{"id":44869,"date":"2024-02-07T20:03:54","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T19:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=44869"},"modified":"2024-02-07T20:05:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T19:05:08","slug":"irish-modernism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=44869&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Irish Modernism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Course Title<\/strong>: Irish Modernism
\n<\/span>Instructor<\/strong>: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tihana Klepa\u010d
\n<\/span>ECTS Credits:<\/strong> 6
\n<\/span>Language:<\/strong> English
\n<\/span>Duration<\/strong>: 2nd or 4th semester
\n<\/span>Status<\/strong>: Elective course
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Course Overview<\/strong>: The course places Irish Modernism in the context of nation-state formation and identifies various attitudes towards this historical process and its protagonists as expressed in literary works.<\/span><\/p>\n

Objective<\/strong>: To highlight the mechanisms that led to the formation of modernism in different English-speaking cultures; to emphasize the necessity of discussing modernity in colonial, national, and gender contexts.<\/span><\/p>\n

Student Obligations<\/strong>: the final grade is based on continuous assessment<\/u> which includes regular attendance (max. 4 unattended classes), preparation for and participation in class, writing small assignments, timely submission of the final paper, and obligatory sitting for midterm and endterm exam. The paper is worth 35%, midterm and endterm exams are worth 50% and other elements of continuous assessment are worth 15% of the final grade. Students must meet all<\/u> requirements of continuous assessment.<\/span><\/p>\n

Week-by-weekk schedule:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Week 1<\/span><\/p>\n

Space and Themes of Modernism<\/span><\/p>\n

Modernism, modernity, colonial, postcolonial, and semi-colonial culture, the use of literature for political purposes, cosmopolitanism versus nationalism<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 2 and 3<\/span><\/p>\n

Irish Culture and Literature at the Turn of the 19th to the 20th Century<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 4<\/span><\/p>\n

W.B. Yeats as the Initiator of the Irish Revival Movement (\u201cEaster 1916\u201d, \u201cSeptember 1913\u201d, \u201cThe Statues\u201d, \u201cThe Second Coming\u201d, \u201cLeda and the Swan\u201d, \u201cSailing to Byzantium\u201d, \u201cAmong School Children\u201d)<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 5<\/span><\/p>\n

Irish War of Independence<\/span><\/p>\n

Sean O\u2019Casey, The Shadow of a Gunman<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 6 and 7<\/span><\/p>\n

James Joyce: Dubliners \u2013 Semi-Colonial Writing, Personal and National Identity<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 8<\/span><\/p>\n

Mid-term exam<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 9 and 10<\/span><\/p>\n

James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man \u2013 Experiments in Form, Bildungsroman, Kunstlerroman, Personal and National Identity<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 11 and 12<\/span><\/p>\n

Elizabeth Bowen: The Last September, on the Process of Writing in Wartime, national identity<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 13<\/span><\/p>\n

Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot, Theater of the Absurd, Proto-Postmodernism<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 14<\/span><\/p>\n

Edna O\u2019Brien, The Country Girls (1960) \u2013 Echoes of Modernism, Proto-Postmodernism<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 15<\/span><\/p>\n

End-term exam<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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