ENG 480/613
J. P. Farrelly


TEXTS:

John Millington Synge, The Playboy of the Western World and Riders to the Sea
Samuel Beckett, All That Fall (handout)
Brian Friel, Dancing at Lughnasa
Martin McDonagh, Beauty Queen of Leenane and Other Plays
James Joyce,  Dubliners
Contemporary Fiction handouts
William Butler Yeats, Selected Poems and Four Plays
Contemporary Poetry handouts

CHARACTERIZATION:

Students read, analyze, and discuss the literature of the Irish Renaissance and trace the development of the Irish literary tradition in drama, fiction, and poetry throughout the twentieth century.  


EVALUATION PROCEDURES:

Two short papers, Web assignment, and class participation.


SYLLABUS

Drama

8/25    Introduction
           Riders to the Sea (Synge)
 
9/1      Labor Day: No Class

9/8      Continue discussion of Riders to the Sea (Synge)     
           Playboy of the Western World

9/15   The Words Upon the Window-Pane (Yeats)

9/22   Purgatory (Yeats)

9/29   All That Fall (Beckett)
          Introduce Dancing at Lughnasa (Friel)

10/6  Continue discussion of Dancing at Lughnasa
         Introduce Beauty Queen of Leenane (McDonagh)

10/13 Continue discussion of  Beauty Queen of Leenane
           The Lonesome West (McDonagh)

Fiction

10/20  Discussion of demonstration Dubliners fiction story, "Araby," and its film adaptation. (Joyce)
           "Clay" and "The Boarding House"

10/27  "A Mother," "Ivy Day in the Committee Room," and "The Dead"

11/3    Contemporary Irish fiction handouts

Poetry

11/10-12/1  Poetry Syllabus   (The following poems will be treated sequentially with no specific date assigned for each.)

YEATS

"The Stolen Child"
"Fergus and the Druid"
"Who Goes with Fergus"
"To Ireland in the Coming Times"
"The Song of Wandering Aengus"
"The Folly of Being Comforted"
"Adam's Curse"
"A Woman Homer Sung"
"The Fascination of What's Difficult"
"The Mask"
"The Magi"
"The Wild Swans at Coole"
"The Phases of the Moon"
"Easter 1916"
"The Second Coming"
"Sailing to Byzantium"
"The Tower"
"Leda and the Swan"
"A Dialogue of Self and Soul"
"The Choice"
"Crazy Jane Talks to the Bishop"
"The Gyres"
"Lapis Lazuli"
"Why Should Not Old Men Be Mad?"
"Crazy Jane on the Mountain"
"Under Ben Bulben"
"The Circus Animals' Desertion"

HEANEY

"Digging"
"The Forge"
"Punishment"
"The Skunk"
"Casualty"
"The Sharpening Stone"

12/8 No Class:  Immaculate Conception