LITERATURE
Literary Classics
AUTUMN LN141
Fridays
TUTORS: Barbara Hughes, Liam Lanigan and Wendy Ward
This course, which is held in Pobalscoil Neasáin in Baldoyle, will explore a variety of literary classics from Yeats to Cormac McCarthy. Other texts to be covered in Autumn include works by Seumas O’ Sullivan, James Stephens, Hugo Hamilton, TS Eliot, Ernest Hemingway and Sylvia Plath. The spring module, which will deal with a different set of classic texts, is open to both new and continuing students.
| BALDOYLE | ||
| 10 Fridays | Sep 28, Oct 5, 12, 19, 26, Nov 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 | 10.00am - 12.00pm |
| FEE €190 | Print Open Learning Application Form 2012.13 or ring (01) 716-7123 for Laser/credit card payment |
Tutor Details:
Barbara Hughes (PhD) lectures in the Department of Humanities in the Institute of Art, Design and Technology. She contributed to The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English, and her book Between Literature and History: The Diaries and Memoirs of Mary Leadbeater and Dorothea Herbert was published by Peter Lang in 2010.
Liam Lanigan is a lecturer at UCD, where he received his doctorate in 2011 for a dissertation on James Joyce. He also teaches at NUI Maynooth, and has been a lecturer at the University of Kaposva'r, Hungary. He is the author of several articles on Joyce and Irish writing.Dr. Wendy Ward received her doctoral degree from the Clinton Institute for American Studies, University College Dublin, where she completed a thesis on the intersections between American fiction writers and the photographic culture of the 1960s and 1970s. Her primary research/teaching interests include twentieth-century American literature and culture, photography and visual culture, photo-fiction and life writing. She has been a Senior Tutor with the Department of English, Drama & Film for nearly five years, and has also taught on the evening degree at UCD.
Reading List
Following is the proposed reading list for this course. We recommend that you only acquire the book for the first class but do not purchase all the books listed in advance, as your tutor will discuss this list and how the course will be organised.
| September 28 | The poetry of W.B. Yeats | Liam |
| October 5 | The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford | Wendy |
| October 12 | The Sun Also Rises by Earnest Hemingway | Liam |
| October 19 | The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje | TBC |
| October 26 | Havoc in its Third Year by Ronan Bennett | Liam |
| November 2 | The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot | Wendy |
| November 9 | Disguise by Hugo Hamilton | Liam |
| November 16 | Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare | Barbara |
| November 23 | The Road by Cormac McCarthy | Wendy |
| November 30 |
Mud and Purple by S. O'Sullivan and The Insurrection in Dublin by James Stephen |
Liam |
