Course Details
Country:
Ireland
Course Title:
The Christian Imagination in Prominent Continental and Irish Writers
Course Number:
Literature 501
Course Description:
This course surveys fiction, drama, and poetry drawn from the masterworks of the Western literary tradition, focusing on the Catholic perspective of man’s struggle throughout history to exercise his free will as he encounters both the reality of evil and the force of God’s love and mercy. Special emphasis on Irish writers will reveal the powerful, universal Truth of the redeeming nature of suffering especially when leavened by the Faith. The authors studied include James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, Walter Macken, Liam O’Flaherty, John Synge, Sean O’Casey, Oscar Wilde, Leo Tolstoy, Graham Greene, Gertrud von Le Fort, and Alexander Solzenitsyn.
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
INTS 399
Attachment Files:
Literature 501 St. Columcille Syllabus 2022_1.docx
