COD 2026 - D1229
Webinar - Reading and Media Breakfasts: Extracts from Paul Lynch's Grace and Prophet Song: Radiance in the Ruins
Literature enthusiasts, educators, and creative writers interested in contemporary poetry and prose
1
sessions, start: 22-Aug
Please enrol before Wednesday, August 19th 2026
Course detail
Year: 2026
Level: Distance
Language: English
Status: Announced
Lugar: Distance
Facilitator/s: Mr. Luciano Camio
ESSARP Schools
Free of charge
Free of charge
Exams Schools
ARS 60000.00
ARS 60000.00
Non affiliate
ARS 60000.00
ARS 60000.00
Sessions
| Sessions | Dates | Start | Finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 22 August 2026 | 10:00 am | 11:30 am |
Facilitator/s
Luciano Camio
Literature enthusiasts, educators, and creative writers interested in contemporary poetry and prose
By the end of the session, participants will be able to:
Identify recurring thematic threads across Lynch’s fiction, including collapse and survival, displacement and memory, and lyricism.
Analyse stylistic features of Lynch’s prose, and understand how these shape readers’ emotional engagement.
Compare extracts from Grace, and Prophet Song to examine how form reinforces crisis and meaning.
Situate Lynch within the Irish literary continuum, linking his work to famine narratives, modern political fiction, and contemporary Irish prose traditions.
Evaluate how Lynch’s style blurs boundaries between historical realism, political fiction, dystopian imagination, and modern epic.
Identify recurring thematic threads across Lynch’s fiction, including collapse and survival, displacement and memory, and lyricism.
Analyse stylistic features of Lynch’s prose, and understand how these shape readers’ emotional engagement.
Compare extracts from Grace, and Prophet Song to examine how form reinforces crisis and meaning.
Situate Lynch within the Irish literary continuum, linking his work to famine narratives, modern political fiction, and contemporary Irish prose traditions.
Evaluate how Lynch’s style blurs boundaries between historical realism, political fiction, dystopian imagination, and modern epic.
Introduction to Paul Lynch as a contemporary Irish literary voice.
Major themes: ruin and radiance, crisis, collapse, survival; memory, displacement, exile. “Mythic resonance” and lyrical intensity.
Stylistic analysis: syntax, rhythm, sensory detail, cadence.
The tension between historical realism and imaginative reconstruction.
Comparative reading of extracts from Grace, and Prophet Song.
Lynch’s place in Irish literary history.
Major themes: ruin and radiance, crisis, collapse, survival; memory, displacement, exile. “Mythic resonance” and lyrical intensity.
Stylistic analysis: syntax, rhythm, sensory detail, cadence.
The tension between historical realism and imaginative reconstruction.
Comparative reading of extracts from Grace, and Prophet Song.
Lynch’s place in Irish literary history.
Individual and collaborative close reading of selected passages with attention to style, rhythm, and imagery.
Group thematic mapping across two supposedly disconnected novels.
Comparative analysis through guided discussion.
Short analytical writing tasks exploring Lynch’s narrative techniques.
Reflective conversation on reading contemporary Irish literature through crisis and renewal.
Group thematic mapping across two supposedly disconnected novels.
Comparative analysis through guided discussion.
Short analytical writing tasks exploring Lynch’s narrative techniques.
Reflective conversation on reading contemporary Irish literature through crisis and renewal.