Return to search

A course portfolio, what is "Irishness?" : surveying Ireland's struggle to define a unified national identity, depicted in the country's literature from 1801-present / What is Irishness

The purpose of this creative project was to advance scholarship in areas suffering a lack of attention by Ball State University. Exploring a broader scope of Irish writing than most theses would cover, this project could easily be incorporated by other universities which share Ball State's departmental impotence with regard to Irish literary studies. I chose a time frame of two-hundred years to focus attention for this course.My directed readings from my project chairperson and my research at the Dublin Writers Museum led me to the design of this hypothetical course in contemporary Irish Literary Studies. I chose texts from 1801-Present which examine the varied cultural assumptions that various sects of the Irish citizenry hold, as depicted in their literature. What I found is that as time progresses, the emphasis toward violent preservation of cultural identity increases literally. This portfolio maps out those assumptions via Irish literature. / Department of English

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:BSU/oai:cardinalscholar.bsu.edu:handle/185479
Date January 1996
CreatorsMaxedon, Tom
ContributorsBall State University. Dept. of English., Onkey, Lauren E.
Source SetsBall State University
Detected LanguageEnglish
Format88 leaves ; 28 cm.
SourceVirtual Press
Coveragee-ie---

Page generated in 0.0135 seconds