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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”.

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