Part-time Evening Degree in English
Level Two English (Evening)
Teaching dates:
Semester One: 10 September 2012 – 30 November 2012
Semester Two: 21 January 2013 – 8 March 2013 & 25 March 2013 – 26 April 2013
Please note: As with Level One, lectures will begin in Week One, while tutorials and seminars will begin in Week Two of term.
Course Structure:
Semester One
ENG20590 Romanticism (Core Lecture: Monday, 6.30pm, tutorial, 7.30pm)
ENG20600 Critical Theory (Core Lecture: Wednesday, 6.30pm, tutorial, 7.30pm)
ENG20560 War Narratives of the 20th Century (Seminar: Wednesday, 8.30pm)
Semester Two
ENG20620 Reading Medieval Literature (Core Lecture: Monday, 6.30pm, tutorial, 7.30pm)
ENG20610 20th Century Drama (Core Lecture: Wednesday, 6.30pm, tutorial, 7.30pm)
ENG20570 The Irish Historical Novel (Seminar: Wednesday, 8.30pm)
Reading Lists:
ENG 20590 Romanticism Convenor: Dr Porscha Fermanis
Core textbook: Romanticism: An Anthology (ed. Duncan Wu; 3rd edition).
For a full reading list, click here: http://www.ucd.ie/englishanddrama/undergraduatestudies/english/modulereadinglists/leveltworeadinglists1011/eng20490romanticism/
ENG20600 Critical Theory Convenor: Dr John Brannigan
Core textbook: Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, revised edition, ed. Vincent Leitch. To prepare for the course, you may want to read the 'Introduction to Theory and Criticism' in this textbook.
ENG20560 War Narratives Convenor: Dr Wendy Ward
Reading List (in order of reading):
Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier [1918]
Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts [1941]*
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five [1969]
Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest [1962]*
Michael Herr, Dispatches [1978]
Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood [2003]
*These are the two longest novels on the list.
ENG 20620 Reading Medieval Literature Convenor: Dr Mary Clayton
Primary Reading List:
Chaucer, ‘The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale’, from one of the following editions:
The Riverside Chaucer, Jill Mann’s Penguin edition of the Canterbury Tales (2005), or the Norton Critical Edition of the Canterbury Tales.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ed. by W.R.J. Barron. 2nd Revised Edition. Manchester: MUP, 1998.
Malory, Books 7 and 8, from either of the following editions:
Sir Thomas Malory. Le Morte Darthur. (A Norton Critical Edition). Ed. Stephen Shepherd. New York: W. W. Norton, 2004, or Sir Thomas Malory. Le Morte Darthur: The Winchester Manuscript. Ed. Helen Cooper. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1998.
For full reading list click here: http://www.ucd.ie/englishanddrama/undergraduatestudies/english/modulereadinglists/leveltworeadinglists1011/eng20410readingthemiddleages2/#d.en.32366
ENG20610 20th Century Drama Convenor: Dr Emilie Pine
Core Textbook: Wadsworth Anthology of Drama, FOURTH edition, ed. W.B. Worthen. (The majority of plays we are studying are included in this anthology, please note the edition. Students may be required to purchase up to two additional plays.)
Selected reading list: A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht, A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, The Homecoming by Harold Pinter (all plays in the anthology).
ENG20570 Irish Historical Novels Convenor: Maria Mulvany
Primary Reading List (in order of reading):
Roddy Doyle, A Star Called Henry (1999)
Emma Donoghue, Slammerkin (2000)
Jamie O’ Neill, At Swim Two Boys (2001) *
Anne Enright, The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch (2002)
Sebastian Barry, A Long, Long Way (2005)
*As O’Neill’s brilliant novel is longer than the other texts on the course, it is advisable to read this over the summer break!
Further Information
- Any queries about the individual modules should be directed to the Module Convenor.
- Any queries about studying English part-time should be directed to the co-ordinator, Dr Emilie Pine ( Emilie.pine@ucd.ie ).
- Any queries about the part-time degree overall should be directed to the B.A. Programme Office ( bapartime@ucd.ie ).