Modern & Contemp Irish Lit

Prerequisite: ENGL 203 and ENGL 223 This course is a survey of Irish literature from the fin de siecle to the present, including the later fiction of James Joyce and the later poetry of William Butler Yeats; the plays of Sean O'Casey, Brendan Behan, Samuel Beckett and Brian Friel; the poetry of Austin Clarke, Patrick Kavanagh, Thomas Kinsella, Eavan Boland and Seamus Heaney; the fiction of Sean O'Faolain, Roddy Doyle, Frank O'Connor, Flann O'Brien, Edna O'Brien, Emma Donoghue, Anne Enright and others.