ENG-423 Irish Renaissance Literature

GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts)
Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar
The remarkable literary flowering contemporary with the late nineteenth-century movements in Ireland that led to the creation of the Irish Free State in 1921, and with the difficult historical circumstances faced by the new nation in the first years of its existence. The major figures studied include Yeats, Joyce, Synge, and O’Casey. Normally taught in conjunction with study away experience conducted in the British Isles. 4 credits.

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