ENGL 30443 Twentieth Century Irish Literature
Prerequisites: ENGL 10803, ENGL 20803, and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL/WRIT/CRWT course. A survey of drama, poetry, prose and film from all 32 counties of Ireland beginning with the Irish literary revival exemplified by, for example, W.B. Yeats, Augusta Gregory, James Joyce, J.M. Synge and concluding with Ireland's second renaissance e.g., works by Seamus Heaney, Paula Meehan, Roddy Doyle, Brian Friel, and Neil Jordan.