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Vyučující
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Marková Michaela, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Obsah předmětu
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This course introduces the island of Ireland through an interdisciplinary lens, combining historical, political, cultural, linguistic, literary, and ethnographic perspectives. Across the semester, students study how Irish and Northern Irish identities have been formed, contested, and represented, and how Ireland's experience is shaped both by its emergence as an independent nation and by its position within British and global history. Key themes and topics include: Ireland(s) and identity: competing definitions of Irishness and Northern Irishness; nation vs island vs diaspora; belonging, exclusion, and plural identities. Language and power: the relationship between Gaeilge and English (and Ulster Scots where relevant); language shift and revival; translation; place-names and linguistic landscapes as political and cultural markers. Colonial legacies and social structures: Plantation and Ascendancy histories; land, religion, class, and institutional power; how these legacies shape modern political and cultural life. Catastrophe, migration, and memory: the Famine and its representations; emigration and diaspora; commemoration and contested historical narratives. Cultural nationalism and the Revival: myth, folklore, theatre, and print culture as tools of nation-making; debates about authenticity and cultural authority. Modernity and the literary city: Irish modernism and the everyday as social history, especially through Joyce's Dublin; the relationship between realism, modernist experiment, and social critique. The independent state and cultural regulation: moral authority, respectability, censorship, and the role of Church and state; gender and sexuality as fault-lines in national life (with attention to Edna O'Brien and other counter-narratives). Class, land, and minority positions: Anglo-Irish identities and "Big House" culture; decline, ambiguity, and historical haunting (e.g., Bowen). Northern Ireland and divided society: partition and its social geography; everyday division; civil rights and the Troubles; the ethics of representation in conflict writing (notably Heaney and other Northern poets). Peace process and post-conflict culture: reconciliation, victims and memory, institutional arrangements, and the cultural work of peace; applying concepts from Northern Ireland to comparative discussions of other divided societies. Contemporary and global Ireland: globalization, migration, inequality, shifting social norms, and the remaking of Irish identity in late 20th- and 21st-century contexts (including McGahern and later writing).
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Studijní aktivity a metody výuky
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nespecifikováno
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Výstupy z učení
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Předmět nabízí studentům příležitost studovat historii, politiku, kulturu, literaturu a jazyk Irského ostrova. Studenti budou zkoumat irskou a severoirskou identitu a společnost z mnoha hledisek, včetně historických, lingvistických, politických, literárních a etnografických. Zdůrazněna je zejména role Irska jako vznikajícího nezávislého národa, stejně jako součásti širší matice britské a globální historie. Důraz je kladen i na mimořádný přínos anglicky psané literatuře u spisovatelů jako jsou například Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, Beckett, Bowen, McGahern, Heaney či Edna O?Brien. Studenti mají též příležitost hloubkového studia ?problémů? Severního Irska a získat tak informace, které lze z mírového procesu v regionu aplikovat na rozdělené společnosti po celém světě.
Students completing this course should be able to: Identify and explain key developments in the history, politics, culture, and language of the island of Ireland, including the emergence of the Irish state and the impact of partition. Analyse Irish and Northern Irish identities and social realities using multiple approaches (historical, linguistic, political, literary, and ethnographic). Perform close readings of major Irish writing in English and relate textual form, voice, and genre to cultural and political contexts. Recognise and evaluate the significance of major writers such as Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, Beckett, Bowen, McGahern, Heaney, and Edna O'Brien within Irish, British, and global literary histories. Assess representations of conflict and reconciliation in Northern Irish culture and apply key concepts from the peace process to comparative discussions of divided societies. Communicate clearly in discussion and writing, developing evidence-based interpretations that integrate primary texts with contextual sources.
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Předpoklady
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nespecifikováno
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Hodnoticí metody a kritéria
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nespecifikováno
Preparation and participation: Attend seminars regularly and come prepared, having completed the required reading/viewing. Contribute to seminar discussion and complete in-class activities (close-reading tasks, group work, short presentations). Weekly/biweekly reading responses: Short written responses to the primary texts (typically 8-10 submissions over the semester; approx. 300-500 words each or structured close-reading notes). Seminar discussion facilitation (once): Co-lead one seminar discussion with a short handout and a set of discussion questions. Close-reading assignment (in preparation for the final assessment essay): A short analytical paper focused on a single poem/scene/passage (approx. 3-4 pages), emphasizing textual analysis and argument. Final essay: A final paper (approx. 5-8 pages) integrating primary texts with scholarly sources. Includes a proposal and annotated bibliography submitted earlier in the semester. Academic integrity and referencing: All work submitted for assessment must be your own and must comply with university rules on academic integrity. You are expected to demonstrate independent reading, thinking, and writing, and to acknowledge all sources used. AI tools (including ChatGPT and similar systems) may be used only for early-stage support, such as: brainstorming possible essay questions or angles, generating discussion questions, outlining your own argument plan, identifying key themes to look for while reading, suggesting search terms for finding scholarly sources. AI tools may not be used to produce any part of assessed written work. This means you may not use AI to: write or rewrite paragraphs, sentences, introductions, conclusions, or transitions, paraphrase, "polish," or copy-edit your prose, generate thesis statements that you adopt verbatim, produce close readings, interpretations, or comparative analyses that you submit as your own, create summaries of assigned readings that you submit for credit, generate citations, bibliographies, or references in place of your own checking of sources.
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Doporučená literatura
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Falci, Eric; Reynolds, Paige. Irish literature in transition: 1980-2020. 2020.
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Fox, Renée Allyson; Ó Conchubhair, Brian; Cronin, Mike. Routledge international handbook of Irish studies. 2021. ISBN 978-0-367-25913-6.
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Maher, Eamon; O'Brien, Eugene. Reimagining Irish studies for the twenty-first century. 2021. ISBN 9781800791916.
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