30649 - English Literature 2 (2nd cycle)

Course contents

A Door into the Dark'? Irish novel at the turn of the century

Readings/Bibliography

1

Edna O'Brien, The Country Girls, 1960 *

Roddy Doyle, The Commitments, 1989 **

 

2

John Banville, The Newton Letter, 1982***

Dermot Bolger, The Journey Home, 1990***

John McGahern, Amongst Women, 1990 **

Joseph O'Connor, Cowboys and Indians, 1991***

Eugene McCabe, Death and Nightingales, 1992***

Patrick Mc Cabe, The Butcher Boy, 1992 **

Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, 1993 *

Neil Jordan, Sunrise with Sea Monster, 1994

Eoin McNamee, Resurrection Man, 1994 ***

Seamus Deane, Reading in the Dark, 1996

Roddy Doyle, The Woman Who Walked into Doors, 1996 **

Robert McLiam Wilson, Eureka Street, 1996**

Catherine Dunne, In the Beginning, 1997***

 

* LILEC Library

** Sala Borsa Library (in English)

*** Sala Borsa  Library (in Italian)

 

3a

Roberta Gefter Wondrich, “Romanzo del Sud”, in Renzo S. Crivelli, a cura di, La letteratura irlandese contemporanea, Roma, Carocci, 2007, pp. 25-65

Joseph O’Connor, “The Write Stuff: Irish Writers and Writing”, in The Secret World of the Irish Male, London, Minerva, 1995, pp. 134-159

Laura Pelaschiar, “Romanzo del Nord”, in Renzo S. Crivelli, a cura di, La letteratura irlandese contemporanea, Roma, Carocci, 2007, pp. 67-107*

Linden Peach, “Interruptive Narratives”, in The Contemporary Irish Novel, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, pp. 1-21

Gino Scatasta, “Letteratura irlandese: il romanzo”, in L'informazione bibliografica, XXVII, 1, gennaio-marzo 2001, pp. 57-67

Gerry Smyth, The Novel and the Nation. Studies in the New Irish Fiction, London, Pluto Press, 1997, pp. 11-32

 

3b

On Roddy Doyle and Edna O’Brien

Brian Donnelly, “Roddy Doyle: From Barrytown to the GPO”, in Irish University Review, vol. 30, Spring/Summer 2000, n. 1, pp. 17-31

Fiorenzo Fantaccini, “Forme e gerghi della metropoli: The Commitmentsdi Roddy Doyle", in De Petris Carla e Stella Maria, a a cura di, Continente Irlanda, Roma, Carocci, 2001, pp. 97-118

Lauren Onkey, “Celtic Soul Brothers”, in Eire-Ireland, vol 28, Autumn 1993, 3, pp. 147-158

Timothy D. Taylor, “Living in a Postcolonial World: Class and Soul in The Commitments”, in Irish Studies Review, vol. 6, 1998, 3, pp. 291-302

Julia Carlson, “Edna O’Brien", in Banned in Ireland, London, Routledge, 1990, pp. 71-79

 

3c

On the novel of the list 2

Liam Harte, “A Kind of Scab: Irish Identity in the Writings of Dermot Bolger and Joseph O’Connor”, in Irish Studies Review, 20, Autumn 1997, pp. 17-21

Liam Harte, “History Lessons: Postcolonialism and Seamus Deane’s Reading in the Dark”, in Irish University Review, vol. 30, Spring/Summer 2000, n. 1, pp. 149-162

Ferdia Mac Anna, “The Dublin Renaissance: An essay on modern Dublin and Dublin writers”, in The Irish Review, 10, Spring 1991, pp. 14-30 (su Doyle e Bolger)

Conor McCarthy, “Ideology and Geography in Dermot Bolger’s The Journey Home”, in Irish University Review, vol. 27, Spring/Summer 1997, n. 9, pp. 98-110

Dermot McCarthy, “Belfast Babel: Postmodern Lingo in Eoin McNamee’s Resurrection Man”, in Irish University Review, vol. 30, Spring/Summer 2000, n. 1, pp. 132-148

Richard Mills, “All Stories are Love Stories” in Irish Studies Review, vol. 7, 1999, 1, pp. 73-77 (intervista a McLiam Wilson)

Stephen Regan, “Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane”, in Irish Studies Review, 19, Summer 1997, pp. 35-40

John Scaggs, “Who is Francie Pig? Self-Identity and Narrative Reliability in The Butcher Boy”, in Irish University Review, vol. 30, Spring/Summer 2000, n. 1, pp. 51-58

Hedwig Schwall, “Fictions about Factions: An Analysis of Neil Jordan's Sunrise with Sea Monster”, in Nordic Irish Studies, vol. 1, 2002, pp. 31-50

Eamon Wall, “The Living Stream: John McGahern's "Amongst Women" and Irish Writing in the 1990s”, in Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, vol. 88, Autumn 1999, n. 351, pp. 305-314

Clare Wallace, “Running Amuck: Manic Logic in Patrick McCabe’s The Butcher Boy”, in Irish Studies Review, vol. 6, 1998, n. 2, pp. 157-163

 

Students must read the two novels of the list 1, two novels of the list 2 and the critical essays of the list 3a and 3b. In the list 3c, they will read the essays concerning the novels chosen in the list 2

* Biblioteca LILEC

** Biblioteca Sala Borsa

*** Sala Borsa (in italian)

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