LIT 5185 - Spring 2026 - Gontarski

Spring
2026
LIT 5185
Studies in Irish Literature: Those Inscrutable, Intractable, Rebellious Irish Modernists, James Joyce, Flann O’Brien, Samuel Beckett, and Enda Walsh
S. E. Gontarski

While British writers pulled back from the experimentalism of Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury group, Irish writers redefined Modernist experimental writing throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first centuries in a reshaped language all their own, Hiberno-English, in what Giles Deleuze would call “Minor Literature.” This course explores such issues through some of the most exciting literature in English of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Requirements: This course satisfies the requirement for coursework in the following Areas of Concentration: Critical Theory and Post-1900 Literary and Cultural Studies; a Literary Genre (Fiction).