FPF:UCJAIPK1 Anglo-Irish Poetry - Course Information
UCJAIPK1 Anglo-Irish Poetry
Faculty of Philosophy and Science in OpavaWinter 2020
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/5/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- PhDr. Diana Adamová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
- Guaranteed by
- PhDr. Diana Adamová, Ph.D.
Institute of Foreign Languages – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava - Prerequisites (in Czech)
- TYP_STUDIA ( N )
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- English (programme FPF, N7310 Filo)
- Course objectives
- The course provides an overview of Irish mythology, history of Ireland from the French Revolution to the 20th century. It also follows political and cultural events and their influence on the most important Irish poets writing in English. Literature: Bozděchová, I. et al. (eds.) Vzdálené tóny naděje - The Distant Music of Hope - Ceol Dóchais Ó Chéin. Antologie irské poezie. Brno: Host, 2000. Jeffares, A. Norman. A Short History of Ireland´s Writers. Dublin: O´Brien Press, 2014. Joyce, P. W. Old Celtic Romances. Ware - London: Wordsworth Editions and The Folklore Society, 2000. Regan, Stephen. Irish Writing: An Anthology of Irish Literature in English 1789 - 1939. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. State, Paul F. A Brief History of Ireland. New York: Facts On File, 2009. Vance, Norman. Irish Literature Since 1800. London: Routledge, 2002.
- Syllabus
- 1. Irish fairy-tales
2. Mythology
3. Poetry written in Irish
4. Political speeches, nationalist writings
5. Irish ballads
6. Thomas Moore
7. W.B. Yeats
8. Patrick Kavanagh
9. Louis MacNeice
10. Seamus Heaney
11. Ciaran Carson
12. Paul Muldoon
- 1. Irish fairy-tales
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
- Teacher's information
- Regular attendance to the seminars, essay and a successful completion of a written test.
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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