CELTIC 187. Literature of the Dispossessed: Gaelic Ireland, c.1600-1900

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2022

An introduction to Irish Gaelic poetry and prose of the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, this course explores poets’ preoccupations and creative impulses in a time of regular conflict and drastic sociopolitical change. Critical issues we consider include, but are not limited to, the role(s) of the poet in society, tradition and innovation, orality, and intertextuality. All texts are available in English translation.