Irish Modernists: Yeats, Joyce, Beckett - ARTS2039
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
School: School of Humanities and Languages
Course Outline: School of Humanities & Languages
Campus: Sydney
Career: Undergraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
Enrolment Requirements:
Prerequisite: 30 units of credit at Level 1
CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
Available for General Education: Yes (more info)
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Description
Subject Area: English
This course can also be studied in the following specialisation: European Studies
For a small country, Ireland has produced a large number of major writers during the twentieth century. Perhaps the three most significant are W.B. Yeats, James Joyce and Samuel Beckett. This course introduces you to these writers through attention to key cultural and historical issues in Ireland, including the Irish Revival and the struggle for Irish independence; the colonial and post-colonial relationship to Britain; the impulse to renovate and experiment with inherited forms and genres; and the crises of international modernity. Despite the fundamental differences between these three writers, and indeed reactions from one to the other, their work expresses their cultural and historical context in revelatory ways. All three have a reputation for 'difficulty', but their contribution to poetry, fiction and drama has been revolutionary. This course seeks to enhance your critical engagement with these three major modernist writers through a combination of cultural history and close textual and formal analysis.