爱尔兰文学 & 电影 学习+宝博体育 in 都柏林 Program 2024秋季学期

This course will examine dominant images of 爱尔兰 in film and literature from Romantic 爱尔兰 and the images of the Celtic Revival to the harsher realities of Irish life and the transformations of 爱尔兰社会 under modernity and globalization. Issues discussed will include emigration and immigration; nostalgia and loss; gender, family and community; Church and State; politics and violence; language and communication, and the country and city, The course will chart the pressures placed on literary/visual styles associated with Romanticism, 现实主义, and Modernism by the anomalies of Irish experience, framed by the legacies of W.B. 叶芝J.M. Synge, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett. Beginning with a viewing of the classic film The Quiet Man, attempts by subsequent generations of writers and filmmakers to bring images into line with the harsh realities of postcolonial experience will be examined. 电影makers discussed will include Neil Jordan, 吉姆·谢里丹, 莱尼亚伯拉罕森, 肯•洛奇, and contemporary writers will range from Brian Friel, 约翰McGahern, 威廉•特雷弗, 帕特里克·麦凯布, and Alice MacDermott to more recent figures such as Donal Ryan, 塔纳法国, 玛丽·科斯特洛, Eimear McBride and Colin Barrett.

The aim of this course is to provide a critical engagement with the lived experience of Irish culture, as it has been represented in major works of both film and fiction. The course will not only address key themes but will also attend to questions of form and style, examining how representations have both been shaped by, and in turn have transformed, 爱尔兰社会, and enable students to bring their own experiences of American culture to bear on course material.

The course is cross listed with FLM314.