Stage Three Reading Lists

MODULE CODE: ENG30080

MODULE TITLE: Contemporary Historical Fiction

YEAR: 2016-17

SEMESTER: 1

MODULE COORDINATOR: Dr Fionnuala Dillane

CONTACT DETAILS: fionnuala.dillane@ucd.ie

For an overview of this module click here: http://www.ucd.ie/modules/ENG30080

Primary Text (subject to change):

• J.M. Coetzee, Foe (1986)
• Toni Morrison, Beloved (1987)
• Pat Barker, The Eye in the Door (1994)
• Anne Enright, The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch (2002)
• Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall (2010)

Suggested Further Reading:

If you’re interested in doing some background reading, you can begin with ANY of the following, all available in the James Joyce Library (Note: these theoretical texts are not compulsory reading for the course but they will help)

• De Groot, Jerome, The Historical Novel, Routledge, 2010.
• Fleishmann, Avrom, The English Historical Novel, Johns Hopkins, 1971
• Holmes, Frederick M., The historical imagination: postmodernism and the treatment of the past in contemporary British fiction, English Literary Studies, 1997.
• Connor, Steven, The English Novel in History 1950-1995, Routledge, 1996.
• Hutcheon, Linda, A poetics of postmodernism: history, theory, fiction, Routledge, 1988 and The Politics of postmodernism, Routledge, 1989.
• Hamilton, Paul, Historicism, Routledge, 1996.

Students are advised that information provided here can be subject to change.

MODULE CODE: ENG31340 

MODULE TITLE: War Fiction

YEAR: 2018-19

SEMESTER: 1 & 2

MODULE COORDINATOR: Dr Ailise Bulfin

CONTACT DETAILS: ailise.bulfin@ucd.ie

For an overview of this module click here: http://www.ucd.ie/modules/ENG31800

Primary Texts (subject to change):

Erskine, Childers. The Riddle of the Sands (1903).

William Le Quex, The Invasion of 1910 (1906).

H.G. Wells, The War in the Air (1908).

Henri Barbusse, Under Fire (1916).

Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front (1929).

Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (1930).

Suggested Further Reading:

• I.F. Clarke, Voices Prosphesying War: Future Wars 1763-3749, 3nd edn (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1992). 
• David Seed (ed), Future Wars: The Anticipations and the Fears, (Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2012). 
• Samuel Hynes, A War Imagined: The First World War and English Culture (London, Bodley Head, 1991). 
• Vincent Sherry, ed, The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the First World War (Cambridge: CUP, 2005).

Students are advised that information provided here can be subject to change.

MODULE CODE: ENG30140

MODULE TITLE: Seamus Heaney and Modern Irish Poetry

YEAR: 2016-17

SEMESTER: 2

MODULE COORDINATOR: Dr Catriona Clutterbuck

CONTACT DETAILS: (opens in a new window)Catriona.Clutterbuck@ucd.ie

Telephone (direct office line, usually Tuesdays and Wednesdays only): 01-7168238

For an overview of this module click here: http://www.ucd.ie/modules/ENG30140

Primary Texts (subject to change):

• Seamus Heaney, New Selected Poems 1966-1987, London: Faber, 1990
• Seamus Heaney, New Selected Poems 1988-2013, London: Faber, 2014

Suggested Further Reading:

• Heaney, Seamus, (opens in a new window)Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001  New York, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2002
• Dennis O’Driscoll, Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney, London: Faber, 2008

Students are advised that information provided here can be subject to change.

Module Code: 31750

Module Title: Experimental Poetry 

Year: 2018-19

Semester: 1 

Module Coordinator: Ian Davidson

Contact Details: ian.davidson@ucd.ie

For an overview of this module click here: http://www.ucd.ie/modules31750

Primary Texts (subject to change):

Please note: Texts that are hard to get will be made available as copies.

Diane di Prima
Di Prima, Diane. Dinners and Nightmares. San Francisco: Last Gasp, 2003.

And/or read samples of di Prima’s work in:
Hoover, Paul (ed). Postmodern American Poetry. New York: Norton, 2013.
Charters, Ann. The Portable Beat Reader. New York: Penguin, 1992.

Bob Kaufman
In:
Charters, Ann. The Portable Beat Reader. New York: Penguin, 1992.
(opens in a new window)https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/bob-kaufman
(opens in a new window)http://www.poetspath.com/transmissions/messages/kaufman.html

Eileen Myles
Myles, Eileen. I must be living twice. New York: Ecco, 2015
And/or read samples of Myles’s work in:
Hoover, Paul (ed). Postmodern American Poetry. New York: Norton, 2013.
(opens in a new window)https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/eileen-myles

Tom Pickard
Fiend’s Fell.
(opens in a new window)http://www.thecafereview.com/summer-2011-poetry-from-fiends-fell-journals/

Sophie Robinson
(opens in a new window)https://bombmagazine.org/articles/sophie-robinson-poem/

Students are advised that information provided here can be subject to change

MODULE CODE: ENG30210

MODULE TITLE: Modern American Poetry and Poetics

YEAR:2018-19

SEMESTER:1

MODULE COORDINATOR: Dr Nerys Williams

CONTACT DETAILS:nerys.williams@ucd.ie

For an overview of this module click here: http://www.ucd.ie/modules/ENG30210

Primary Texts (subject to change):

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Set Text: The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry (New York: Norton, 1994/ 2013)

Students are strongly advised to purchase and read around the poetry in The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry ed Paul Hoover which also includes key essays and manifestos by poets.

Other selections of poetry will be taken from volumes D and E of The Norton Anthology of American Literature ed. Nina Baym. (New York: Norton, 2003). The specific listings below are a selection of what we may study in class. I will direct you to specific poems during the semester. If you do not have access to either anthology you may be able to find some of these poems online.

• William Carlos Williams
  • ‘The Young Housewife’, ’Portrait of a Lady’, ‘The Widow’s Lament in Spring time’, ‘Spring and All’, ‘To Elsie’, ‘The Red Wheelbarrow’, ‘The Dead Baby’, ‘The Wind Increases’, ‘This is Just to Say’, ‘Landscape with the Fall of Icarus’, ‘Queen Anne’s Lace’.

• Amiri Baraka
  • ‘Political Poem’, ‘Three Modes of History and Culture’, ‘The New World’, ‘Ka’Ba’, ‘Leadbelly gives an Autograph’, 'Kenyatta Listening to Mozart’, ‘Leroy’, ‘The nation is Like Ourselves’, ‘AM/TRAK’.          

• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • ‘In Goya’s greatest scenes we seem to see’, ‘In Golden Gate park that day’, ‘Constantly risking absurdity’, I am Waiting’, ‘Monet’s Lilies Shuddering’, ‘A Dark Portrait’.

• Rita Dove
  • ‘Adolescence I-III’, ‘Parsley’.

• Maya Angelou
  • ‘On the Pulse of the Morning’.

• Lyn Hejinian
  • Excerpts from My Life: ‘A pause, a rose, something on paper’, ‘As for we who “love to be astonished”’, ‘Like plump birds along the shore’, ‘Yet we insist that life is full of happy chance’.

• John Ashbery
  • ‘The One Thing That Can Save America’, ‘The Other Tradition’, ‘Paradoxes and Oxymorons’, ‘Leaving the Atocha Station’.

• Frank O'Hara
  • 'The Day Lady Died’, ‘Why I am not a Painter’, ‘Ave Maria’, ‘Meditations in an Emergency’, ‘Steps’, ‘Ode to Joy’, ‘Personal Poem’, ‘Poem (“The eager note on my door said Call Me”)’, ‘Poem (“At night Chinamen jump”)’, ‘Poem (“Lana Turner has Collapsed”)’.

• Li Young Lee
  • ‘The Gift’, ‘Persimmons’, ‘Eating Alone’, ‘Eating Together’, ‘Mnemonic’, ‘This room and Everything in It’.

• Charles Bernstein
  • ‘The Klupzy Girl’, ‘Whose Language’, ‘Of Time and the Line’, ‘Wait’.

Suggested Further Reading:

• Nerys Williams Contemporary Poetry (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011)

Students are advised that information provided here can be subject to change.

MODULE CODE: ENG30620

MODULE TITLE: The Poetry of W. B. Yeats: Imagining Ireland

YEAR: 2016-17

SEMESTER: 1

MODULE COORDINATOR: Dr Lucy Collins

CONTACT DETAILS: lucy.collins@ucd.ie

For an overview of this module click here: http://www.ucd.ie/modules/ENG30620

Primary Text (subject to change):

• W. B. Yeats, Selected Poems. Ed. Timothy Webb. London: Penguin, 2000.

Suggested Further Reading:

• Doggett, Rob, Deep-Rooted Things: Empire and Nation in the Poetry and Drama of W. B. Yeats. Notre Dame IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006.
• Ellmann, Richard, Yeats: The Man and the Masks. London: Penguin Books, 1987. (rev. edition)
• Foster, R. F., W. B. Yeats: A Life. Vol. 1: The Apprentice Mage, 1865-1914. Oxford: Oxford Press, 1997. Vol. 2: The Arch Poet, 1915-1939. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
• Kelly, John S. and Marjorie Howes (eds), The Cambridge Companion to W. B. Yeats. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,2006.

Students are advised that information provided here can be subject to change.

MODULE CODE: ENG30660

MODULE TITLE: Literature and Science in the nineteenth century

YEAR: 2016-17

SEMESTER: 2

MODULE COORDINATOR: Dr Fionnuala Dillane

CONTACT DETAILS: fionnuala.dillane@ucd.ie

For an overview of this module click here: http://www.ucd.ie/modules/ENG30660

Primary Text (subject to change):

• George Eliot, The Lifted Veil (1859)
• Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
• Sheridan Le Fanu, ‘Carmilla’ and ‘Green Tea’ from In a Glass Darkly (1872)
• H.G. Wells, The Island of Dr Moreau  (1896)
• Laura Otis, ed. Literature and Science in the Nineteenth Century, An Anthology (2002)
• The Norton Anthology of English Literature Volume 2, Ed., M.H. Abrams et. al, which has all of the following primary texts:  Charles Darwin, from The Origin of Species  (1859) and The Descent of Man(1871); Alfred Lord Tennyson, from In Memoriam (1833-50);  Robert Browning, ‘Caliban upon Setebos’ (1864); John Ruskin, ‘The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century (1884); Edward Gosse, from Father and Son (1907)

Suggested Further Reading:

• Beer, Gillian, Darwin’s Plots, Ark, 1985.
• Levine, George, ed. One Culture: Essays in Science and Literature, U of Wisconsin, 1987
• Kuhn, Thomas, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 3^rd ed. U of Chicago, 1996.
• Peterfreund, Stuart, Literature and Science: theory and practice, Northeastern, 1990

Students are advised that information provided here can be subject to change.

MODULE CODE: ENG30770

MODULE TITLE: The Fin de Siècle

YEAR: 2016-17

SEMESTER: 

MODULE COORDINATOR: Professor Nicholas Daly

CONTACT DETAILS: nicholas.daly@ucd.ie

For an overview of this module click here: http://www.ucd.ie/modules/ENG30770

Primary Texts (subject to change):

• Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles (Oxford or similar)
• Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles (Broadview, or other edition)
• H.G. Wells, The Time Machine  (Penguin or similar)
• G. B. Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession  (in Norton vol. 2 or other ed.)
• Short fiction by George Egerton and Sarah Grand. [available as photocopies from copy shop, Cranford Centre, opposite N11 entrance to UCD, and online]
• Selections from Walter Pater, The Renaissance (OUP Classics) [available online, or in Norton].
• Poems by Oscar Wilde, Lionel Johnson, Rudyard Kipling, Alice Meynell, and others.  All of the poetry can be found online through the LION database, available through UCD Library online.

 
Suggested Further Reading:

Students are advised that information provided here can be subject to change.

MODULE CODE: ENG30810

MODULE TITLE: American Literature Between the Wars

YEAR:2018-19

SEMESTER:2

MODULE COORDINATOR: Assoc Professor Nerys Williams

CONTACT DETAILS: nerys.williams@ucd.ie

For an overview of this module click here: http://www.ucd.ie/modules/ENG30810

Primary Texts (subject to change):

To BEGIN with (and please note that this list is NOT exhaustive)

• Sherwood Anderson Winesburg Ohio (1919)

• Jean Toomer Cane (1923) Norton Critical Edition
• Ernest Hemingway Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises (1926)
• Nathanael West The Day of The Locust (1939) Penguin

Other selections of poetry on the course will which include TS Eliot’s Preludes (1917), excerpts from Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons (1914)  and selections from Hilda Doolittle and Ezra Pound will be made available during the semester. You are welcome to read around these poets in the interim.

Suggested Further Reading:

•  Walter Kalaidjian ed. The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism. Cambridge University Press, 2005. (Available online via UCD Library)

Students are advised that information provided here can be subject to change.

MODULE CODE: ENG30970

MODULE TITLE: Dissertation Research Methods

YEAR: 2016-17

SEMESTER: 1

MODULE COORDINATOR: Dr Catriona Clutterbuck

CONTACT DETAILS: (opens in a new window)Catriona.Clutterbuck@ucd.ie  Telephone 01-7168238 (Tuesdays and Wednesdays)

For an overview of this module click here: http://www.ucd.ie/modules/ENG30970

Primary Texts (subject to change):

• Modern language Association of America. MLA Handbook, Eighth Edition. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2016. Print. (Paperback: ISBN 9781603292627)
• De Sousa Correa, Delia and W.R. Owens, eds, The handbook to Literary Research. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2010. Print. [Note: full text online available through UCD library OneSearch]

Suggested Further Reading:

Students are advised that information provided here can be subject to change.

MODULE CODE: ENG31000

MODULE TITLE: Irish Women's Writing

YEAR: 2016-17

SEMESTER: 1+2

MODULE COORDINATOR: Professor Anne Fogarty

CONTACT DETAILS: anne.fogarty@ucd.ie

For an overview of this module click here: http://www.ucd.ie/modules/ENG3100

This course will focus on the work of key fiction writers from the mid twentieth century to the present.  It will consider how female authors have distinctively moulded literary genres such as the Bildungsroman to create space for feminocentric plots, subaltern voices and social critique.  The political and social contexts of the fictions they produced will be examined and their central and perennial preoccupations with mother-daughter relationships and the viewpoint of the child or the disruptive but abjected outsider will be scrutinised.  The depiction of change in Irish society and of space and the familial will be examined and the interplay between the mythic and the naturalistic will be considered.   Special attention will also be given to sibling relations in these fictions and to the depiction of emotional and sexual abuse.

Primary Texts (subject to change):

• Brennan, Maeve.  The Springs of Affection.  Dublin: Tramp Press, 2016.
• Bowen, Elizabeth.  The Death of the Heart. 1938; London: Vintage Classics, 1998.
• Enright, Anne.  The Green Road. London: Jonathan Cape, 2015.
• O'Brien, Edna.  The Country Girls. 1960; London: Penguin, 1988.
• McBride, Eimear.  A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing. 2013; Faber and Faber, 2014.
• Morrissy, Mary.  The Rising of Bella Casey. Dingle: Brandon, 2013.

Suggested Further Reading:

• Bracken, Claire.  Irish Feminist Futures.  London: Routledge, 2016.
• Bourke, Angela. Homesick at the New Yorker.  London: Jonathan Cape, 2004.
• Ingman, Heather.  Twentieth Century Fiction by Irish Women: Nation and Gender London: Ashgate, 2007. 
• Kolmar, Wendy and Frances Bartkowski.  Feminist Theory: A Reader.  New York: McGraw Hill, 2013.

Students are advised that information provided here can be subject to change.

MODULE CODE: ENG31020

MODULE TITLE: Memory and the Irish Stage

YEAR: 3

SEMESTER:

MODULE COORDINATOR: Dr Emilie Pine

CONTACT DETAILS: (opens in a new window)emilie.pine@ucd.ie

For an overview of this module click here: http://www.ucd.ie/modules/ENG31020

Primary Texts (subject to change):

• Beckett, Samuel, Krapps Last Tape, Come and Go, Footfalls (all in the Complete Beckett Plays published by Faber)
• Friel, Brian, Faith Healer
• Reid, Christina, Tea in a China Cup
• Walsh, Enda, The Walworth Farce and New Electric Ballroom (both in Plays Two)

Suggested Further Reading:

Students are advised that information provided here can be subject to change.

MODULE CODE: ENG31120

MODULE TITLE: Regency Writing

YEAR: 3                                                           

SEMESTER: 

MODULE COORDINATOR: Dr Michelle O'Connell

CONTACT DETAILS: michelle.oconnell@ucd.ie

For an overview of this module click here: http://www.ucd.ie/modules/ENG31120

Primary Texts (subject to change):

• Jane Austen Mansfield Park (Norton Critical Edition)*
• Jane Austen Emma (Norton Critical Edition)*
• Duncan Wu Romanticism: An Anthology (4th edition). (Wiley-Blackwell)

You may prefer to use another anthology or individual editions of writers’ works—if so, please ensure to use a SCHOLARLY EDITION WITH EXPLANATORY NOTES. If you use an edition without notes you will not fully understand political, social and historical references and allusions, and consequently will not understand the poem(s) or the prose.

 *W.W. Norton has agreed to offer UCD students a 3 for 2 deal on Norton Critical Editions through the Campus Bookshop, or online at http://wwnorton.co.uk/norton-critical-editions with the code WN339. You may be able to avail of this deal if other seminars you are taking use Norton Critical Editions.

List of Poems (all found in Wu; further poems may be added)

• Anna Letitia Barbauld, Eighteen Hundred and Eleven
• Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage Canto 3 only
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘Christabel’
• John Keats, ‘The Eve of St Agnes’
• Percy Bysshe Shelley, Adonais

Prose (further essays may be added)

• Percy Bysshe Shelley, ‘A Defence of Poetry’ (extracts in Wu)

Suggested Further Reading:

• Marc Baer. Theatre and Disorder in Late Georgian London.
• Marilyn Butler, Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries.
• James Chandler, England in 1819.
• Edward Copeland, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen.

Students are advised that information provided here can be subject to change.

MODULE CODE: ENG31140

MODULE TITLE: The Body in Pain in Irish Culture

YEAR: 2016-17

SEMESTER: 1

MODULE COORDINATOR: Dr Fionnuala Dillane

CONTACT DETAILS: fionnuala.dillane@ucd.ie

For an overview of this module click here: http://www.ucd.ie/modules/ENG31140

Primary Text (subject to change):

• Material from 1641 Depositions available online The 1641 Depositions Project: website (opens in a new window)http://1641.tcd.ie/, see especially the 'Historical Background' sections.
• Images from Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum, Quinnipiac, Connecticut: see (opens in a new window)http://ighm.nfshost.com/explore/collection/ (including works by Ballagh, Behan, Freaney, Gillespie and O’Kelly)
• Selected poetry of the Famine, and contemporary responses to the famine (on Blackboard)
• Joseph O’Connor, The Star of the Sea (2004)
• Anne Enright, The Gathering (2007)
•  Hunger, dir. Steve McQueen (2008)

Suggested Further Reading:

• Caruth, Cathy, Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, History (Johns Hopkins, 1996)
• Erll, Astrid, Memory in Culture (Palgrave, 2011)
• Hirsch, Marianne, The Generation of Postmemory (Columbia UP, 2012)
• LaCapra, Dominick, Writing History, Writing Trauma (Johns Hopkins, 2001)
• Luckhurst, Roger, The Trauma Question (Routledge, 2008)
• Scarry, Elaine, The Body in Pain: The making and unmaking of the world (Oxford, 1985)
• Tal, Kali, Worlds of Hurt: reading the literatures of trauma (Cambridge UP, 1996)
• Whitehead, Anne and Micheal Rossington, eds, Theories of Memory: a reader (Edinburgh, 2007)
• Whitehead, Anne, Trauma Fiction (Edinburgh, 2004)

Students are advised that information provided here can be subject to change.

MODULE CODE: ENG31150

MODULE TITLE: Contemporary Irish Women’s Poetry 

YEAR: 2016-17

SEMESTER: 1 + 2

MODULE COORDINATOR: Dr Catriona Clutterbuck

CONTACT DETAILS: (opens in a new window)Catriona.Clutterbuck@ucd.ie

Telephone (direct office line, usually Tuesdays and Wednesdays only): 01-7168238

For an overview of this module click here: http://www.ucd.ie/modules/ENG31150

Primary Texts (subject to change):

• Peggy O’Brien (ed). The Wake Forest Book of Irish Women’s Poetry [2nd Edition]. Wake Forest University: Wake Forest University Press. 2011. Print.

Suggested Further Reading:

• Boland, Eavan, Object Lessons - The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time,   Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1995
• Coughlan, Patricia and Tina O’Toole (eds), Irish Literature in Feminist Perspectives, Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2008
• Gilsenan Nordin, Irene (ed), The Body and Desire in Contemporary Irish Poetry, Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2006
• Haberstroh, Patricia Boyle, Women Creating Women: Contemporary Irish Women Poets,  Dublin: Attic Press, 1996
• Ní Dhomhnaill, Nuala, Selected Essays (edited by Oona Frawley), Dublin: New Island Press, 2005
• Quinn, Justin, 'Feminism and Irish Poetry', The Cambridge Introduction to Modern Irish Poetry, 1800-2000, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, pp.161-174

Students are advised that information provided here can be subject to change.

MODULE CODE: ENG31300

MODULE TITLE: Jane Austen and Her Peers

YEAR: 3                                                           

SEMESTER: 

MODULE COORDINATOR: Dr Michelle O'Connell

CONTACT DETAILS: michelle.oconnell@ucd.ie

For an overview of this module click here: http://www.ucd.ie/modules/ENG31300

Primary Texts (subject to change):

• Jane Austen Northanger Abbey (Norton Critical Edition)*
• Jane Austen Persuasion (Norton Critical Edition)*
• Jane Austen Lady Susan (Oxford World’s Classics)
• Frances Burney Evelina (Norton Critical Edition)*
• Maria Edgeworth Belinda (Oxford World’s Classics)

*W.W. Norton has agreed to offer UCD students a 3 for 2 deal on Norton Critical Editions through the Campus Bookshop, or online at http://wwnorton.co.uk/norton-critical-editions with the code WN339.

Suggested Further Reading:

• Marilyn Butler, Jane Austen and the War of Ideas
• Edward Copeland, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen
• Edward Copeland, Woman Writing About Money: Women’s Fiction in England 1790-1820.
• Caroline Gonda. Reading Daughters’ Fictions 1709-1834: Novels and Society from Manley to Edgeworth.
• Vivien Jones. Women in the Eighteenth Century.
• Lawrence Stone. The Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500-1800.

Students are advised that information provided here can be subject to change.

MODULE CODE: ENG31330

MODULE TITLE: Reading Beckett

YEAR: 2016-17

SEMESTER: 1+2

MODULE COORDINATOR: Professor Anne Fogarty

CONTACT DETAILS: anne.fogarty@ucd.ie / 017168159

For an overview of this module click here: http://www.ucd.ie/modules/ENG31330

Beckett has frequently been seen as a postmodernist writer whose work is placeless and eschews particularity and national affiliation.  This course by contrast will focus on the historical, materialist, and political dimensions of Beckett’s writing.  It will also examine the ways in which Beckett weaves Irish themes and tropes into his plays and fictions or uses them as muted subtexts.  Central attention will be given to the symbol of the body in pain in his oeuvre and to its materialist dimensions and signifying power.  Additionally, this module will track the trajectory of Beckett’s career and consider the increasing espousal of “lessness” and an aesthetics of attrition in his texts. 

Primary Texts (subject to change):

• Molloy.  Faber and Faber, 2009.
• The Unnamable. Faber and Faber, 2010.
• Company, Ill Seen, Ill Said, Worstward Ho. (Faber and Faber, 2009.
• Waiting for Godot, Krapp’s Last Tape, Happy Days,  Footfalls, Not I. In The Complete Dramatic Works.  Faber and Faber, 2006. 

Suggested Further Reading:

• Gibson, Andrew.  Beckett and Badiou: The Pathos of Intermittency.  Oxford: Oxford UP, 2007.
• Kenner, Hugh.  A Reader’s Guide to Samuel Beckett.  London: Thames and Hudson, 1973.
• Knowlson, James.  Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett.  London: Bloomsbury 2014.
• Van Hulle, Dirk, ed.  The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Students are advised that information provided here can be subject to change.

MODULE CODE: ENG31340 

MODULE TITLE: Popular Fiction in Britain, 1900-1960

YEAR: 2016-17

SEMESTER: 

MODULE COORDINATOR: Professor Nicholas Daly

CONTACT DETAILS: nicholas.daly@ucd.ie

For an overview of this module click here: http://www.ucd.ie/modules/ENG31340

Primary Texts (subject to change):

• John Buchan, The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915). [available from the bookshop, Library short loan, etc.]
• E.M. Hull, The Sheik (1919). [excerpts, See Blackboard and Library.  Full text on (opens in a new window)archive.org]
• M.R. James and others.  Short supernatural fiction.  [See Blackboard]
• Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1916). [Bookshop, Library, Kindle edition acceptable.]
• Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm (1932).  [Excerpts, See Blackboard]
• P.G. Wodehouse, short stories. [Blackboard]
• Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca (1938) [Bookshop, Kindle edition acceptable]
• Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (1952). [Bookshop, Library, Kindle]

 
Suggested Further Reading:

Students are advised that information provided here can be subject to change.

MODULE CODE: ENG31460

MODULE TITLE: Architecture and Narrative: The Production of America, 1800-1900

YEAR: 2018-19

SEMESTER: 2

MODULE COORDINATOR: Dr. Katherine Fama

CONTACT DETAILS: katherine.fama@ucd.ie

For an overview of this module click here: http://www.ucd.ie/modules/ENG31460

Primary Texts (subject to change):

• Hannah Crafts, The Bondwoman’s Narrative (1853-61)
• Helen Hunt Jackson, Ramona (1884)
• Pauline Hopkins, Contending Forces (1900)
• Amy Richter, At Home in Nineteenth-Century America

Suggested Further Reading:

Critical texts and shorter fictions provided in seminar. 

Students are advised that information provided here can be subject to change.

MODULE CODE: ENG31470

MODULE TITLE: Sexuality and American Literary Modernism, 1900-1950

YEAR: 2018-19

SEMESTER: 2

MODULE COORDINATOR: Dr. Katherine Fama

CONTACT DETAILS: katherine.fama@ucd.ie

For an overview of this module click here: http://www.ucd.ie/modules/ENG31470

Primary Texts (subject to change):

• Kate Chopin, The Awakening
• Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie
• Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
• Nella Larsen, Passing
• John D'Emilio, Estelle B. Freedman, Intimate Matters (3rd ed.)

Suggested Further Reading:

Critical texts and shorter fictions provided in seminar. 

These will include writings by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Jessie Fauset, William Faulkner, Ida B Wells, Meridel Le Sueur, Willa Cather, & Edna Ferber. 

Students are advised that information provided here can be subject to change.

MODULE CODE: ENG31580

MODULE TITLE: Romanticism, Rights and Revolution

YEAR: 3                                                           

SEMESTER: 1 & 2

MODULE COORDINATOR: Dr Lucy Cogan

CONTACT DETAILS: lucy.cogan@ucd.ie

For an overview of this module click here: http://www.ucd.ie/modules/ENG31580

Primary Texts (subject to change):

• Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings (Penguin)
• Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story (Oxford University Press)
• Maria Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent (Oxford University Press)

Suggested Further Reading:

• Marilyn Butler, Romantics Rebels and Reactionaries
• Brycchan Carey, Website with information on Romantic era abolitionist literature: (opens in a new window)http://www.brycchancarey.com/
• Stuart Curran, Poetic Form and British Romanticism
• E P Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class
• Mary Jacobus.  Romanticism, Writing, and Sexual Difference
• Jon Mee and David Fallon, eds. Romanticism and Revolution: A Reader

Students are advised that information provided here can be subject to change.

MODULE CODE: ENG31600

MODULE TITLE: Making the Eighteenth-Century Self

YEAR: 3

SEMESTER: 1 & 2

MODULE COORDINATOR: Dr Lucy Cogan

CONTACT DETAILS: (opens in a new window)lucy.cogan@ucd.ie

For an overview of this module click here: http://www.ucd.ie/modules/ENG31600

Primary Texts (subject to change):

• Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock (Vintage Classics)
• Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders (Oxford University Press)
• Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy (Oxford University Press)

Suggested Further Reading:

• Nancy Armstrong, Desire and Domestic Fiction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987).
• Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, vol. 1, trans Robert Hurley (London: Penguin, 1978).
• Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (London: Penguin, 2003).
• Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1989).

Students are advised that information provided here can be subject to change.