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ENG 497 Senior Seminar: Literary Geography of Ireland

Parents, relatives, and friends of students and chaperones, here is all the information, associated web pages, and photos of this year's 497 Senior Seminar:  Literary Geography of Ireland.  As you are no doubt aware, this class will be the second in our biennial Study Abroad Senior Seminar taught and hosted by Professor John Loftis.  First, here is the reading list for the course itself:

Readings for ENG 497, Literary Geography of Ireland:
Film: The Commitment
Film:  The Field
Selections from the Tain Bo Cuailnge (reserve)
Edmund Spenser, Report on the state of Ireland, selections (reserve)
Jonathan Swift, review Gulliver's Travels, "Modest Proposal,” Letter to Shopkeepers, etc . . .” (Woods), “A Short View of the State of Ireland,” selected poems
Oliver Goldsmith, “She Stoops to Conquer”; “The Deserted Village”
Oscar Wilde, Picture of Dorian Gray
J.M. Synge, “Riders to the Sea” and Playboy of the Western World
W. B. Yeats, selected poems
James Joyce, Dubliners
Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes
Seamus Heaney, selected poems

Secondary Readings:
Thomas Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization
Ian Ousby, "Literary shrines and literary pilgrims: the writer as tourist attraction," ch. 1  of The Englishman's England, 21-57. (reserve)
Dierdre Evans-Pritchard, "The Portal Case: Authenticity, Tourism, Traditions, and the Law," in Folk Groups and Folklore Genres: A Reader, ed. Richard Handler and Jocelyn Linnekin, 43- 51.(reserve)
Dean MacCannell, "Sightseeing and Social Structure," ch 2, The Tourist: A new theory of the leisure class, 39-56.(reserve)
Article from recent Denver Post—personal account of visit to Bethlehem.(photocopy on reserve)

Flight Information:

Hotel Information: 

Below is a map of Ireland. Click on the relevant area of Ireland for photos of our intrepid literary travelers. (Dublin, Sligo, Galway, Aran Islands (Inishmore, the largest island), and Limerick)

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