ENGL 260Irish Literature
- Faculty
- Arts
- Last listed
- Spring 2024
No longer offered. It was in Waterloo’s course catalog since at least Winter 2020 (as far back as Open Data goes) to Spring 2024 and last ran in Winter 2022. It isn’t in the 2024–25 or later calendars.
When it ran
- W22
Ran in 1 term, Winter 2022 to Winter 2022.
A study of modern and contemporary Irish literature in English. This course will introduce students to a range of Irish writing in its often turbulent historical and cultural context. The international dimensions of Irish writers and their work will be explored.
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- Undergraduate Calendar, 2023–24Its last calendar entry, on ucalendar
- Course outlinesSyllabi from past terms (UW login)
- UW FlowStudent ratings and reviews
- WClassesPast sections back to 2004, and who taught them
In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1963–64 to 1970–71, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1970–71 1 calendar
Not in the 1965–66 to 1969–70 calendars.
1963–64 to 1964–65 2 calendars
Titled Old English.
An introduction to Anglo-Saxon language and literature in their historical context, with special attention to the development of the language.
Texts: Alston, An Introduction to Old English; Wyatt, Anglo-Saxon Reader. 2 lectures.
270, Middle English, with Special Emphasis on Chaucer. A study of Middle English literature, partly in translation and partly in the original, with special emphasis on the works of Chaucer, which will be read in the original.
Department of English
Texts: Chaucer, Works, ed. Robinson; Dickins & Wilson, Early Middle English Texts; Sisam, Fourteenth Century Verse & Prose; The Lay of Havelok the Dane, ed. Skeat & Sisam; Langland (?), Piers Plowman, ed. Skeat; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (in translation).
3 lectures.