LITERATURE
Modern Literature
AUTUMN LN167
Wednesdays
Liam Lanigan
At the turn of the twentieth century there was an explosion in literary experimentation as writers sought out ways of coming to terms with the extraordinary technological and social changes that were making the world both a more exciting and more challenging place to live. Examining a range of poetry and fiction from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this course will consider how writers have taken up Ezra Pound’s challenge to “make it new”. While writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Ernest Hemingway seek refuge from modern urban life, others such as T.S.Eliot, Joseph Conrad, Baudelaire and W.B. Yeats challenge convential ways of representing a world that has been changed utterly by war and social upheaval.The scope of the course will be global, exploring how writers from very different social and cultural worlds responded to the rapid, often cataclysmic changes of modernity to generate new and exciting literatures.
The Spring course will deal with a different set of texts and is open to both new and continuing students.
Please note change to schedule :
No Class 31st October
Last class 5 December
| BLACKROCK | ||
| 10 Wednesdays |
Sep 26, Oct 3, 10, 17, 24, Nov 7, 14, 21, 28 Dec 5 No Class 31st Oct Last class December 5 |
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:
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.
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.
Core Texts:
Ernest Hemingway. The Sun Also Rises
D.H. Lawrence. The Plumed Serpent
Joseph Conrad. The Heart of Darkness
T.S. Eliot. The Waste Land
W.B. Yeats. Selected poems
Charles Baudelaire. Selected poems
Bram Stoker. Dracula
J.M. Synge. The Aran Islands
Marguerite Duras. The Lover
Gabriel Garcia-Marquez. One Hundred Years of Solitude
