Topics in Irish Literature:

(4 Credits)

This course explores the works of the most important figures in the last fifty years of Irish literature and drama, such as Samuel Beckett, Flann O'Brien, Brian Friel, Marina Carr, Conor McPherson, Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, Derek Mahon, Medbh McGuckian, Ciaran Carson, Anne Enright, Colm Toibin, Paul Murray and others. The class will take a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary approach, and will explore how these authors connect to contemporary Irish culture in its other forms, including music, visual art, and film. We will have class visits from several of the writers on the syllabus, and some of our class meetings will take place in some of the historic haunts frequented by the writers we are reading.