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2008 AM Center and Margin: Conversations across the British Literary Tradition

2008-06-17T09:21:54Z

Mariadoyle:

{|align=right width=260px
!bgcolor=#DFDFDF|Please note that this course will start on May 19!
|}
*Lecturer: Maria Doyle
*Time: Mo, 10-12
*Venue: A10 1-121a
*Contact: [mailto:mdoyle@westga.edu mdoyle@westga.edu]

----
'''Center and Margin: Conversations across the British Literary Tradition'''

The British literary tradition begins with a story of movement between center and periphery, with a hero called to banish a monstrous outsider and restore the peace of a kingdom that is not his own. Thus, motion complicates the idea of the center – the site of cultural and political authority – and the margin – that which is considered outside, other, even monstrous. This negotiation raises questions about how we define these poles and how they influence one another, and this course will explore how writers throughout the British tradition, from earlier canonical authors to contemporary multicultural voices, have used this idea of travel to examine questions of cultural authority and to define their relationship to the idea of Britishness.

'''Class requirements:'''

For Übung credit: regular attendance, active participation (especially during class sessions designated “discussion”), three short one-two page response essays, occasional out-of-class exercises as assigned.

'''Course Texts:'''

Seamus Heaney, translator, ''Beowulf''

William Shakespeare, ''The Tempest''

Jonathan Swift, ''Gulliver's Travels''

Christina Rossetti, ''Goblin Market''

Jean Rhys, ''Wide Sargasso Sea''

Wole Soyinka, ''Death and the King's Horseman''

A list of materials for further reading and exploration will be provided as the class progresses.

'''Class Schedule:'''
Lecture classes will meet for the full two hours. Students should have read the assigned text before class and should bring the text with them to class.

Lecture 1: May 19
Translating ''Beowulf'': A Contemporary Poet and a Cultural Artifact

Lecture 2: May 26
''Beowulf'': The Monster, the Hero and the Cycle of Conquest and Revenge
The class will focus primarily on the first two episodes, the encounters with Grendel and Grendel’s mother (pages 3-131/lines 1-1904), although students are welcome to read beyond that in preparation for lecture.

Discussion 1: May 29, 12-14 '''Meeting Room:''' A6 2-212
''Beowulf'': Issues in textual analysis and further cultural explorations

Lecture 3: June 2
William Shakespeare, ''The Tempest'': The Island as Otherwhere, or Recreating the Center on the Margin

Discussion 2: June 3, 16-18 '''Meeting Room:''' A6 2-212
''The Tempest'': Close Reading and Performance Issues

Lecture 4: June 9
Jonanthan Swift, ''Gulliver’s Travels'', Book 4 (“A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms”): The Center as Margin

Discussion 3: June 12, 12-14 '''Meeting Room:''' A01 0-005
Gulliver and Other Travelers

Lecture 5: June 16
Wole Soyinka, ''Death and the King’s Horseman'': To Wrench the World Adrift

'''Schedule Update:'''
Lecture 6: June 23
Finish discussion of Soyinka

Begin Christina Rossetti, ''Goblin Market'': The Female “Warrior” and the Domestic Center
(Students are only required to read the title poem, not the complete collection of poems.)

Lecture 7: June 30
Finish discussion of ''Goblin Market''
James Joyce, from ''Dubliners'' (“Araby” and “Eveline”)

Discussion 4: July 1, 16-18 '''Meeting Room:''' A6 2-212
Continued discussion of Joyce and introduction to Salman Rushdie, from ''East, West'' (“Good Advice is Rarer than Rubies”)

Lecture 8: July 7
Salman Rushdie, from ''East, West'' (“The Courter”) and Concluding Thoughts

[[Category:Summer 2008]]
[[Category:Aufbaumodul]]

2008 AM Center and Margin: Conversations across the British Literary Tradition

2008-06-17T09:20:50Z

Mariadoyle:

{|align=right width=260px
!bgcolor=#DFDFDF|Please note that this course will start on May 19!
|}
*Lecturer: Maria Doyle
*Time: Mo, 10-12
*Venue: A10 1-121a
*Contact: [mailto:mdoyle@westga.edu mdoyle@westga.edu]

----
'''Center and Margin: Conversations across the British Literary Tradition'''

The British literary tradition begins with a story of movement between center and periphery, with a hero called to banish a monstrous outsider and restore the peace of a kingdom that is not his own. Thus, motion complicates the idea of the center – the site of cultural and political authority – and the margin – that which is considered outside, other, even monstrous. This negotiation raises questions about how we define these poles and how they influence one another, and this course will explore how writers throughout the British tradition, from earlier canonical authors to contemporary multicultural voices, have used this idea of travel to examine questions of cultural authority and to define their relationship to the idea of Britishness.

'''Class requirements:'''

For Übung credit: regular attendance, active participation (especially during class sessions designated “discussion”), three short one-two page response essays, occasional out-of-class exercises as assigned.

'''Course Texts:'''

Seamus Heaney, translator, ''Beowulf''

William Shakespeare, ''The Tempest''

Jonathan Swift, ''Gulliver's Travels''

Christina Rossetti, ''Goblin Market''

Jean Rhys, ''Wide Sargasso Sea''

Wole Soyinka, ''Death and the King's Horseman''

A list of materials for further reading and exploration will be provided as the class progresses.

'''Class Schedule:'''
Lecture classes will meet for the full two hours. Students should have read the assigned text before class and should bring the text with them to class.

Lecture 1: May 19
Translating ''Beowulf'': A Contemporary Poet and a Cultural Artifact

Lecture 2: May 26
''Beowulf'': The Monster, the Hero and the Cycle of Conquest and Revenge
The class will focus primarily on the first two episodes, the encounters with Grendel and Grendel’s mother (pages 3-131/lines 1-1904), although students are welcome to read beyond that in preparation for lecture.

Discussion 1: May 29, 12-14 '''Meeting Room:''' A6 2-212
''Beowulf'': Issues in textual analysis and further cultural explorations

Lecture 3: June 2
William Shakespeare, ''The Tempest'': The Island as Otherwhere, or Recreating the Center on the Margin

Discussion 2: June 3, 16-18 '''Meeting Room:''' A6 2-212
''The Tempest'': Close Reading and Performance Issues

Lecture 4: June 9
Jonanthan Swift, ''Gulliver’s Travels'', Book 4 (“A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms”): The Center as Margin

Discussion 3: June 12, 12-14 '''Meeting Room:''' A01 0-005
Gulliver and Other Travelers

Lecture 5: June 16
Wole Soyinka, ''Death and the King’s Horseman'': To Wrench the World Adrift

Lecture 6: June 23
Finish discussion of Soyinka
Christina Rossetti, ''Goblin Market'': The Female “Warrior” and the Domestic Center
(Students are only required to read the title poem, not the complete collection of poems.)

Lecture 7: June 30
Finish discussion of ''Goblin Market''
James Joyce, from ''Dubliners'' (“Araby” and “Eveline”)

Discussion 4: July 1, 16-18 '''Meeting Room:''' A6 2-212
Continued discussion of Joyce and introduction to Salman Rushdie, from ''East, West'' (“Good Advice is Rarer than Rubies”)

Lecture 8: July 7
Salman Rushdie, from ''East, West'' (“The Courter”) and Concluding Thoughts

[[Category:Summer 2008]]
[[Category:Aufbaumodul]]

2008 AM From New York to Ballybeg: Crosscurrents in Irish and American

2008-06-02T11:38:35Z

Mariadoyle:

{|align=right width=260px
!bgcolor=#DFDFDF|Please note that this course will start on May 19!
|}
*Lecturer: Maria Doyle
*Time: Mo, 14-16
*Venue: A10 1-121a
*Contact: [mailto:mdoyle@westga.edu mdoyle@westga.edu]

----

'''From New York to Ballybeg: Crosscurrents in Irish and American Drama'''

For the last several years, Irish plays have seemed to dominate Broadway with Brian Friel's small town of Ballybeg and Martin McDonagh's wickedly comic Leenane resituating themselves in the middle of Manhattan. At the beginning of the last century, it was a tour of Ireland's Abbey Theater that provided inspiration for American dramatist Eugene O'Neill, and several contemporary Irish playwrights have cited innovative American writers, like Tennessee Williams and David Mamet, as influences on their work. This course will explore these conversations across the Atlantic Ocean, examining not only the specific influences that writers have on one another but also larger questions of cultural exchange. How do these writers define their own sense of nationality? How is America imagined as a destination for immigrants, a space of opportunity or a site of violence? How is Ireland imagined in relation to this image? How do audiences in both spaces respond to these issues, and what does live performance contribute to that reaction?

'''Class requirements:'''

For Übung credit: regular attendance, active participation (especially during class sessions designated “discussion”), three short one-two page response essays, occasional out-of-class exercises as assigned.

'''Course Texts:'''

John Millington Synge, ''The Playboy of the Western World and Other Plays''

Eugene O'Neill, ''Long Day's Journey into Night''

Brian Friel, ''Philadelphia, Here I Come!'' (this can be purchased as an individual text or found in ''Selected Plays'')

Tennessee Williams, ''A Streetcar Named Desire''

Marina Carr, ''By the Bog of Cats'' (can be purchased individually or found in ''Marina Carr: Plays 1'')

David Mamet, ''American Buffalo''

Martin McDonagh, ''The Beauty Queen of Leenane and Other Plays''

A list of materials for further reading and exploration will be provided as the semester progresses.

'''Course Schedule:'''
Lecture classes will meet for the full two hours. Students should have read the assigned text before class and should bring the text with them to class.

Section I: Establishing a Conversation from Dublin to New York to Ballybeg

Lecture 1: May 19
J.M. Synge, ''The Playboy of the Western World'': Ireland’s National Theater and a Contested Idea of Nationhood

Lecture 2: May 26
Analysis of ''The Playboy of the Western World'' and the Influence of the Abbey Theater on Eugene O'Neill

Lecture 3: June 2
Eugene O'Neill, ''Long Day's Journey into Night''

Discussion 1: June 5, 14-16 '''Meeting Room:''' A05 1-159

''Philadelphia, Here I Come!'': Brian Friel's Irish America

Section II: American Trends and Irish Interpretations

Lecture 4: June 9
Tennessee Williams, ''A Streetcar Named Desire'': A Gothic Theater of the American South

Discussion 2: June 10, 14-16 '''Meeting Room:''' A05 1-159

O'Neill, Williams and an American Dramatic Tradition

Lecture 5: June 16
Marina Carr, ''By the Bog of Cats'': A Gothic Theater of the Irish Midlands

Discussion 3: June 17, 14-16 '''Meeting Room:''' A05 1-159

Comparative Analysis: Tennessee Williams and Marina Carr

Lecture 6: June 23
David Mamet, ''American Buffalo'': Language as Combat in the Wasteland of the American Dream

Lecture 7: June 30
Martin McDonagh, ''The Beauty Queen of Leenane'': Language as Combat in the Wasteland of the Irish West

Discussion 4: July 3, 14-16 '''Meeting Room:''' A05 0-056

Comparative Analysis: David Mamet and Martin McDonagh

Lecture 8: July 7

Explorations Further Afield: Some Concluding Thoughts on the Conversation

[[Category:Summer 2008]]
[[Category:Aufbaumodul]]

2008 AM Center and Margin: Conversations across the British Literary Tradition

2008-06-02T07:49:05Z

Mariadoyle:

{|align=right width=260px
!bgcolor=#DFDFDF|Please note that this course will start on May 19!
|}
*Lecturer: Maria Doyle
*Time: Mo, 10-12
*Venue: A10 1-121a
*Contact: [mailto:mdoyle@westga.edu mdoyle@westga.edu]

----
'''Center and Margin: Conversations across the British Literary Tradition'''

The British literary tradition begins with a story of movement between center and periphery, with a hero called to banish a monstrous outsider and restore the peace of a kingdom that is not his own. Thus, motion complicates the idea of the center – the site of cultural and political authority – and the margin – that which is considered outside, other, even monstrous. This negotiation raises questions about how we define these poles and how they influence one another, and this course will explore how writers throughout the British tradition, from earlier canonical authors to contemporary multicultural voices, have used this idea of travel to examine questions of cultural authority and to define their relationship to the idea of Britishness.

'''Class requirements:'''

For Übung credit: regular attendance, active participation (especially during class sessions designated “discussion”), three short one-two page response essays, occasional out-of-class exercises as assigned.

'''Course Texts:'''

Seamus Heaney, translator, ''Beowulf''

William Shakespeare, ''The Tempest''

Jonathan Swift, ''Gulliver's Travels''

Christina Rossetti, ''Goblin Market''

Jean Rhys, ''Wide Sargasso Sea''

Wole Soyinka, ''Death and the King's Horseman''

A list of materials for further reading and exploration will be provided as the class progresses.

'''Class Schedule:'''
Lecture classes will meet for the full two hours. Students should have read the assigned text before class and should bring the text with them to class.

Lecture 1: May 19
Translating ''Beowulf'': A Contemporary Poet and a Cultural Artifact

Lecture 2: May 26
''Beowulf'': The Monster, the Hero and the Cycle of Conquest and Revenge
The class will focus primarily on the first two episodes, the encounters with Grendel and Grendel’s mother (pages 3-131/lines 1-1904), although students are welcome to read beyond that in preparation for lecture.

Discussion 1: May 29, 12-14 '''Meeting Room:''' A6 2-212
''Beowulf'': Issues in textual analysis and further cultural explorations

Lecture 3: June 2
William Shakespeare, ''The Tempest'': The Island as Otherwhere, or Recreating the Center on the Margin

Discussion 2: June 3, 16-18 '''Meeting Room:''' A6 2-212
''The Tempest'': Close Reading and Performance Issues

Lecture 4: June 9
Jonanthan Swift, ''Gulliver’s Travels'', Book 4 (“A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms”): The Center as Margin

Discussion 3: June 12, 12-14 '''Meeting Room:''' A01 0-005
Gulliver and Other Travelers

Lecture 5: June 16
Wole Soyinka, ''Death and the King’s Horseman'': To Wrench the World Adrift

Lecture 6: June 23
Christina Rossetti, ''Goblin Market'': The Female “Warrior” and the Domestic Center
(Students are only required to read the title poem, not the complete collection of poems.)

Lecture 7: June 30
Jean Rhys, ''Wide Sargasso Sea'': A Community Transforming from Center to Margin

Discussion 4: July 1, 16-18 '''Meeting Room:''' A6 2-212
Some Issues for Comparison: Communal Identification and Gender Definitions

Lecture 8: July 7
James Joyce, from ''Dubliners'' (“Araby” and “Eveline”) and Salman Rushdie, from ''East, West'' (“Good Advice is Rarer than Rubies” and “The Courter”): The Short Story, Cultural Crossings and Concluding Thoughts

[[Category:Summer 2008]]
[[Category:Aufbaumodul]]

2008 AM Center and Margin: Conversations across the British Literary Tradition

2008-05-27T19:34:07Z

Mariadoyle:

{|align=right width=260px
!bgcolor=#DFDFDF|Please note that this course will start on May 19!
|}
*Lecturer: Maria Doyle
*Time: Mo, 10-12
*Venue: A10 1-121a
*Contact: [mailto:mdoyle@westga.edu mdoyle@westga.edu]

----
'''Center and Margin: Conversations across the British Literary Tradition'''

The British literary tradition begins with a story of movement between center and periphery, with a hero called to banish a monstrous outsider and restore the peace of a kingdom that is not his own. Thus, motion complicates the idea of the center – the site of cultural and political authority – and the margin – that which is considered outside, other, even monstrous. This negotiation raises questions about how we define these poles and how they influence one another, and this course will explore how writers throughout the British tradition, from earlier canonical authors to contemporary multicultural voices, have used this idea of travel to examine questions of cultural authority and to define their relationship to the idea of Britishness.

'''Class requirements:'''

For Übung credit: regular attendance, active participation (especially during class sessions designated “discussion”), three short one-two page response essays, occasional out-of-class exercises as assigned.

'''Course Texts:'''

Seamus Heaney, translator, ''Beowulf''

William Shakespeare, ''The Tempest''

Jonathan Swift, ''Gulliver's Travels''

Christina Rossetti, ''Goblin Market''

Jean Rhys, ''Wide Sargasso Sea''

Wole Soyinka, ''Death and the King's Horseman''

A list of materials for further reading and exploration will be provided as the class progresses.

'''Class Schedule:'''
Lecture classes will meet for the full two hours. Students should have read the assigned text before class and should bring the text with them to class.

Lecture 1: May 19
Translating ''Beowulf'': A Contemporary Poet and a Cultural Artifact

Lecture 2: May 26
''Beowulf'': The Monster, the Hero and the Cycle of Conquest and Revenge
The class will focus primarily on the first two episodes, the encounters with Grendel and Grendel’s mother (pages 3-131/lines 1-1904), although students are welcome to read beyond that in preparation for lecture.

Discussion 1: May 29, 12-14 '''Meeting Room:''' A6 2-212
''Beowulf'': Issues in textual analysis and further cultural explorations

Lecture 3: June 2
William Shakespeare, ''The Tempest'': The Island as Otherwhere, or Recreating the Center on the Margin

Discussion 2: June 3, 16-18
''The Tempest'': Close Reading and Performance Issues

Lecture 4: June 9
Jonanthan Swift, ''Gulliver’s Travels'', Book 4 (“A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms”): The Center as Margin

Discussion 3: June 12, 12-14
Gulliver and Other Travelers

Lecture 5: June 16
Wole Soyinka, ''Death and the King’s Horseman'': To Wrench the World Adrift

Lecture 6: June 23
Christina Rossetti, ''Goblin Market'': The Female “Warrior” and the Domestic Center
(Students are only required to read the title poem, not the complete collection of poems.)

Lecture 7: June 30
Jean Rhys, ''Wide Sargasso Sea'': A Community Transforming from Center to Margin

Discussion 4: July 1, 16-18
Some Issues for Comparison: Communal Identification and Gender Definitions

Lecture 8: July 7
James Joyce, from ''Dubliners'' (“Araby” and “Eveline”) and Salman Rushdie, from ''East, West'' (“Good Advice is Rarer than Rubies” and “The Courter”): The Short Story, Cultural Crossings and Concluding Thoughts

[[Category:Summer 2008]]
[[Category:Aufbaumodul]]

2008 AM From New York to Ballybeg: Crosscurrents in Irish and American

2008-05-20T11:33:46Z

Mariadoyle:

{|align=right width=260px
!bgcolor=#DFDFDF|Please note that this course will start on May 19!
|}
*Lecturer: Maria Doyle
*Time: Mo, 14-16
*Venue: A10 1-121a
*Contact: [mailto:mdoyle@westga.edu mdoyle@westga.edu]

----

'''From New York to Ballybeg: Crosscurrents in Irish and American Drama'''

For the last several years, Irish plays have seemed to dominate Broadway with Brian Friel's small town of Ballybeg and Martin McDonagh's wickedly comic Leenane resituating themselves in the middle of Manhattan. At the beginning of the last century, it was a tour of Ireland's Abbey Theater that provided inspiration for American dramatist Eugene O'Neill, and several contemporary Irish playwrights have cited innovative American writers, like Tennessee Williams and David Mamet, as influences on their work. This course will explore these conversations across the Atlantic Ocean, examining not only the specific influences that writers have on one another but also larger questions of cultural exchange. How do these writers define their own sense of nationality? How is America imagined as a destination for immigrants, a space of opportunity or a site of violence? How is Ireland imagined in relation to this image? How do audiences in both spaces respond to these issues, and what does live performance contribute to that reaction?

'''Class requirements:'''

For Übung credit: regular attendance, active participation (especially during class sessions designated “discussion”), three short one-two page response essays, occasional out-of-class exercises as assigned.

'''Course Texts:'''

John Millington Synge, ''The Playboy of the Western World and Other Plays''

Eugene O'Neill, ''Long Day's Journey into Night''

Brian Friel, ''Philadelphia, Here I Come!'' (this can be purchased as an individual text or found in ''Selected Plays'')

Tennessee Williams, ''A Streetcar Named Desire''

Marina Carr, ''By the Bog of Cats'' (can be purchased individually or found in ''Marina Carr: Plays 1'')

David Mamet, ''American Buffalo''

Martin McDonagh, ''The Beauty Queen of Leenane and Other Plays''

A list of materials for further reading and exploration will be provided as the semester progresses.

'''Course Schedule:'''
Lecture classes will meet for the full two hours. Students should have read the assigned text before class and should bring the text with them to class.

Section I: Establishing a Conversation from Dublin to New York to Ballybeg

Lecture 1: May 19
J.M. Synge, ''The Playboy of the Western World'': Ireland’s National Theater and a Contested Idea of Nationhood

Lecture 2: May 26
Analysis of ''The Playboy of the Western World'' and the Influence of the Abbey Theater on Eugene O'Neill

Lecture 3: June 2
Eugene O'Neill, ''Long Day's Journey into Night''

Discussion 1: June 5, 14-16

''Philadelphia, Here I Come!'': Brian Friel's Irish America

Section II: American Trends and Irish Interpretations

Lecture 4: June 9
Tennessee Williams, ''A Streetcar Named Desire'': A Gothic Theater of the American South

Discussion 2: June 10, 14-16

O'Neill, Williams and an American Dramatic Tradition

Lecture 5: June 16
Marina Carr, ''By the Bog of Cats'': A Gothic Theater of the Irish Midlands

Discussion 3: June 17, 14-16

Comparative Analysis: Tennessee Williams and Marina Carr

Lecture 6: June 23
David Mamet, ''American Buffalo'': Language as Combat in the Wasteland of the American Dream

Lecture 7: June 30
Martin McDonagh, ''The Beauty Queen of Leenane'': Language as Combat in the Wasteland of the Irish West

Discussion 4: July 3, 14-16

Comparative Analysis: David Mamet and Martin McDonagh

Lecture 8: July 7

Explorations Further Afield: Some Concluding Thoughts on the Conversation

[[Category:Summer 2008]]
[[Category:Aufbaumodul]]

2008 AM From New York to Ballybeg: Crosscurrents in Irish and American

2008-05-20T10:44:29Z

Mariadoyle:

{|align=right width=260px
!bgcolor=#DFDFDF|Please note that this course will start on May 19!
|}
*Lecturer: Maria Doyle
*Time: Mo, 14-16
*Venue: A10 1-121a
*Contact: [mailto:mdoyle@westga.edu mdoyle@westga.edu]

----

'''From New York to Ballybeg: Crosscurrents in Irish and American Drama'''

For the last several years, Irish plays have seemed to dominate Broadway with Brian Friel's small town of Ballybeg and Martin McDonagh's wickedly comic Leenane resituating themselves in the middle of Manhattan. At the beginning of the last century, it was a tour of Ireland's Abbey Theater that provided inspiration for American dramatist Eugene O'Neill, and several contemporary Irish playwrights have cited innovative American writers, like Tennessee Williams and David Mamet, as influences on their work. This course will explore these conversations across the Atlantic Ocean, examining not only the specific influences that writers have on one another but also larger questions of cultural exchange. How do these writers define their own sense of nationality? How is America imagined as a destination for immigrants, a space of opportunity or a site of violence? How is Ireland imagined in relation to this image? How do audiences in both spaces respond to these issues, and what does live performance contribute to that reaction?

'''Class requirements:'''

For Übung credit: regular attendance, active participation (especially during class sessions designated “discussion”), three short one-two page response essays, occasional out-of-class exercises as assigned.

'''Course Texts:'''

John Millington Synge, ''The Playboy of the Western World and Other Plays''

Eugene O'Neill, ''Long Day's Journey into Night''

Brian Friel, ''Philadelphia, Here I Come!'' (this can be purchased as an individual text or found in ''Selected Plays'')

Tennessee Williams, ''A Streetcar Named Desire''

Marina Carr, ''By the Bog of Cats'' (can be purchased individually or found in ''Marina Carr: Plays 1'')

David Mamet, ''American Buffalo''

Martin McDonagh, ''The Beauty Queen of Leenane and Other Plays''

A list of materials for further reading and exploration will be provided as the semester progresses.

'''Course Schedule:'''
Lecture classes will meet for the full two hours. Students should have read the assigned text before class and should bring the text with them to class.

Section I: Establishing a Conversation from Dublin to New York to Ballybeg

Lecture 1: May 19
J.M. Synge, ''The Playboy of the Western World'': Ireland’s National Theater and a Contested Idea of Nationhood

Lecture 2: May 26
Analysis of ''The Playboy of the Western World'' and the Influence of the Abbey Theater on Eugene O'Neill

Lecture 3: June 2
Eugene O'Neill, ''Long Day's Journey into Night''

Discussion 1: June 5, 14-16

''Philadelphia, Here I Come!'': Brian Friel's Irish America, Part 1

Section II: American Trends and Irish Interpretations

Lecture 4: June 9
Tennessee Williams, ''A Streetcar Named Desire'': A Gothic Theater of the American South

Discussion 2: June 10, 14-16

''Philadelphia, Here I Come!'': Brian Friel's Irish America, Part 2

Lecture 5: June 16
Marina Carr, ''By the Bog of Cats'': A Gothic Theater of the Irish Midlands

Discussion 3: June 17, 14-16

Comparative Analysis: Tennessee Williams and Marina Carr

Lecture 6: June 23
David Mamet, ''American Buffalo'': Language as Combat in the Wasteland of the American Dream

Lecture 7: June 30
Martin McDonagh, ''The Beauty Queen of Leenane'': Language as Combat in the Wasteland of the Irish West

Discussion 4: July 3, 14-16

Comparative Analysis: David Mamet and Martin McDonagh

Lecture 8: July 7

Explorations Further Afield: Some Concluding Thoughts on the Conversation

[[Category:Summer 2008]]
[[Category:Aufbaumodul]]

2008 AM Center and Margin: Conversations across the British Literary Tradition

2008-05-20T10:32:49Z

Mariadoyle:

{|align=right width=260px
!bgcolor=#DFDFDF|Please note that this course will start on May 19!
|}
*Lecturer: Maria Doyle
*Time: Mo, 10-12
*Venue: A10 1-121a
*Contact: [mailto:mdoyle@westga.edu mdoyle@westga.edu]

----
'''Center and Margin: Conversations across the British Literary Tradition'''

The British literary tradition begins with a story of movement between center and periphery, with a hero called to banish a monstrous outsider and restore the peace of a kingdom that is not his own. Thus, motion complicates the idea of the center – the site of cultural and political authority – and the margin – that which is considered outside, other, even monstrous. This negotiation raises questions about how we define these poles and how they influence one another, and this course will explore how writers throughout the British tradition, from earlier canonical authors to contemporary multicultural voices, have used this idea of travel to examine questions of cultural authority and to define their relationship to the idea of Britishness.

'''Class requirements:'''

For Übung credit: regular attendance, active participation (especially during class sessions designated “discussion”), three short one-two page response essays, occasional out-of-class exercises as assigned.

'''Course Texts:'''

Seamus Heaney, translator, ''Beowulf''

William Shakespeare, ''The Tempest''

Jonathan Swift, ''Gulliver's Travels''

Christina Rossetti, ''Goblin Market''

Jean Rhys, ''Wide Sargasso Sea''

Wole Soyinka, ''Death and the King's Horseman''

A list of materials for further reading and exploration will be provided as the class progresses.

'''Class Schedule:'''
Lecture classes will meet for the full two hours. Students should have read the assigned text before class and should bring the text with them to class.

Lecture 1: May 19
Translating ''Beowulf'': A Contemporary Poet and a Cultural Artifact

Lecture 2: May 26
''Beowulf'': The Monster, the Hero and the Cycle of Conquest and Revenge
The class will focus primarily on the first two episodes, the encounters with Grendel and Grendel’s mother (pages 3-131/lines 1-1904), although students are welcome to read beyond that in preparation for lecture.

Discussion 1: May 29, 12-14
''Beowulf'': Issues in textual analysis and further cultural explorations

Lecture 3: June 2
William Shakespeare, ''The Tempest'': The Island as Otherwhere, or Recreating the Center on the Margin

Discussion 2: June 3, 16-18
''The Tempest'': Close Reading and Performance Issues

Lecture 4: June 9
Jonanthan Swift, ''Gulliver’s Travels'', Book 4 (“A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms”): The Center as Margin

Discussion 3: June 12, 12-14
Gulliver and Other Travelers

Lecture 5: June 16
Wole Soyinka, ''Death and the King’s Horseman'': To Wrench the World Adrift

Lecture 6: June 23
Christina Rossetti, ''Goblin Market'': The Female “Warrior” and the Domestic Center
(Students are only required to read the title poem, not the complete collection of poems.)

Lecture 7: June 30
Jean Rhys, ''Wide Sargasso Sea'': A Community Transforming from Center to Margin

Discussion 4: July 1, 16-18
Some Issues for Comparison: Communal Identification and Gender Definitions

Lecture 8: July 7
James Joyce, from ''Dubliners'' (“Araby” and “Eveline”) and Salman Rushdie, from ''East, West'' (“Good Advice is Rarer than Rubies” and “The Courter”): The Short Story, Cultural Crossings and Concluding Thoughts

[[Category:Summer 2008]]
[[Category:Aufbaumodul]]

2008 AM Center and Margin: Conversations across the British Literary Tradition

2008-05-16T13:53:55Z

Mariadoyle:

{|align=right width=260px
!bgcolor=#DFDFDF|Please note that this course will start on May 19!
|}
*Lecturer: Maria Doyle
*Time: Mo, 10-12
*Venue: A10 1-121a
*Contact: [mailto:mdoyle@westga.edu mdoyle@westga.edu]

----
'''Center and Margin: Conversations across the British Literary Tradition'''

The British literary tradition begins with a story of movement between center and periphery, with a hero called to banish a monstrous outsider and restore the peace of a kingdom that is not his own. Thus, motion complicates the idea of the center – the site of cultural and political authority – and the margin – that which is considered outside, other, even monstrous. This negotiation raises questions about how we define these poles and how they influence one another, and this course will explore how writers throughout the British tradition, from earlier canonical authors to contemporary multicultural voices, have used this idea of travel to examine questions of cultural authority and to define their relationship to the idea of Britishness.

'''Class requirements:'''

For Uebung credit: regular attendance, active participation (especially during class sessions designated “discussion”), three short one-two page response essays, occasional out-of-class exercises as assigned.

'''Course Texts:'''

Seamus Heaney, translator, ''Beowulf''

William Shakespeare, ''The Tempest''

Jonathan Swift, ''Gulliver's Travels''

Christina Rossetti, ''Goblin Market''

Jean Rhys, ''Wide Sargasso Sea''

Wole Soyinka, ''Death and the King's Horseman''

A list of materials for further reading will be provided as the class progresses.

'''Class Schedule:'''

Lecture 1: May 19

Translating ''Beowulf'' : A Contemporary Poet and a Cultural Artifact

Lecture 2: May 26

''Beowulf'': The Monster, the Hero and the Cycle of Conquest and Revenge

Discussion 1: Time to be determined, week of May 26

''Beowulf'': Issues in Textual Analysis

Lecture 3: June 2

William Shakespeare, ''The Tempest'': The Island as Otherwhere, or Recreating the Center on the Margin

Discussion 2: Time to be determined, week of June 2

''The Tempest'': Close Reading and Performance Issues

Lecture 4: June 9

Jonanthan Swift, ''Gulliver’s Travels'', Book 4: The Center as Margin

Discussion 3: Time to be determined, week of June 9

''Gulliver’s Travels'': Dissecting Satire

Lecture 5: June 16

Wole Soyinka, ''Death and the King’s Horseman'': To Wrench the World Adrift

Discussion 4: Time to be determined, week of June 16

''Death and the King’s Horseman'': Tragic Form and Performance

Lecture 6: June 23

Christina Rossetti, ''Goblin Market'': The Female “Warrior” and the Domestic Center

Discussion 5: Time to be determined, week of June 23

Christina Rossetti and Charlotte Brontë: Victorian Issues in Female Monstrosity

Lecture 7: June 30

Jean Rhys, ''Wide Sargasso Sea'': A Community Transforming from Center to Margin

Discussion 6: Time to be determined, week of June 30

''Wide Sargasso Sea'': Some Issues of Language

Lecture 8: July 7

James Joyce, from ''Dubliners'' (“Araby” and “Eveline”) and Salman Rushdie, from ''East, West'' (“Good Advice is Rarer than Rubies” and “The Courter”): The Short Story, Cultural Crossings and Concluding Thoughts

[[Category:Summer 2008]]
[[Category:Aufbaumodul]]

2008 AM From New York to Ballybeg: Crosscurrents in Irish and American

2008-05-16T13:53:00Z

Mariadoyle:

{|align=right width=260px
!bgcolor=#DFDFDF|Please note that this course will start on May 19!
|}
*Lecturer: Maria Doyle
*Time: Mo, 14-16
*Venue: A10 1-121a
*Contact: [mailto:mdoyle@westga.edu mdoyle@westga.edu]

----

'''From New York to Ballybeg: Crosscurrents in Irish and American Drama'''

For the last several years, Irish plays have seemed to dominate Broadway with Brian Friel's small town of Ballybeg and Martin McDonagh's wickedly comic Leenane resituating themselves in the middle of Manhattan. At the beginning of the last century, it was a tour of Ireland's Abbey Theater that provided inspiration for American dramatist Eugene O'Neill, and several contemporary Irish playwrights have cited innovative American writers, like Tennessee Williams and David Mamet, as influences on their work. This course will explore these conversations across the Atlantic Ocean, examining not only the specific influences that writers have on one another but also larger questions of cultural exchange. How do these writers define their own sense of nationality? How is America imagined as a destination for immigrants, a space of opportunity or a site of violence? How is Ireland imagined in relation to this image? How do audiences in both spaces respond to these issues, and what does live performance contribute to that reaction?

'''Class requirements:'''

For Uebung credit: regular attendance, active participation (especially during class sessions designated “discussion”), three short one-two page response essays, occasional out-of-class exercises as assigned.

'''Course Texts:'''

John Millington Synge, ''The Playboy of the Western World and Other Plays''

Eugene O'Neill, ''Long Day's Journey into Night''

Brian Friel, ''Philadelphia, Here I Come!'' (this can be purchased as an individual text or found in ''Selected Plays'')

Tennessee Williams, ''A Streetcar Named Desire''

Marina Carr, ''By the Bog of Cats'' (can be purchased individually or found in ''Marina Carr: Plays 1'')

David Mamet, ''American Buffalo''

Martin McDonagh, ''The Beauty Queen of Leenane and Other Plays''

A list of materials for further reading and exploration will be provided as the semester progresses.

'''Course Schedule:'''

Section I: Establishing a Conversation from Dublin to New York to Ballybeg

Lecture 1: May 19

J.M. Synge, ''The Playboy of the Western World'': Ireland’s National Theater and a Contested Idea of Nationhood

Lecture 2: May 26

Eugene O’Neill, ''Long Day’s Journey into Night'': Irish Drama and the Rise of American Theater

Discussion 1: Time to be determined, week of May 26

Synge and O’Neill: Issues in Language and Performance

Lecture 3: June 2

Brian Friel, ''Philadelphia, Here I Come!'': Imagining America from Ireland

Discussion 2: Time to be determined, week of June 2

O’Neill and Friel: Crosscurrents

Section II: American Trends and Irish Interpretations

Lecture 4: June 9

Tennessee Williams, ''A Streetcar Named Desire'': A Gothic Theater of the American South

Discussion 3: Time to be determined, week of June 9

The Poetics of Tennessee Williams’s Drama

Lecture 5: June 16

Marina Carr, ''By the Bog of Cats'': A Gothic Theater of the Irish Midlands

Discussion 4: Time to be determined, week of June 16

''By the Bog of Cats'': White Dresses and Female Violence

Lecture 6: June 23

David Mamet, ''American Buffalo'': Language as Combat in the Wasteland of the American Dream

Discussion 5: Time to be determined, week of June 23

''American Buffalo'': Thugs, Junk and Masculinity

Lecture 7: June 30

Martin McDonagh, ''The Beauty Queen of Leenane'': Language as Combat in the Wasteland of the Irish West

Discussion 6: Time to be determined, week of June 30

''The Beauty Queen of Leenane'': Martin McDonagh’s "Oirish" Ireland

Lecture 8: July 7

Explorations Further Afield: Some Concluding Thoughts on the Conversation

[[Category:Summer 2008]]
[[Category:Aufbaumodul]]

2008 AM Center and Margin: Conversations across the British Literary Tradition

2008-05-14T15:43:26Z

Mariadoyle:

{|align=right width=260px
!bgcolor=#DFDFDF|Please note that this course will start on May 19!
|}
*Lecturer: Maria Doyle
*Time: Mo, 10-12
*Venue: A10 1-121a
*Contact: [mailto:mdoyle@westga.edu mdoyle@westga.edu]

----
'''Center and Margin: Conversations across the British Literary Tradition'''

The British literary tradition begins with a story of movement between center and periphery, with a hero called to banish a monstrous outsider and restore the peace of a kingdom that is not his own. Thus, motion complicates the idea of the center – the site of cultural and political authority – and the margin – that which is considered outside, other, even monstrous. This negotiation raises questions about how we define these poles and how they influence one another, and this course will explore how writers throughout the British tradition, from earlier canonical authors to contemporary multicultural voices, have used this idea of travel to examine questions of cultural authority and to define their relationship to the idea of Britishness.

'''Class requirements:'''

For everyone: regular attendance, active participation (especially during class sessions designated “discussion”), three short one-two page response essays, occasional out-of-class exercises as assigned; for advanced credit (6 KP), students must complete a ten-twelve page research paper preceded by a one-two page research proposal or 10-minute oral presentation (students wishing to pursue this option should consult with me).

'''Course Texts:'''

Seamus Heaney, translator, ''Beowulf''

William Shakespeare, ''The Tempest''

Jonathan Swift, ''Gulliver's Travels''

Christina Rossetti, ''Goblin Market''

Jean Rhys, ''Wide Sargasso Sea''

Wole Soyinka, ''Death and the King's Horseman''

A list of materials for further reading will be provided as the class progresses.

'''Class Schedule:'''

Lecture 1: May 19

Translating ''Beowulf'' : A Contemporary Poet and a Cultural Artifact

Lecture 2: May 26

''Beowulf'': The Monster, the Hero and the Cycle of Conquest and Revenge

Discussion 1: Time to be determined, week of May 26

''Beowulf'': Issues in Textual Analysis

Lecture 3: June 2

William Shakespeare, ''The Tempest'': The Island as Otherwhere, or Recreating the Center on the Margin

Discussion 2: Time to be determined, week of June 2

''The Tempest'': Close Reading and Performance Issues

Lecture 4: June 9

Jonanthan Swift, ''Gulliver’s Travels'', Book 4: The Center as Margin

Discussion 3: Time to be determined, week of June 9

''Gulliver’s Travels'': Dissecting Satire

Lecture 5: June 16

Wole Soyinka, ''Death and the King’s Horseman'': To Wrench the World Adrift

Discussion 4: Time to be determined, week of June 16

''Death and the King’s Horseman'': Tragic Form and Performance

Lecture 6: June 23

Christina Rossetti, ''Goblin Market'': The Female “Warrior” and the Domestic Center

Discussion 5: Time to be determined, week of June 23

Christina Rossetti and Charlotte Brontë: Victorian Issues in Female Monstrosity

Lecture 7: June 30

Jean Rhys, ''Wide Sargasso Sea'': A Community Transforming from Center to Margin

Discussion 6: Time to be determined, week of June 30

''Wide Sargasso Sea'': Some Issues of Language

Lecture 8: July 7

James Joyce, from ''Dubliners'' (“Araby” and “Eveline”) and Salman Rushdie, from ''East, West'' (“Good Advice is Rarer than Rubies” and “The Courter”): The Short Story, Cultural Crossings and Concluding Thoughts

[[Category:Summer 2008]]
[[Category:Aufbaumodul]]

2008 AM From New York to Ballybeg: Crosscurrents in Irish and American

2008-05-14T15:39:42Z

Mariadoyle:

{|align=right width=260px
!bgcolor=#DFDFDF|Please note that this course will start on May 19!
|}
*Lecturer: Maria Doyle
*Time: Mo, 14-16
*Venue: A10 1-121a
*Contact: [mailto:mdoyle@westga.edu mdoyle@westga.edu]

----

'''From New York to Ballybeg: Crosscurrents in Irish and American Drama'''

For the last several years, Irish plays have seemed to dominate Broadway with Brian Friel's small town of Ballybeg and Martin McDonagh's wickedly comic Leenane resituating themselves in the middle of Manhattan. At the beginning of the last century, it was a tour of Ireland's Abbey Theater that provided inspiration for American dramatist Eugene O'Neill, and several contemporary Irish playwrights have cited innovative American writers, like Tennessee Williams and David Mamet, as influences on their work. This course will explore these conversations across the Atlantic Ocean, examining not only the specific influences that writers have on one another but also larger questions of cultural exchange. How do these writers define their own sense of nationality? How is America imagined as a destination for immigrants, a space of opportunity or a site of violence? How is Ireland imagined in relation to this image? How do audiences in both spaces respond to these issues, and what does live performance contribute to that reaction?

'''Class requirements:'''

For everyone: regular attendance, active participation (especially during class sessions designated “discussion”), three short one-two page response essays, occasional out-of-class exercises as assigned; for advanced credit (6 KP), students must complete a ten-twelve page research paper preceded by a one-two page research proposal or 10-minute oral presentation (students wishing to pursue this option should consult with me).

'''Course Texts:'''

John Millington Synge, ''The Playboy of the Western World and Other Plays''

Eugene O'Neill, ''Long Day's Journey into Night''

Brian Friel, ''Philadelphia, Here I Come!'' (this can be purchased as an individual text or found in ''Selected Plays'')

Tennessee Williams, ''A Streetcar Named Desire''

Marina Carr, ''By the Bog of Cats'' (can be purchased individually or found in ''Marina Carr: Plays 1'')

David Mamet, ''American Buffalo''

Martin McDonagh, ''The Beauty Queen of Leenane and Other Plays''

A list of materials for further reading and exploration will be provided as the semester progresses.

'''Course Schedule:'''

Section I: Establishing a Conversation from Dublin to New York to Ballybeg

Lecture 1: May 19

J.M. Synge, ''The Playboy of the Western World'': Ireland’s National Theater and a Contested Idea of Nationhood

Lecture 2: May 26

Eugene O’Neill, ''Long Day’s Journey into Night'': Irish Drama and the Rise of American Theater

Discussion 1: Time to be determined, week of May 26

Synge and O’Neill: Issues in Language and Performance

Lecture 3: June 2

Brian Friel, ''Philadelphia, Here I Come!'': Imagining America from Ireland

Discussion 2: Time to be determined, week of June 2

O’Neill and Friel: Crosscurrents

Section II: American Trends and Irish Interpretations

Lecture 4: June 9

Tennessee Williams, ''A Streetcar Named Desire'': A Gothic Theater of the American South

Discussion 3: Time to be determined, week of June 9

The Poetics of Tennessee Williams’s Drama

Lecture 5: June 16

Marina Carr, ''By the Bog of Cats'': A Gothic Theater of the Irish Midlands

Discussion 4: Time to be determined, week of June 16

''By the Bog of Cats'': White Dresses and Female Violence

Lecture 6: June 23

David Mamet, ''American Buffalo'': Language as Combat in the Wasteland of the American Dream

Discussion 5: Time to be determined, week of June 23

''American Buffalo'': Thugs, Junk and Masculinity

Lecture 7: June 30

Martin McDonagh, ''The Beauty Queen of Leenane'': Language as Combat in the Wasteland of the Irish West

Discussion 6: Time to be determined, week of June 30

''The Beauty Queen of Leenane'': Martin McDonagh’s "Oirish" Ireland

Lecture 8: July 7

Explorations Further Afield: Some Concluding Thoughts on the Conversation

[[Category:Summer 2008]]
[[Category:Aufbaumodul]]

2008 AM From New York to Ballybeg: Crosscurrents in Irish and American

2008-05-14T15:36:34Z

Mariadoyle:

{|align=right width=260px
!bgcolor=#DFDFDF|Please note that this course will start on May 19!
|}
*Lecturer: Maria Doyle
*Time: Mo, 14-16
*Venue: A10 1-121a
*Contact: [mailto:mdoyle@westga.edu mdoyle@westga.edu]

----

'''From New York to Ballybeg: Crosscurrents in Irish and American Drama'''

For the last several years, Irish plays have seemed to dominate Broadway with Brian Friel's small town of Ballybeg and Martin McDonagh's wickedly comic Leenane resituating themselves in the middle of Manhattan. At the beginning of the last century, it was a tour of Ireland's Abbey Theater that provided inspiration for American dramatist Eugene O'Neill, and several contemporary Irish playwrights have cited innovative American writers, like Tennessee Williams and David Mamet, as influences on their work. This course will explore these conversations across the Atlantic Ocean, examining not only the specific influences that writers have on one another but also larger questions of cultural exchange. How do these writers define their own sense of nationality? How is America imagined as a destination for immigrants, a space of opportunity or a site of violence? How is Ireland imagined in relation to this image? How do audiences in both spaces respond to these issues, and what does live performance contribute to that reaction?

'''Class requirements:'''

For everyone: regular attendance, active participation (especially during class sessions designated “discussion”), three short one-two page response essays, occasional out-of-class exercises as assigned; for advanced credit (6 KP), students must complete a ten-twelve page research paper preceded by a one-two page research proposal or 10-minute oral presentation (students wishing to pursue this option should consult with me).

'''Course Texts:'''

John Millington Synge, ''The Playboy of the Western World and Other Plays''

Eugene O'Neill, ''Long Day's Journey into Night''

Brian Friel, ''Philadelphia, Here I Come!'' (this can be purchased as an individual text or found in ''Selected Plays'')

Tennessee Williams, ''A Streetcar Named Desire''

Marina Carr, ''By the Bog of Cats'' (can be purchased individually or found in ''Marina Carr: Plays 1'')

David Mamet, ''American Buffalo''

Martin McDonagh, ''The Beauty Queen of Leenane and Other Plays''

A list of materials for further reading and exploration will be provided as the semester progresses.

'''Course Schedule:'''

Section I: Establishing a Conversation from Dublin to New York to Ballybeg

Lecture 1: May 19
J.M. Synge, ''The Playboy of the Western World'': Ireland’s National Theater and a Contested Idea of Nationhood

Lecture 2: May 26
Eugene O’Neill, ''Long Day’s Journey into Night'': Irish Drama and the Rise of American Theater

Discussion 1: Time to be determined, week of May 26
Synge and O’Neill: Issues in Language and Performance

Lecture 3: June 2
Brian Friel, ''Philadelphia, Here I Come!'': Imagining America from Ireland

Discussion 2: Time to be determined, week of June 2
O’Neill and Friel: Crosscurrents

Section II: American Trends and Irish Interpretations
Lecture 4: June 9
Tennessee Williams, ''A Streetcar Named Desire'': A Gothic Theater of the American South

Discussion 3: Time to be determined, week of June 9
The Poetics of Tennessee Williams’s Drama

Lecture 5: June 16
Marina Carr, ''By the Bog of Cats'': A Gothic Theater of the Irish Midlands

Discussion 4: Time to be determined, week of June 16
''By the Bog of Cats'': White Dresses and Female Violence

Lecture 6: June 23
David Mamet, ''American Buffalo'': Language as Combat in the Wasteland of the American Dream

Discussion 5: Time to be determined, week of June 23
''American Buffalo'': Thugs, Junk and Masculinity

Lecture 7: June 30
Martin McDonagh, ''The Beauty Queen of Leenane'': Language as Combat in the Wasteland of the Irish West

Discussion 6: Time to be determined, week of June 30
''The Beauty Queen of Leenane'': Martin McDonagh’s "Oirish" Ireland

Lecture 8: July 7
Explorations Further Afield: Some Concluding Thoughts on the Conversation

[[Category:Summer 2008]]
[[Category:Aufbaumodul]]

2008 AM Center and Margin: Conversations across the British Literary Tradition

2008-05-14T15:26:03Z

Mariadoyle:

{|align=right width=260px
!bgcolor=#DFDFDF|Please note that this course will start on May 19!
|}
*Lecturer: Maria Doyle
*Time: Mo, 10-12
*Venue: A10 1-121a
*Contact: [mailto:mdoyle@westga.edu mdoyle@westga.edu]

----
'''"Center and Margin: Conversations across the British Literary Tradition"'''

The British literary tradition begins with a story of movement between center and periphery, with a hero called to banish a monstrous outsider and restore the peace of a kingdom that is not his own. Thus, motion complicates the idea of the center – the site of cultural and political authority – and the margin – that which is considered outside, other, even monstrous. This negotiation raises questions about how we define these poles and how they influence one another, and this course will explore how writers throughout the British tradition, from earlier canonical authors to contemporary multicultural voices, have used this idea of travel to examine questions of cultural authority and to define their relationship to the idea of Britishness.

'''Class requirements:'''

For everyone: regular attendance, active participation (especially during class sessions designated “discussion”), three short one-two page response essays, occasional out-of-class exercises as assigned; for advanced credit (6 KP), students must complete a ten-twelve page research paper preceded by a one-two page research proposal or 10-minute oral presentation (students wishing to pursue this option should consult with me).

'''Course Texts:'''

Seamus Heaney, translator, ''Beowulf''
William Shakespeare, ''The Tempest''
Jonathan Swift, ''Gulliver's Travels''
Christina Rossetti, ''Goblin Market''
Jean Rhys, ''Wide Sargasso Sea''
Wole Soyinka, ''Death and the King's Horseman''

A list of materials for further reading will be provided as the class progresses.

'''Class Schedule:'''

Lecture 1: May 19
Translating ''Beowulf'' : A Contemporary Poet and a Cultural Artifact

Lecture 2: May 26
''Beowulf'': The Monster, the Hero and the Cycle of Conquest and Revenge

Discussion 1: Time to be determined, week of May 26
''Beowulf'': Issues in Textual Analysis

Lecture 3: June 2
William Shakespeare, ''The Tempest'': The Island as Otherwhere, or Recreating the Center on the Margin

Discussion 2: Time to be determined, week of June 2
''The Tempest'': Close Reading and Performance Issues

Lecture 4: June 9
Jonanthan Swift, ''Gulliver’s Travels'', Book 4: The Center as Margin

Discussion 3: Time to be determined, week of June 9
''Gulliver’s Travels'': Dissecting Satire

Lecture 5: June 16
Wole Soyinka, ''Death and the King’s Horseman'': To Wrench the World Adrift

Discussion 4: Time to be determined, week of June 16
''Death and the King’s Horseman'': Tragic Form and Performance

Lecture 6: June 23
Christina Rossetti, ''Goblin Market'': The Female “Warrior” and the Domestic Center

Discussion 5: Time to be determined, week of June 23
Christina Rossetti and Charlotte Brontë: Victorian Issues in Female Monstrosity

Lecture 7: June 30
Jean Rhys, ''Wide Sargasso Sea'': A Community Transforming from Center to Margin

Discussion 6: Time to be determined, week of June 30
''Wide Sargasso Sea'': Some Issues of Language

Lecture 8: July 7
James Joyce, from ''Dubliners'' (“Araby” and “Eveline”) and Salman Rushdie, from ''East, West'' (“Good Advice is Rarer than Rubies” and “The Courter”): The Short Story, Cultural Crossings and Concluding Thoughts

[[Category:Summer 2008]]
[[Category:Aufbaumodul]]

2008 AM Center and Margin: Conversations across the British Literary Tradition

2008-05-14T15:19:30Z

Mariadoyle:

{|align=right width=260px
!bgcolor=#DFDFDF|Please note that this course will start on May 19!
|}
*Lecturer: Maria Doyle
*Time: Mo, 10-12
*Venue: A10 1-121a
*Contact: [mailto:mdoyle@westga.edu mdoyle@westga.edu]

----
"Center and Margin: Conversations across the British Literary Tradition"

The British literary tradition begins with a story of movement between center and periphery, with a hero called to banish a monstrous outsider and restore the peace of a kingdom that is not his own. Thus, motion complicates the idea of the center – the site of cultural and political authority – and the margin – that which is considered outside, other, even monstrous. This negotiation raises questions about how we define these poles and how they influence one another, and this course will explore how writers throughout the British tradition, from earlier canonical authors to contemporary multicultural voices, have used this idea of travel to examine questions of cultural authority and to define their relationship to the idea of Britishness.

Class requirements:
For everyone: regular attendance, active participation (especially during class sessions designated “discussion”), three short one-two page response essays, occasional out-of-class exercises as assigned; for advanced credit (6 KP), students must complete a ten-twelve page research paper preceded by a one-two page research proposal or 10-minute oral presentation (students wishing to pursue this option should consult with me).

Lecture 1: May 19
Translating ''Beowulf'' : A Contemporary Poet and a Cultural Artifact

Lecture 2: May 26
''Beowulf'': The Monster, the Hero and the Cycle of Conquest and Revenge

Discussion 1: Time to be determined, week of May 26
''Beowulf'': Issues in Textual Analysis

Lecture 3: June 2
William Shakespeare, ''The Tempest'': The Island as Otherwhere, or Recreating the Center on the Margin

Discussion 2: Time to be determined, week of June 2
''The Tempest'': Close Reading and Performance Issues

Lecture 4: June 9
Jonanthan Swift, ''Gulliver’s Travels'', Book 4: The Center as Margin

Discussion 3: Time to be determined, week of June 9
''Gulliver’s Travels'': Dissecting Satire

Lecture 5: June 16
Wole Soyinka, ''Death and the King’s Horseman'': To Wrench the World Adrift

Discussion 4: Time to be determined, week of June 16
''Death and the King’s Horseman'': Tragic Form and Performance

Lecture 6: June 23
Christina Rossetti, ''Goblin Market'': The Female “Warrior” and the Domestic Center

Discussion 5: Time to be determined, week of June 23
Christina Rossetti and Charlotte Brontë: Victorian Issues in Female Monstrosity

Lecture 7: June 30
Jean Rhys, ''Wide Sargasso Sea'': A Community Transforming from Center to Margin

Discussion 6: Time to be determined, week of June 30
''Wide Sargasso Sea'': Some Issues of Language

Lecture 8: July 7
James Joyce, from ''Dubliners'' (“Araby” and “Eveline”) and Salman Rushdie, from ''East, West'' (“Good Advice is Rarer than Rubies” and “The Courter”): The Short Story, Cultural Crossings and Concluding Thoughts

[[Category:Summer 2008]]
[[Category:Aufbaumodul]]