Instr: José Lanters
Office: CRT 489; 229-4799
e-mail: lanters@uwm.edu
Office hours: TBA
Course Information: T 3:30pm - 6:10pm; MIT B14
Irish literature is as rich and varied as the country's history. Irishness, however, is not an innate quality, but a cultural and political construct that is constantly re-invented. Beginning with the earliest extant poems and legends (translated from the Irish), and moving via the Anglo-Irish period of the eighteenth and nineteenth century and the Irish Literary Revival of the early twentieth century to a more urban and cosmopolitan contemporary perspective, this course offers an introduction to Irish writing and an exploration of several varieties of Irishness as they are expressed through the literature.
