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new relativity also informed the various new subcultures, the different <strong>st</strong>yles of<br />
consumerism and pop culture.<br />
The aim of the lecture course is to give a survey of British po<strong>st</strong>-war culture and its<br />
different <strong>st</strong>ages of po<strong>st</strong>-modernisms – from the beginnings of the affluent society up<br />
to New Labour's "Cool Britannia". By means of the framework of po<strong>st</strong>modernism it<br />
will try to analyse diverse cultural phenomena such as Magic Realism and metahi<strong>st</strong>oric<br />
novels, Beatlemania, James Bond or the Royal Family.<br />
Requirement for credit points: regular attendance, contributions on Blackboard and<br />
written te<strong>st</strong> at the end of the seme<strong>st</strong>er.<br />
Seminare<br />
050 660 Berg<br />
Society, Culture, and Politics in Ireland, 4 CP<br />
2 <strong>st</strong>. fr 10-12 GABF 04/614 Süd<br />
Speciali<strong>st</strong>s in Irish Studies argue that there are not only two Irelands in a<br />
geographical and political sense, the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland, but also<br />
several Irelands which succeeded each other in hi<strong>st</strong>ory. There was Ireland, the fir<strong>st</strong><br />
British colony, exploited and oppressed by England/Britain. There was po<strong>st</strong>colonial<br />
Ireland, <strong>st</strong>ill relying on the UK economically and to a certain extent politically, and all<br />
the more eager to prove its difference in terms of identity, culture, and religion. In the<br />
1980s and 1990s, a new Ireland came into being, suddenly rich, increasingly secular,<br />
and considered to be one of the ‘mo<strong>st</strong> glo<<strong>st</strong>rong>ba</<strong>st</strong>rong>lised’ countries in the world. Today, also<br />
the Celtic Tiger phenomenon (as the rapid period of growth and change has been<br />
called) is a thing of the pa<strong>st</strong>. In<strong>st</strong>ead, traditional patterns of poverty and emigration<br />
seem to reappear.<br />
In this course, we will discuss how these transformations came about, how much of<br />
the older Irelands can <strong>st</strong>ill be found in the newer ones, and how changes in the<br />
cultural, political, social, and economic spheres interacted in the different phases of<br />
modern and contemporary Irish hi<strong>st</strong>ory.<br />
A reader with key texts will be provided.<br />
Requirement for credit points: active participation, organising and chairing part of a<br />
course session, research paper (Hausarbeit).<br />
To be able to attend, <strong>st</strong>udents need to have passed the “Introduction to Cultural<br />
Studies”.