2011_12
Educational guide 
Faculty or Arts
A A 
 
Cultural Studies in English Language. Texts and Contexts (2009)
 Subjects
  GENDER REPRESENTATIONS IN CONTEMPORARY IRISH WRITING
   Contents
Topic Sub-topic
Gender representation in Irish writing.
Critical awareness of the historical background to gender representation in Irish writing, focusing on the representation of woman as nation. Patriarchy, religion and society.
Strategies and techniques in the representation of gender in Irish writing by or on women. Formal strategies of Irish writers in terms of their use or representation of gender.
Questions of identity: gender and nation Irish patriarchy; storytelling as healing.
Coming-of-age and transgressive sexuality.
Contemporary developments in Irish society and culture. The artist and the gendered nation.
Gender of the Celtic Tiger.
Nationalism, aesthetics, and modernity
Contemprary Irish drama and the role of women. Experiemntal trends in contemporary Irish drama. A new scenario: transgressive gender representations.