Northern Irish Literature and The Troubles

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This course looks at the relationship between Northern Irish Literature and the Troubles from the late 1960s to the mid-1990s. It will cover poetry, fiction and drama, setting works within their historical and cultural contexts. Focussing on the relationship between literature, politics and conflict, it will also cover Northern Irish theatrical and periodical culture, and debates surrounding the use of various literary modes including realism, formalism, elegy, history, myth, translation and postmodernism.