ENG 550 3/20/2006 Update
English 550 Literary Study Tour: Graduate Credit
Twentieth-Century Irish Literature
Spring Interim Study Tour 2006
Dr. Marguerite Helmers, instructor
Radford Hall . Room 226 . 424-0916, office
www.english.uwosh.edu/helmers
sh.edu/oie/LIREL.html
Bust of James Joyce, St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin
Mark these dates on your calendar. All room locations and times will be announced in advance.
March 25 First group meeting, Swart 3
April 1 Family Orientation
May 15-18 4pm-7pm, Class sessions, UW Oshkosh.
Book Purchases
Irish Writing in the 20th Century, Ed. David Pierce
Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt
Dubliners, James Joyce
The Dead, James Joyce (St. Martin’s) Ed. Daniel Schwarz
A Star Called Henry, Roddy Doyle
A Book of Migrations, Rebecca Solnit
Inventing Ireland by Declan Kiberd
Writing Assignments
Writer’s Notebook (due August 7 or before). You will keep a notebook daily while traveling. Purchase a notebook that is large enough to write, keep photographs, do sketching, and collect postcards). All entries should be dated. Try to focus, in particular, on the relationship between literature, culture, and place rather than on your dreams, innermost feelings, escapades, adventures, and misadventures (although if they are on topic, feel free to include them).
2 short research essays (4 pages each) . Due May 16 & May 18 or before
The focus is on critical interpretation of focal authors. One research essay can be related to a film. These will be presented to the group prior to departure. These essays will use peer-reviewed resources as well as websites, have a thesis about the literature and supporting points drawn from the text. In them, you will formulate a critical stance, saying something about, for example, style, character, scene. Ideas from these responses will be presented to the group during travels. Consider exploring potential ideas for your research paper.
Formal critical essay (15 pages). Due August 7 or before.
This essay must consider a group of works that are connected thematically. Topics should be drawn from those listed in the Pierce anthology (1285-7), specifically numbers 1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 11, 12, 15, 20, 23, 25, 26, 41, and 48.
Specific Research Requirements: You must use books and peer-reviewed articles. Sources are used to support your main ideas and is integrated into the essay through summary and direct quotation. You are graded on your ability to integrate the new information in a manner that supports the purposes of your essay. The bibliography should contain at least six secondary sources (secondary sources are sources other than the primary poem, play, essay, memoir, or novel); no more than 30% of your total sources (2 out of 6, 3 out of 9, etc.) can be an internet source. Your final grade will be lowered if you use more than 30% web sources.
Annotated Bibliography related to the study of Irish literature. Due May 15 or before . You may choose a select focus, such as primary and secondary works on a particular author or you may choose a thematic topic, perhaps related to one of the research questions (listed above). Aim for 10-12 solid, peer-reviewed entries. Annotations should be 50 words long. This will be presented to the group prior to departure to assist in their researches.
Grading
15% Journal
10% Research #1
10% Research #2
10% Presentation to group while on tour
25% Formal Critical Paper
15% Annotated Bibliography
15% Participation in scheduled events
Links
How to read poetry,
www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/poetry/readpoet.htm
www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/ReadingPoetry.html
www.brocku.ca/english/jlye/criticalreading.html
On Reserve
Howie the Rookie , a play by Mark O’Rowe. This play is being performed at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. [This is optional reading]
Notebook
Keep a notebook with summaries in it, organized so that you can access it easily. Write a short summary and a short comment on each poem.
All Readings indicated with * will be copied for ENG 302
May 15 : Places
Readings to be Discussed
James Joyce, Dubliners
Introduction (3) and Critical History (63) in The Dead (Ed. Schwarz) (ENG 3/550)
Stanislaus Joyce (Pierce anthology 615) “Background to ‘Dubliners’” (ENG 225, 3/550)
Kavanagh, Patrick (Pierce anthology 650) “Who Killed James Joyce?”
Kiberd, Declan Inventing Ireland (selections) (ENG 550)
Read all interchapters
J. M. Synge (166-188)
Pierce, Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century (ENG 225, ENG 350, ENG 550)
The Aisling [Ash-lynn] Poem
Mangan, James Clarence “Dark Rosaleen” [www.bartleby.com/101/664.html]*
Corkery, Daniel (288) “The Aisling”*
Longley, Edna (1074) “From Cathleen to Anoerexia”*
Boland, Eavan (1063) “Mise Eire”
Plays, Poems, & Essays
Yeats, W. B. (98) Cathleen ni Houlihan
Synge, John Millington (171) Playboy of the Western World [tour site, Connemara area]
Yeats, W. B.~
“The Wild Swans at Coole” (274) [tour site, Coole Park]*
“Meditations in Time of Civil War” (349)*
“Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931” (428)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree [www.online-literature.com/yeats/]* [tour site, Sligo]
The Tower [www.online-literature.com/yeats/]* [tour site, Thoor Ballyle]
O’Flaherty, Liam [Lee-am] (364), “The Tent” [tour site, Inishmore]
O’Byrne, Cathal (521) “Tradition and the Falls Road-526” [tour site, Belfast]
Gogarty, Oliver St. John (602) “The Destruction Still Goes On” [tour site, Dublin]
Kavanagh, Patrick (780-1) [tour site, Dublin]~
“On Ragland Road”*
“Canal Bank Walk”*
“Lines Written on a Seat on the Grand Canal”*
Muldoon, Paul (960) “Ireland”*
O’Callaghan, Julie (992) “A Tourist Comments on the Land” [tour site, Dublin]*
McDonagh, Martin (1240) The Lonesome West [tour site, Inishmore]
What Papers are Due?
English 550: Annotated Bibliography, First research paper
May 16: History and Politics
Screen
The Dead (on your own, prior to this date)
Michael Collins (on your own, prior to this date)
Listening (CD)
The Boys of Wexford
Kevin Barry
Roddy McCorley
Valley of Knockanure
The West’s Awake
Readings to be Discussed
James Joyce, The Dead: Criticism (ENG 225, ENG 550)
Pscychoanalytic approach by Daniel Schwarz (85)
Reader response by Peter Rabinowitz (125)
New Historicism by Michael Levenson 150
Feminist criticism by Margot Norris (178)
Doyle, Roddy. A Star Called Henry (ENG 350, ENG 550)
Kiberd, Declan. Inventing Ireland (selections) (ENG 550)
Yeats: 99-165, 305-315, 438-453
Revolution / Uprising: 191-217
Friel: 614-623
Pierce, Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century (ENG 225, ENG 350, ENG 550)
Hyde, Douglas (2) “The Necessity for De-Anglicizing Ireland”*
Stephens, James (235) The Insurrection in Dublin: Wednesday
Shaw, George Bernard (239) “The Easter Week Executions”
Pearse, Patrick (260) “I am Ireland”
Collins, Michael (284) “Distinctive Culture”
Russell, George (286) “Lessons of a Revolution”
O’Connor, Frank (413) “Guests of the Nation”
Lynch-Robinson, Sir Christopher (607) “The First World War”
Devlin, Denis (694) “The Tomb of Michael Collins”
Longley, Michael (764) “Strife and the Ulster Poet”
McMahon, Bryan (786) “Valley of Knockanure”
Kinsella, Thomas (802) “A Nightwalker”
Montague, John (854) “A Lost Tradition” from The Rough Field *
Simmons, James (884) “Claudy”
Johnston, Jennifer (893) Shadows on Our Skin
Hewson, Paul [Bono] (935) “Bono: The White Nigger”
Beckett, May (960) “A Belfast Woman”
Friel, Brian (974) Translations
MacLaverty, Bernard (997) “Cal”
Fiacc, Padraic (1034-5) from Missa Terribilis *
Carson, Ciaran [See-ar-an] (1063) “Belfast Confetti”*
McKitterick, David et al. (1160) Lost Lives *
Buckely, Vincent (1172) “Bobby Sands: One”
Yeats , W. B.
The Literary Movement in Ireland (38)
September 1913, Fallen Majesty, The Cold Heaven (259)
Easter 1916 (270)
An Irish Airman Foresees his Death (276)
Leda and the Swan (353)
Among School Children (368)
Sailing to Byzantium (370)
Byzantium (429)
Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop (429)
Lapis Lazuli (475)
Under Ben Bulben, The Statues, News for the Delphic Oracle, The Circus Animals’ Desertion, Politics (483-6)
Moore, George (219-223) Hail and Farewell (on Yeats)
Fallon, Padraic (651) “Yeats’s Tower at Ballylee”
O’Brien, Conor (756) “Passion and Cunning: An Essay on the Politics of W. B. Yeats”
Kennelly, Brendan (1098) “Irish Poetry Since Yeats”
Heaney , Seamus
Punishment (885)
Station Island (1002)
From The Republic of Conscience (1033)
Deane, Seamus (836) “Unhappy and at Home”: Interview with Heaney
Listen to the BBC Interviews with Heaney at .co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/heaneys1.shtml
May 17: Myths and Legends
Listening (CD)
The Leprechaun
Readings to be Discussed
Pierce, Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century (ENG 225, ENG 350, ENG 550)
Lady Gregory (95-98) Cuchulain of Muirthemne [Koo-hulin of Myuer-hem-ay]
Campbell, Joseph (203-4) “I am the Mountainy Singer” and “Night, and I Travelleing”*
Devlin, Denis (569-70) “Lough Derg”
O’Faolain, Sean [Shawn O’Feelan] (694) “Lovers of the Lake”
Robinson, Tim (1116-1118) “Among the Thorns” [tour site, Inishmore]
O’Loughlin, Michael (1236) “Cuchulainn”*
O’Malley, Mary (1239) “Lightcatchers”*
Yeats, W. B. “The Harp of Aengus” and “The Stolen Child” [www.online-literature.com/yeats/]*
Heaney, Seamus [Sham-us Hanny]~
The Tollund Man*
Bogland*
You may read these poems and listen to Seamus Heaney read these poems online at blio.org/dykki/poetry/heaney/
What Papers are Due?
English 550: Research paper #2
May 18 : Memoirs & Questions of Gender
Readings to be Discussed
Solnit, Rebecca. Book of Migrations (ENG 302, ENG 550)
McCourt, Frank. Angela’s Ashes (ENG 225, ENG 350, ENG 550)
Kiberd, Declan. Inventing Ireland (selections) (ENG 550)
Mothers and Daughters (395-410)
Recovery / Pressure (565-613)
Pierce, Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century (ENG 225, ENG 350, ENG 550)
Brody, Hugh (820) “Family Life”
Trevor, William (854) “The Ballroom of Romance
Higgins, Aidan (1115) The Great Flood
Women Writers
Boland, Eavan [Avan]~
Outside History (946)
The Emigrant Irish, Tirade for the Lyric Muse (1063-65)
The Achill Woman (1165)
That the Science of Cartography is Limited. Read and listen at orton.com/trade/external/nortonpoets/ex/bolandeinatime.htm
Higgins, Rita Ann (1228) “Remapping the Borders”
Ní Chuilleanáin, Eiléan [Eileen nee Killan-ayn] (85) “Early Recollections”
Smyth, Ailbhe [Alva Smith] (1118-1128) “Declining identities”
Ní Dhomhnaill, Nuala [Noola Khovnal]~
The Unfaithful Wife (1163)
The Language Issue (1164)
Cathleen (1174)
Máire Bradshaw (1172) “High Time for all the Marys”