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Irish Storytelling
CELT E-113
Irish Storytelling (22920)
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Kathryn Ann Chadbourne, PhD.
Course tuition: noncredit $450, undergraduate credit $800, graduate credit $1,725.
Spring term:
Wednesdays beginning Jan. 28, 7:35-9:35 pm, Sever Hall, Room 307.
This course explores the world of traditional Irish storytelling in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing on context, storytellers, community, collectors, collections, and of course, the stories themselves. Storytellers' biographies, ethnography, proverbs, and live performance give breadth and contour to our understanding of the stories and the world in which they were and are told. Questions of genre, evaluation, gender, nationalism, and identity are also considered. (4 credits)