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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Radvan Markus, Ph.D. (20.09.2023)
MOODLE LINK: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=15277 CREDIT REQUIREMENTS 1. Regular attendance and active participation in debates. A maximum of 2 unexplained absences is allowed. 2. Adding responses or questions to moodle based on the assigned reading. 3. A final essay (2500-3000 words) submitted by e-mail in MS Word format (or compatible). Deadline for essays: 31 January. Students wishing to be awarded an additional exam grade (písemná práce) in the course are required to submit, instead of the essay, a graded research paper (min. 4500-5000 words). Unless students are able to deal with originals, they are advised to focus on modern English-language reflections of the Irish texts (history of translations, literary or political use etc.). PLEASE NOTE: Essays must include full bibliographical references and footnotes for all works cited or paraphrased (in accordance with the Chicago “notes and bibliography” style – consult “essay guidelines” on the department website). Plagiarism will not be tolerated and will result in a fail grade. SCHEDULE 5 Oct – No class 12 Oct – Introduction: Historical, Linguistic and Literary background 19 Oct – Early Irish Lyrics Read: Early Irish Lyrics (selection) 26 Oct – Táin Bó Cuailnge and the Ulster Cycle Read: Táin Bó Cuailnge (selection) in Ciaran Carson’s translation 2 Nov – Cath Maige Tuired and the Mythological Cycle Read: Cath Maige Tuired (trans.) 9 Nov – Guest lecture: Peter Mackay 16 Nov – The Fenian Cycle Read: Acallamh na Senórach (selection), Bodach in Chóta Lachtna, Agallamh Oisín agus Phádraig 23 Nov – Buile Shuibhne (The Frenzy of Suibhne) Read: Buile Shuibhne (trans. Seamus Heaney – Sweeney Astray) 30 Nov – Irish Adventure and Voyage Tales Read: Immram Brain (text and translation on Irish Sagas Online, or Czech translation in Bájné plavby do jiných světů) 7 Dec – The Sovereignty Myth in Irish-language literature Read: Mis agus Dubh Ruis (trans. Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill), Echtra Mac nEchan Muigmedóin (Irish Sagas Online), a selection of poems 14 Dec – Early Irish parody Read: Aislinge Meic Conglinne / The Vision of Meic Conglinne (trans. Lahney Preston-Matto) 21 Dec – The Irish Keening Tradition Read: A selection of Irish keens in translation (Angela Bourke, Doireann Ní Ghríofa) 4 Jan – Cúirt an Mheán-Oíche (The Midnight Court) Read: Brian Merriman: Cúirt an Mheán-Oíche (Ciaran Carson’s translation) 11 Jan – On reserve |
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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Radvan Markus, Ph.D. (15.09.2023)
Online Sources CELT. Corpus of Electronic Texts. http://www.ucc.ie/celt/ Internet Sacred Texts Archive. Section Ireland. http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/index.htm#ireland Irish Script on Screen. http://www.isos.dias.ie/english/index.html Léamh. https://xn--lamh-bpa.org/ Irish Sagas Online: https://iso.ucc.ie/Irish-sagas-list.html eDIL: http://dil.ie/
Bibliography Carson, Ciaran, trans. The Táin. London: Penguin Books, 2008. Edel, Doris. Inside the Táin. Berlin: Curach Bhán Publications, 2015. Fisher, Samuel K. and Brian Ó Conchubhair. Cnámh agus Smior / Bone and Marrow: An Anthology of Irish Poetry from Medieval to Modern. Winston-Salem: Wake Forest University Press. Flahive, Joseph J. The Fenian Cycle in Irish and Scots-Gaelic Literature. Cork: Cork Studies in Irish Literature 2017. Kelly, Fergus, A Guide to Early Irish Law (Dublin: Institute for Advanced Studies, 1988). McCone, Kim, Pagan Past and Christian Present in Early Irish Literature. Maynooth: An Sagart, 1990. Murphy, Gerard, ed. Early Irish Lyrics. Oxford: Oxford UP 1956. Murray, Kevin. The Early Finn Cycle. Dublin: Four Courts Press: 2017. Ní Bhrolcháin, Muireann. An Introduction to Early Irish Literature. Dublin: Four Courts Press 2009. Ó Conchubhair, Brian. The Midnight Court / Cúirt an Mheán Oíche: A Critical Edition. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2011. Ó Tuama, Seán and Thomas Kinsella. An Duanaire 1600-1900: Poems of the Disposessed. Mountrath, Portlaoise: The Dolmen Press, 1985. Samek, Daniel, trans. Triadické výnosy irské/Trecheng Breth Féni. Praha: Triáda, 1999. Williams, J.E. Caerwyn and Patrick K. Ford, The Irish Literary Tradition. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1992.
Thurneysen, Rudolf. A Grammar of Old Irish. Trans. D.A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin (1946). Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1993. McCone, Kim. A First Old Irish Grammar and Reader. Maynooth: Department of Old and Middle Irish, National University of Ireland, 2005. |
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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Helena Znojemská, Ph.D. (21.04.2023)
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