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Lárionad an Oideachais Aosaigh

LITERATURE

Literary Classics

SPRING LN242

Friday

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 Baudelaire to McGahern. The course is open to both those who completed the Autumn course and to new students. Texts to be covered in Spring include works by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Pat Barker, Toni Morrison, Marguerite Duras and Kevin Power.

BALDOYLE    
10 Fridays Jan 18, 25, Feb 1, 18, 15, 22, Mar 1, 8, 15, 22 10.00am - 12.00pm

FEE €190

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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 Laniganis 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.