Celtic Revival and the Irish Literary Renaissance
This course was available in the past and may be presented again as part of the Basic Program of Liberal Education curriculum.
Our goal is to explore the complex relationships between political nationalism and culture in Ireland from the 1880s. Our focus will be on the Celtic Revival and Irish Literary Renaissance. We will return regularly to questions of the relation between the Irish present and the Irish past, of how discourses of class, gender, and race interact with the discourse of nationalism, of the ways in which Irish writers construct other nations, and of the relationship between politics and language, particularly politics and literary form.
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