Reading List
All Reading Lists from Faculty are divided as follows:
Week One, Week Two & Week Three, then subdivided into 2 sections:
**PRIMARY READING - relevant to the actual lecture, followed by *SECONDARY READINGS - a general research reading list.
Please note: All participants are expected to have read all the **PRIMARY READINGS in advance of the seminar. The *SECONDARY READINGS provide useful context and support materials, and participants are encouraged to read these. The O'Connell House Library will contain at least one copy of all major texts listed for the 2009 Seminar and these may be consulted by students, though demand is obviously likely to be heavy. Copies of all essential secondary readings, as specified by those offering seminars, will also be made available during the three weeks of the programme. Students should bring their own copies of essential texts with them. The Seminar will also help with information on and access to research libraries, including the provision of letters of introduction.
WEEK ONE
KEVIN WHELANLecture 1:
Heaney and History: North
**Primary Reading
Seamus Heaney, North (London, Faber & Faber, 1975)
**Secondary Reading
Dennis O’Driscoll, Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney (London: Faber & Faber, 2008)
Lecture 2: Friel and History: Translations
**Primary Readings
Brian Friel, Translations (London, Faber & Faber, 1981)
**Secondary Readings
Brian Friel, ‘Extracts from a sporadic diary’ in Tim Pat Coogan (ed.), Ireland and the arts: a special issue of the Literary Review (London, Literary Review, 1986) PDF
John Montague, ‘A primal Gaeltacht’ in The figure in the cave and other essays (Dublin, 1989), pp 42-4
Christopher Murray (ed.), Brian Friel: essays, diaries, interviews: 1964-1999 (London, Faber, 1999)
Lecture 3: Deane and History: Reading in the Dark
**Primary Readings
Seamus Deane, Reading in the Dark (London & New York, 1996)
**Secondary Readings
‘Unhappy and at home’, Seamus Deane interview with Seamus Heaney in Crane Bag, Volume 1, Number 1 (1977), pp 61-7
Interview with Seamus Deane in John Brown (ed.), In the Chair: interviews with poets from the North of Ireland (Galway, 2002) PDF
JOE CLEARY
Lecture 1: Elizabeth Bowen—The Big House and the End of Empire
**Primary Readings
Elizabeth Bowen, Bowen’s Court (1942) [Especially chapters i, vi and vii]
Elizabeth Bowen, The Last September (1929)
Elizabeth Bowen, "The Big House" (1940) PDF
*Secondary Reading
Maud Ellmann, Elizabeth Bowen: The Shadow Across the Page (Edinburgh UP, 2003) PDF
Vera Kreilkamp, Elizabeth Bowen:Ascendancy Modernist (2009)PDF
Lecture 2: Conor Cruise O’Brien—Empire, Enlightenment, and Apocalypse
**Primary Reading
Conor Cruise O’Brien, Camus (1970) PDF and States of Ireland (1972) PDF
*Secondary Readings
Conor Cruise O'Brien, The Manifesto of a Counter-Revolution (1968) PDF
Conor Cruise O’Brien, The Siege: The Saga of Israel and Zionism (1986)
Lecture 3: The Field Day Pamphlets—Modernism and Imperialism
**Primary Readings
Edward Said, ‘Yeats and Decolonization’ (Field Day Pamphlet, 1988); also in Said, Culture and Imperialism (1993), Section 3, Chapter 3 PDF
Fredric Jameson, ‘Modernism and Imperialism’ (Field Day Pamphlet, 1988); also in Jameson, The Modernist Papers (2007) PDF
Terry Eagleton, ‘Nationalism, Irony and Commitment’ (Field Day Pamphlet, 1988)PDF
Seamus Deane, ‘Heroic Styles: The Tradition of an Idea’ (Field Day Pamphlets, 1984), also in Claire Connolly, Theorizing Ireland (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) PDF
*Secondary Readings
James Smith, Terry Eagleton: A Critical Introduction (Polity Press, 2008)
Edward Said, “A Note on Modernism” in Culture and Imperialism (1993)
Lecture 4: Declan Kiberd, Pascal Casanova—From Postcolonialism to World Literature
**Primary Readings
Declan Kiberd, Inventing Ireland (1995) (Chapters 1, 2, 10, 17, 18, 19, 20, 26)
Pascale Casanova, The World Republic of Letters (2004), (Chapters 1 and 10) PDF
Lecture 5: Note: This seminar is now in Week 3
Francis Fukuyama, 'The End of History?' PDF
Joe Cleary, Turbulent Times or sound and Fury at the end of History? Fukuyama Twenty Years on (2008) PDF
BRÍONA NIC DHIARMADA
Lecture 1: Writing ‘Home’ in Contemporary Irish Language Poetry
** Primary Reading
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, The Fifty Minute Mermaid. Translated by Paul Muldoon (The Gallery Press, 2007) Cuimhne an Uisce/ The Memory of Water, The Mermaid in the Hospital, The Born Again Mermaid, I mBaile an tSleibhe, An Mhaighdean Mhara/ The Mermaid
Seamus Heaney, An Mhaighdean Mhara, Anahorish, Broagh
ELIZABETH BUTLER CULLINGFORD
Lecture 1: The Sense of a Protestant Ending: Only Children in Bowen, Johnston, and Trevor
**Primary Readings
Jennifer Johnston, How Many Miles to Babylon (Penguin, 1988)
William Trevor, The Story of Lucy Gault (Penguin, 2003)
Elizabeth Cullingford, "Something Else": Gendering Onliness in Elizabeth Bowen's Early Fiction (Summer, 2007)PDF
WEEK TWO
LAURA O'CONNORNOTE: The core text for all of Professor O'Connor's seminars is Peggy O’Brien (ed.), The Wake Forest Book of Irish Women’s Poetry 1967-2000 (Wake Forest UP, 1999). This edition is available only in the US. US students are strongly advised to acquire a copy before coming to Ireland, and Irish and other students are advised to acquire the volume by
internet purchase. The volume will be used during all seminars.
Lecture 1: Irish Feminist Poetics in an International Frame: Eavan Boland
**Primary Readings
Selections of Eavan Boland’s poetry from Peggy O’Brien, The Wake Forest Book of Irish Women’s Poetry, 1967-2000 (Wake Forest UP, 1999); The War Horse'; 'Mise Eire' 'Changing the Times'
“Comhrá: A conversation between Medbh McGuckian and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, edited, with a foreword and afterword, by Laura O’Connor” The Southern Review: Special Issue on Irish Poetry (Summer 1995), 581-614 PDF
Eavan Boland, Object Lessons: the Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time (Carcanet, 1995) chapters 6 & 8 PDF
Lecture 2: Without the Pronoun ‘I’: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
**Primary Reading
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin et al, selections from Peggy O’Brien, The Wake Forest Book of Irish Women’s Poetry, 1967-2000 (Wake Forest UP, 1999)
'Gloss, Clós, Glas' from The Girl Who Married the Reindeer.
Peggy O’Brien (ed.), The Wake Forest Book of Irish Women’s Poetry 1967-2000 (Wake Forest UP, 1999)
Lecture 3: Reproduction and Poetics: Medbh McGuckian
**Primary Reading
Medbh McGuckian et al, Selected Poems and selections from Peggy O’Brien, The Wake Forest Book of Irish Women’s Poetry, 1967-2000 (Wake Forest UP, 1999). PDF, 'Harem Trousers', 'The Dead are More Alive', Sympathetic Ink re The Dead are More Alive', 'Porcelain Bells'
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, The Water Horse (Gallery Press, 2000) PDF
'Comhrá' from The Southern Review.
Lecture 4: Issues of Translation: Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
**Primary Reading
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill et al, selections from Peggy O’Brien, The Wake Forest Book of Irish Women’s Poetry, 1967-2000 (Wake Forest UP, 1999)PDF
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, “A View from the Grave: Translation into English in Ireland,” Études Irlandaise, 31.2 (2006) 95-106. PDF, 'The Fairy Hitchhiker'
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, The Water Horse (Gallery Press, 1999 / Wake Forest 2000)PDF
Paul Muldoon, Mermaid Poems PDF
Medbh McGuckian, Banríon Snow Queens PDF
DECLAN KIBERD
Lecture 1: Yeats: Male Writers and the Female Voice I
**Primary Reading
W.B. Yeats, Words For Music Perhaps and Michael Robartes and the Dancer (Will be available as Xerox)
Lecture 2: Joyce: Male Writers and the Female Voice II
**Primary Reading
James Joyce, 'Naussica' and 'Penelope' sections of Ulysses
Lecture 3: " The Fate of Reading: McGahern and Friel"
**Primary Reading
John McGahern, The Collected Stories (1992)
John McGahern, They May Face the Rising Sun (Faber and Faber, 2001; published as By the Lake in the US)
Brian Friel, Dancing at Lughnasa (Faber and Faber, 1990)
BREANDÁN Ó BUACHALLA
Lecture 1: Land, Sovereignty and Governance
**Primary Reading
Mac Cana, P. Celtic Mythology (London, 1970), 85-95, 117-21
Herbert, M. ‘Society and Myth, c. 700-1300’, Field Day Anthology IV (Cork, 2002), 250-53
Lecture 2: The King-Hero
**Primary Reading
Ó Buachalla, B. ‘Aodh Eanghach and the Irish King-Hero’ in Sages, saints and storytellers (D. Ó Corráin, et al., Maynooth,1989), 200-32
Lecture 3: Ireland’s Consort
**Primary Reading
Nic Eoin, M. ‘Sovereignty and Politics, c. 1300-1900’, Field Day Anthology IV (Cork, 2002), 273-75
Ó Buachalla, B. ‘Irish Jacobite Poetry’, Irish Review 12, 1992, 40-49
Lecture 4: ‘This Injured Nation’
**Primary Reading
Ó Tuathaigh, G. ‘Gaelic Ireland, Popular Politics and Daniel O’Connell’, Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society’, 30, 1974, 21-34
LUKE GIBBONS
Lecture 1: From National to World Literature: History, Form and Irish Modernity
**Primary Reading
Katie Trumpener, Bardic Nationalism (Princeton University Press,
1994), Chs. 1, 3 (available Google books)
Pascale Casanova, The Irish Paradigm (available on Joe Cleary's reading list)
*Secondary Readings
Catherine Gallagher, 'The Potato in the Materialist Imagination' in Catherine Gallagher & Stephen Greenblatt (eds.), Practising New Historicism (2000)
David Lloyd, 'The Political Economy of the Potato' in Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Vol. 29, Nos. 2–3, June/ September 2007, (also in Keith Hanley & Greg Kucich (eds.), Nineteenth-century Worlds: Global Formations Past and Present (2008)
Lecture 2:
Form as Utopian Gesture: The Proto-Modernity of Irish Romanticism
**Primary Reading
Luke Gibbons, 'Romantic Ireland, 1750-1845' in James Chandler (ed.), Cambridge History of Romantic Literature (forthcoming, 2009)PDF
Luke Gibbons, 'Mourn! And Then Outward'PDF
*Secondary Readings
Emer Nolan, Introduction, Thomas Moore, Memoirs of Captain Rock (2008)
Marjorie Levinson, 'Insight and Oversight: reading “Tintern Abbey”’ in Wordsworth's Great Period Poems (Cambridge, 1987)
Lecture 3: Dublin Dialogues: Ulysses, The City and Inner Speech
**Primary Reading
Caryl Emerson 'The Outer Word and Inner Speech: Bakhtin, Vygotsky and the Internalization of Language' in Gary Morson (ed.), Bakhtin: Essays and Dialogues on his Work (University of Chicago Press, 1986)PDF
James Joyce, Ulysses, Penelope
*Secondary Readings
Jeremy Hawthorn, ‘Ulysses, Modernism and Marxist Criticism’ in W.J. McCormack & Alistair Stead (eds.), James Joyce and Modern Literature (1982)
Lev Vygotsky, Thought and Language (MIT Press, 1986), Ch. 7
Lecture 4: Many Unhappy Returns: James Joyce and Phantoms of the Future
**Primary Reading
David Lloyd. ‘The Medieval Sill: Postcolonial Temporalities in Joyce' in David Lloyd, Irish Times: Temporalities of Modernity (Field Day, 2008) PDF
James Joyce, Ulysses, Lestrygonians; Eumaeus
*Secondary Readings
Nicholas Abraham & Maria Torok, The Shell and the Kernel: Renewals of Psychoanalysis (1994), Chs. 3-9
Luke Gibbons, ‘ “Ghostly Light”: Spectres of Modernity in James Joyce’s and John Huston’s “The Dead” ‘ in Richard Brown (ed.), Blackwell Companion to James Joyce (Blackwell, 2007)
Lecture 5: From Residual to Emergent: Raymond Williams, Postcolonialism and Celtic Modernism
**Primary Reading
Raymond Williams, The Politics of Modernism (1989), Chs. 1, 2 PDF
*Secondary Readings
Raymond Williams, Marxism and Literature (1977), II, 7-9 PDF
Daniel Williams, introduction’ to Raymond Williams, Who Speaks for Wales (Cardiff, 2004)
Luke Gibbons, ‘Review of Jonathan Lear, Radical Hope’ in Field Day Review, 4, 2008
Tim Armstrong, 'Modernism's Others: Race ad Empire' in Modernism (Polity, 2005) PDF
WEEK THREE
KATARZYNA BARTOSZYNSCALecture 1: Utopian Ironies: Readings in Swift and Krasicki
**Primary Readings
Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels. (Penguin Classics, 2003)
(any edition)
Krasicki, Ignacy. Adventures of Mr Nicholas Wisdom. Translated by Thomas
Hoisington (Northwestern University Press, 1992) PDF
*Secondary Readings:
Jameson, Fredric. The Politics of Utopia. New Left Review 25 (Jan, Feb, 2004)
Earls, Brian. By Reason of Past History: Poland Through Irish Eyes. (Dublin
Review of Books, Winter 2008) PDF
JASON KING
Lecture 1: Remembering Famine Orphans: Catastrophe and Mobility
** Primary Readings
Maguire, John Francis. The Irish in America. 1868. Reprint. New York: Arno Press, 1969 (Chapter 8) http://www.libraryireland.com/articles/MaguireIrishAmerica8/index.php
Jim Jackson's article, 'Famine Diary -- The Making of a Best Sellar'. Irish Review, (no. 11, winter 1991/92), pp. 1-8 PDF