Global Irish Lit

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This course will introduce you to some of most famous authors of the early twentieth-century Irish literature – James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, and Samuel Beckett – who later became renowned writers and global ambassadors of Ireland and Irishness. We will read a selection of their works and study the way in which these texts have been received, circulated and consumed around the world. In the second half of the course, we will study famous contemporary Irish authors who, in turn, have set their novels outside the nation-space of Irish literature.