{"id":20917,"date":"2015-02-25T18:11:52","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T17:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=20917"},"modified":"2015-02-25T18:29:04","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T17:29:04","slug":"contemporary-irish-literature-and-culture-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=20917","title":{"rendered":"Contemporary Irish Literature and Culture: Playing with the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Aidan O\u2019Malley, visiting lecturer<\/span>
Subject<\/strong>: Modern literature<\/span>
Course title<\/strong>: Contemporary Irish Literature and Culture<\/span>: Playing with the Past<\/span>
ECTS credits<\/strong>: 6<\/span>
Language<\/strong>: English<\/span>
Duration<\/strong>: 1 semester, 8th and 10th<\/span> (2015)
Status<\/strong>: elective<\/span>
Course type<\/strong>: lectures, seminars<\/span><\/p>\n

Overview
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This course examines a selection of the most important Irish literary and filmic texts of the last 30-40 years. At the heart of this module is an examination of how these texts play with and disrupt conceptions of the Irish past (and, indeed, of history itself). This process of unsettlement is viewed primarily from a postcolonial perspective\u2014in terms, that is, of how this engagement with the past reflects upon contemporary Ireland. To facilitate this, students will also be introduced to important essays in the development of postcolonial discourse in Ireland.
With one exception, the novels to be examined are placed at the end of this course in order to allow time for these to be read. Students intending to take this module should immediately acquire and read Flann O\u2019Brien\u2019s novel, The Third Policeman<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

A list of suggested secondary readings will be issued in the class.<\/p>\n

Course Requirements
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