to the reading and understanding of British, American, and Anglophone fiction and poetry in a variety of interpretive contexts.
Class Notes:: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?lawle053+ENGL3180+Spring2017
Class Description:: IRISH LITERATURE: In this course, students will learn about the political and social context that produced some of the greatest literary innovators of the twentieth century: W.B. Yeats, whose poems map the transition from the lingering romanticism of the nineteenth century to the frozen confusion of the modern subject in the twentieth; James Joyce, whose prose fiction insists on the essential freedom of the embodied being and subverts the standard expectations of story-telling; Samuel Beckett, whose dramatic works not only portray the existential crisis that is the lot of being human, but also push language to the very limit of what it is possible for us to say. Against competing historical and political narratives, this course will show how Irish writers challenge assumptions about identity and nation, producing literature that pointedly does not carry a flag but instead explores the oppression, injustice and violence that the individual being suffers as a consequence of it - and insists on the right to resist, create, and misbehave.
Textbooks:: https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68297/1173
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:: 12 October 2016

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