Anglo-Irish Writing from Swift to Shaw - AAA500712

• Title: Anglo-irská literatura od Swifta po Shawa
• Guaranteed by: Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2013
• Semester: winter
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Is provided by: AAALC001A
• Guarantor: doc. Clare Wallace, M.A., Ph.D.
• Interchangeability : AAALC001A

Annotation

Last update: doc. Clare Wallace, M.A., Ph.D. (24.03.2010)

OBJECTIVES
The course will draw upon the rich tradition of Anglo-Irish writing, focusing on a variety of writers primarily from the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries. In particular we will examine writers who have worked with humour and horror, in comic and
gothic genres. One of the aims of this course is to investigate the subversive potential of the genres these writers used.
Until recently many of these authors were considered as part of an English literary tradition, however we will be exploring the
potential for doubleness in their work and identities as Anglo and Irish.

Full syllabus: http://www.english-department-prague.cz/

Literature

Last update: doc. Clare Wallace, M.A., Ph.D. (24.03.2010)

Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels and selected poems, Maria Edgeworth Castle Rackrent, Richard Brinsley Sheridan "The School for Scandal", Dion Boucicault "The Shaughraun", Sheridan LeFanu selected stories, Bram Stoker Dracula, Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray and "The Importance of Being Earnest", George Bernard Shaw "John Bull's Other Island". Secondary texts will include W.J. McCormack From Burke to Beckett Ascendency Tradition and Betrayal in Literary History and Terry Eagleton Heathcliff and the Great Hunger Studies in Irish Culture.

Full syllabus http://www.english-department-prague.cz/

Teaching methods

Last update: doc. Clare Wallace, M.A., Ph.D. (24.03.2010)

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