Course Details
Country:
Spain
Institution:
Universidad de Zaragoza
Course Title:
Irish Literature
Course Number:
27852
Course Description:
1.The Irish Novel 1.1. Introduction: What is "Irish" literature? What is an "Irish" writer? What is an "Irish" novel? 1.2. Difficulties for the emergence of the Irish novel: the colonial paradigm. 1.3. Formal and structural features of the Irish novel. 1.4. Main genres and themes 1.5 The Contemporary Irish Novel Readings: "Carmilla" (Sheridan Le Fanu, 1872). 2. The Big House Novel 2.1. The Anglo-Irish Ascendancy and Big House culture. 2.2. Conventions of the genre. Main authors and titles. Readings: "Conventions of the Big House Novel" (Vera Kreilkamp, The Anglo-Irish Novel and the Big House: 20-25) Fools of Fortune (William Trevor, 1983) 3. The Peasant Novel 3.1.
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
INTS 399
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