ENG 343, 344 - Irish Literature

Course unit(s): 1
Meets GAR: Meets general academic requirement W when offered as 344.
An exploration of representative works in Irish literature by Catholic and Protestant, nationalist and Anglo-Irish, and canonical and non-canonical writers. Selection of texts will vary from semester to semester, sometimes sampling works, sometimes concentrating in a single genre. Topics will include the impact of British colonialism, nationalism and its appropriation of Irish myth, representations of gender, and colliding definitions of “Irishness.”
Meets departmental Transformations approach.