Irish literature: An Introduction - AAA132005

• Title: Irská literatura - úvod do problematiky
• Guaranteed by: Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2022
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / 15 (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Additional information: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=1124
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: prof. Mgr. Ondřej Pilný, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): prof. Mgr. Ondřej Pilný, Ph.D.

Annotation

OBJECTIVES
A survey course designed to introduce some of Ireland’s major modern authors and discuss their work in its broader cultural and political context (Irish, Anglophone, and European respectively).

SCHEDULE
17 Feb Introduction
24 Feb James Joyce, “The Dead”
3 Mar J.M. Synge, The Playboy of the Western World
10 Mar W.B. Yeats, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree,” “The Second Coming”, “Sailing to Byzantium”
17 Mar Frank O’Connor, “Guests of the Nation”; Elizabeth Bowen, “Sunday Afternoon”
24 Mar Patrick Kavanagh, The Great Hunger
31 Mar Flann O’Brien, The Third Policeman
7 Apr Samuel Beckett, All That Fall
14 Apr, 21 Apr no class
28 Apr Seamus Heaney, “North,” “Punishment,” “Strange Fruit”
5 May Stewart Parker, Spokesong
12 May Christina Reid, Tea in a China Cup


QUESTIONS to guide class discussion: SEE THE COURSE SYLLABUS ON MOODLE

BASIC BIBLIOGRAPHY: SEE THE COURSE SYLLABUS ON MOODLE

ASSESSMENT
Credit requirements consist of the following:
1) Regular attendance and active participation in debates based on the assigned reading.
2) Submission of a written response to the assigned questions on a week-to-week basis. The response must be submitted to the course instructor as an email attachment in MS Word or .odt format by the Friday preceding the class session (13:00); the minimum length of the response for each session is 250 words.
3) Submission of a final essay (min. length 2 000 words, Notes and Bibliography Chicago style strictly required). Essay topics must be consulted with the instructor in advance. Students are advised not to use Internet sources in place of adequately researching texts available in print or in academic digital libraries. Plagiarism will not be tolerated and will result in a fail grade. The use of AI in writing the essays is prohibited. Essays are submitted by e-mail to the course instructor (as an MS Word/Open Office document). Deadline for all essays: 10 June 2025. Any rewrites must be submitted by 7 September 2025.

Last update: Pilný Ondřej, prof. Mgr., Ph.D. (03.02.2025)