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Professor
Kathryn Conrad
Office
hours: Nunemaker 202, Tuesdays 1-3 pm; other days by
appointment only
Office
phone: 4-3314
E-mail
(best way to reach me): kconrad
at ku.edu
NEW:
Note the texts that are fair game for the identification portion
of the final are marked with an asterisk (below) and are in bright
orange and boldface.
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Students
may neither add nor change sections in any English course after August
22, 2006, without departmental permission. For courses numbered above
200, instructor's permission is required to add or change sections.
The Department of English reserves the right to terminate
administratively the enrollment of any student who misses two
consecutive class meetings during the first two weeks of the semester.
Should an emergency situation cause the student to miss two consecutive
class meetings, the student should contact the instructor(s) or the
English Department, 864-4520, immediately. Students are expected to
submit promptly requests to drop should they decide to disenroll from
English classes.
Requirements:
- Participation (25%):
- Writing (65%):
You will be expected to write 3 papers of 1500 words each, and one annotated bibliography from the Spencer Research Library's collection. Paper topics will be available under Readings & Assignments on the Blackboard site. You will also be required to participate in online blogs through Blackboard. See the schedule for due dates.
Note: See Blackboard under Paper Topics for the new staged research paper assignment. The new schedule is reflected below.
- Final examination (10%):
There will a final exam for the course (identification and short essay).
I reserve the right to give reading quizzes (generally unannounced, and worth 5 points each).
Reading
and Assignment Schedule
This schedule is subject--and likely--to change;
check this site for current syllabus, where
changes will eventually be reflected. The best way to know
what we're
doing is to be in class and write down all changes. All assignments are
required
unless specified as "recommended." Bracketed items will be presented in
class
and require no preparation. Italicized items are
presented
for your information. Online items, whenever possible, should
be printed
out and brought to class. Required blog postings are listed; there will also be an open blog for comments, discussions, and questions.
IW: Irish Writing in the
Twentieth Century, ed. Pierce.
Go directly to... [September]
[October]
[November]
[December]
INTRODUCTION: Cultural
revolution.
Background: [British stereotypes of the
Irish]; manifesto for the Irish literary theatre (handout).
Blog posting before 8/28: does Cathleen ni Houlihan fit with the aims of the Irish literary theatre?
The Irish Renaissance
*Yeats, Cathleen ni Houlihan
(play, IW, 98); "Red Hanrahan's Song About Ireland" (poem, online: http://www.poetry-archive.com/y/red_hanrahans_song_about_ireland.html)
Daniel Corkery, "The Aisling" (essay, IW, 289)
Blog posting due.
Recommended:
More background to the Irish literary renaissance:
D.P. Moran, "The Battle of Two Civilizations"
(essay, IW, 32).
Yeats, "The Literary Movement in Ireland" (essay,
IW, 38)
George Russell (AE), "Nationality or
Cosmopolitanism"?" (essay, IW, 44).
Anon., "Lecture by Mr. W.B. Yeats" (essay, IW, 49).
John Eglinton, "The De-Davisization of Irish
Literature" (essay, IW, 70).
[September 7 Last Day to drop on-line; courses will be cancelled and not appear on the transcript]
Riots and
representation(s)
*Synge, The Playboy of the Western World
(play, IW, 171).
J. M. Hone, "Yeats, Synge, and The Playboy"
(essay, IW, 213).
Blog posting due.
Paper 1: Annotated bibliography. Due Sept. 25.
Political revolutions.
Patrick
Pearse: (if you want to examine all of the texts
together: http://www.ucc.ie/celt/pearse.html
)
O'Donovan Rossa Graveside Panegyric
(online, Blackboard)
poems: "Why do ye torture
me?," "Renunciation," "Christ's Coming,""Christmas 1915,"
*"The Mother." (poems, online, Blackboard)
The Singer (play, online: http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/E950004-001/text002.html)
[The 1916 Easter Rising (in-class lecture).]
Blog posting before 9/25.
Recommended: The BBC Easter 1916 website, http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/easterrising/index.shtml
Recommended:
The BBC Easter 1916 website, http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/easterrising/index.shtml
Visions and Revisions: Joyce's Dubliners
*Joyce: "The Sisters," "An Encounter," "Araby."
Different views of Joyce: Stanislaus
(his brother), & Brian O'Nolan (Flann O'Brien), IW 609-618
Lorcan Collins lecture. 7 pm, Parlor ABC, Kansas Union. Required: attendance will be taken.
Visions and Revisions
Joyce: *"Two Gallants," "Eveline," "The Boarding
House."
Quiz.
Blog posting before 10/23.
Reminder: Research plan due Oct. 30.
Visions and Revisions
Joyce: *"A Mother," "A Little Cloud,"
"Counterparts."
Blog posting due.
Visions and Revisions
Joyce, "Ivy Day in the Committee Room," *"The Dead"
Recommended: Yeats: "The Great Day,"
"Parnell," "The Second Coming" and "The Man and the Echo", http://www.lib.umd.edu/ETC/ReadingRoom/Poetry/Yeats/
Research plan due.
Gender and Irishness
Ailbhe Smyth, "Declining Identities (lit. and
fig.)" (essay, IW, 1118).
*Nuala ní Dhomnaill, "Caitlín/Cathleen" (poem, IW, 1174).
English only!
Eavan Boland, "Mise Éire" (poem, IW, 1064)
[Alice Maher images (in class).]
Reminder: draft of research paper and revision strategy due Nov. 20.
[November 13 Last Day to withdraw from a course with an instructor signature; a grade of WF (withdraw/failing) or WP (withdraw/passing) will be posted on the transcript). No withdrawals permitted after November 13 through the end of the term.]
Language and representation
Douglas Hyde, "The Necessity for De-Anglicizing Ireland" (essay, IW, 2-11)
Nuala ní Dhomhnaill, "Ceist na Teangan/ The Language Issue" (poem, IW, 1164); "Why I Choose to Write in Irish, The Corpse That Sits Up and Talks Back" (essay, online, Blackboard).
*Brian Friel, from Translations (play excerpt, IW, 975-83)
Ian Duhig, "From the Irish" (poem, IW, 1174)
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland in film: Bloody Sunday
Discussion of final: identifications.
Blog posting before 12/4.
Note: bring ideas for final exam questions to class December 4.
Reminder: final draft and questionnaire due Dec. 11.