Reading lists
Irish Literature: Yeats
Studies of 20th century Irish literature with emphasis on drama and poetry. Focus on W.B. Yeats and other Irish poets and dramatists.
Critical Methods
The topics and techniques of literary analysis, applied to English and American poetry, prose fiction, and drama. Attention to stylistic and structural analysis, narratology, and critical theory applied to specific literary texts.
American Drama
19th-century melodrama and the emergence of realism; works by O’Neill and other dramatists of the early 20th century