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Welcomes, logistical explanations, and a few warm-up exercises. |
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James Joyce, "The Dead." Not to pre-empt the lead-off persons here, but two questions that nag at me about this story are, "To whom precisely does the title refer?" and "Can this marriage be saved?" |
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James Joyce, "The Dead." (cont.) |
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William Butler Yeats |
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William Butler Yeats (cont.) |
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Samuel Beckett |
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Recently an enterprising group undertook the filming of all of Beckett's stage works. The Literature Section film office owns the set, and we'll take a look at a few of Smiling Sammy's shorter works today. |
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Edna O'Brien |
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William Trevor |
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Mary Lavin |
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John McGahern |
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Mary Dorcey
Mary Morrissey |
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Roddy Doyle
Sara Berkeley |
First paper due |
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Brian Friel |
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Brian Friel (cont.) |
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Seamus Heaney |
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Seamus Heaney (cont.) |
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John Montague |
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John Montague (cont.) |
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Eavan Boland
Nuala ni Dhomhnaill
Paula Meehan |
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Marina Carr |
Second paper due |
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Discussion of poetry from The White Page. The lead-off people will have the power / responsibility to select the poem we attend to on that day, and given time others may bring forward their choices. |
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The White Page Discussions (cont.) |
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The White Page Discussions (cont.) |
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The White Page Discussions (cont.) |
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Final Lecture |
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