Course Details
Country:
Ireland
Institution:
University of Galway, Summer
Course Title:
Representing Ireland: Literature and Film
Course Number:
SS115
Course Description:
The story of how Ireland and the Irish have been represented is ‘complicated’, to say the least-in both how Ireland has been imagined in the cultural and political consciousness of Britain and America, and in the struggle for self-definition that has been so central to Irish nationalism and anti-colonial resistance. Culture has been the first, and most important, battle ground in the movement towards ‘inventing’ Ireland and establishing a nation. This course will examine fiction, poetry, drama and film to explore the ways in which Irish writers have commented on various representations of Ireland. The course begins with poems by W.B. Yeats in the nineteenth century and finishes with two films that were nominated for Academy Awards earlier this year.Links discussions of literature and film around themes like cultural nationalism, the representation of ‘The West’, the the figure of the Irish peasant,gender identity, and the shadows of violence.
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
ENGH 362
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