Module Code - Title:
EH4033
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AFTER THE REVIVAL: STUDIES IN MODERN IRISH POETRY
Year Last Offered:
2018/9
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
This module will introduce students to a range of twentieth century and contemporary Irish poets writing in English, addressing issues pertaining to nationalism, colonialism, literary modernism and gender. This module provides students with a survey of Irish poetry in English after Yeats and the Literary Revival; from Austin Clarke and Patrick Kavanagh to Seamus Heaney, Michael Hartnett, Medbh McGuckian, Eilean Ni Chuileanain, Paul Muldoon, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, among others. Matters to be explored include: the cultural politics of the Irish Free State; tradition, modernity and modernism; gender and the Irish poetic tradition, orality and poetic forms; and poetic representations and negotiations of the Northern Troubles.
Syllabus:
Beginning with an assessment of the influence of the poetry of WB Yeats and anticipating the influence of the wider literary revival, the course will move chronologically forward to study the works of major poets such as Denis Devlin, Austin Clarke, Patrick Kavanagh, Thomas Kinsella, Seasmus Heaney, Michael Hartnett, Eavan Boland, Paula Meehan and Medbh McGuckian. The course will consider matters such as the poets relationship to the nation and to the State; and will also measure the significance of landscape, memory, myth and gender in the corpus of twentieth-century and contemporary Irish poetry in English.
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
Write and present analyses of trends and developments in recent Irish poetry.
Apply contemporary theoretical and literary critical tools to interrogate this body of poetry.
Demonstrate a clear appreciation of continuities and discontinuities within the corpus of twentieth-century and contemporary Irish poetry.
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
Demonstrate in writing and in oral presentations, a critical appreciation of the ethical, political and national questions raised in Irish poetry and in critical debates thereupon.
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
N/A
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
This module will be organised around lectures on individual poets and/or thematic issues. The course is broken down into a lecture stream and a parallel tutorial/writing lab stream. Students will attend two hours of lectures and one hour of tutorials per week. In lectures, students will be introduced to key intellectual debates, while the tutorials will provide a forum for discussion and close readings of texts.
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
Prime Texts:
Crotty P (ed) (2003)
Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology
, Belfast: Blackstaff Press
Heaney S (1998)
Opened Ground
, London: Faber and Faber
Other Relevant Texts:
Corcoran N (1998)
The Poetry of Seamus Heaney (2e)
, London: Faber and Faber
Coughlan P and Davis A (eds) (1995)
Modernism and Ireland: The Poetry of the 1930s.
, Cork: Cork University Press
Dorgan T (ed) (1996)
Irish Poetry Since Kavanagh
, Dublin: Four Courts Press
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
Semester - Year to be First Offered:
Module Leader:
christina.morin@ul.ie