Modern Celtic Literature; Prof. Robert Tracy

FALL 1997  Celtic Studies 139? (4 units), Modern Celtic Literature; Prof. Robert Tracy;  (audited, no papers)                        

This course is structured around a chronological survey of Irish writing in Irish and English spanning the period from the 18th to the 20th c. It aims to give students a sense of the breadth of writing which emerged from Ireland during this period, as well as an exposure to the cultural and political debates which were explored through this writing.

                                                                       

TEXTS:

Penguin Anthology of Irish Poets

Maria Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent

Elizabeth Bowden, The Last September

Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

Sean O’Casey, Three Dublin Plays: The Shadow of a Gunman, Juno and the Paycock, The Plough and the Stars

Lady Augusta Gregory, Cuchulainn of Muirthemne: The Story of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster (See also Gods & Fighting Men).

John M. Synge, Complete Plays of John M. Synge (Riders to the Sea)

William Butler Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats, Editor: Richard J. Finneran

William Butler Yeats, Three Plays

James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

James Joyce, The Dubliners

Brian Freel, Collected Plays

Plus xeroxed readings. Roger Casement, etc.

Neil is signed up for this class at UC Berkeley but we are too weak to do much, so I'm to be la lecctrice, the shadow reader,  to help him through class. We both have PTSD and everything is stressful.