GENDER
AND WRITING: Gender, Modernism, Postmodernism
Dr
John Brannigan and Dr Gerardine Meaney
Joseph
Conrad, Heart of Darkness (Penguin)
T.S.
Eliot, The Waste Land
(Faber)
James
Joyce, Ulysses (Penguin) - 'Circe' episode
Virginia
Woolf, To the Lighthouse (Penguin)
Virginia
Woolf, Between the Acts (Penguin)
Elizabeth
Bowen, The Last September (Penguin)
Eugene
O'Neill, Long Day's Journey into Night (Nick Hern)
Muriel
Spark, Not to Disturb (Macmillan)
Angela
Carter, Wise Children (Vintage)
Jeannette
Winterson, The Passion (Vintage)
The
Formation of Canons: Epic and Anti-Epic
Lecturers: Dr Ron Callan
and Professor Declan Kiberd
William
Shakespeare. Richard II.
Harmondsworth: Penguin,
1969.
John
Milton.
Paradise Lost.
Harmondsworth: Penguin
Classics, 2000.
Walt
Whitman. Leaves of Grass.
Harmondsworth: Penguin
Classics, 1976.
W.B.
Yeats. On Baile's Strand.
Students' Union/Photocopy
Don
Delillo White Noise. London:
Picador, 1986.
Alice
Walker. The Color Purple. London:
Women's Press, 1983.
LITERATURE OF NATIONS: EXPLORING NATIONAL IDENTITIES
Mr Brian Donnelly and Dr Michelle O'Connell
Maria Edgeworth. Castle Rackrent (1800)
(any edition)
Brian Friel. Translations
(1990) (any edition)
James Joyce. Ulysses (1922):
Episode 12, "Cyclops"
W.B.
Yeats. Selected Poetry, ed.
Timothy Webb
(Penguin 1991)
W.B.
Yeats. a selection of essays
(photocopies available from
students'
Union).
William Godwin
Caleb Williams (OUP, 1998)
Charles Dickens Bleak House (OUP,
1998)
Peter Ackroyd The House of Doctor Dee
(Penguin, 1994)
Studies on individual authors will be recommended during the course.
Tradition and Experimentation: Dramatizing Power
Dr
John Brannigan, Professor Chris Murray and Dr Tony Roche
Brecht,
Bertolt
Mother Courage and Her Children (Methuen)
Churchill, Caryl
Cloud Nine
(Nick Hern)
Ibsen, A Doll's House (Methuen)
Mamet,
Oleanna (Methuen)
Miller,
The Crucible (Penguin)
Pinter,
Harold The Homecoming (Faber)
Shaw,
Major Barbara (Penguin)
Williams,
Tennessee A Streetcar Named Desire
General:
Raymond
Williams, Drama from Ibsen to Brecht (Penguin 1983)
Epic
and Romance: Medieval Literature
Beowulf, in the Norton Anthology,
Vol. I or any copy of Seamus Heaney's translation.
Sir
Gawain and the Green Knight.
Trans. Norton Anthology. Vol. 1.
(Or
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Trans. Gwyn Jones.
Wordsworth Classics)
Fitt 1 of the poem (the first quarter of it) will also be set for
close study.
The
Knight's Tale.
Riverside Chaucer (Or The Knight's Tale. The
Canterbury Tales.
Norton.)
Le
Morte Darthur,
books 7 and 8 ("The Tale of Sir Lancelot and Queen Guenivere" and
"The Death of Arthur"). Ed.Helen Cooper. Oxford Classics. pp.
403-527.
Medieval Dream-Visions
The
Dream of the Rood
(Translations can be found in the Norton Anthology. Vol.1,
and elsewhere).
Piers Plowman: Passus 1-7. The Vision of Piers Plowman: A
Complete Edition of the B-Text. Ed.A.V.C. Schmidt. London:
Everyman: 1974. (frequent reprints)
The
Book of the Duchess.
Riverside Chaucer
(Or
Chaucer's Dream-Poetry. Ed. Helen Phillips and Nick Havely.
London: Longman, 1997).
The
Parliament of Fowls.
Riverside Chaucer.
