HENK03910U English - Free topic 12: Modern and Contemporary British writing (exam form A,B,C)
This course offers a survey of British literature across a range of genres (poetry, drama, fiction) from the 1950s until the present day. As well as developing familiarity with the major currents of British writing in this period, you will be introduced, through a combination of close-reading and theoretical approaches, to British literature as discipline and institution, and to British literary perspectives on issues of identity (gender, class, race/ethnicity, nationality, etc.); genre, modernity / postmodernity, and so on.
The books you need to buy for this course, in the order that we will study them, are:
Michael Morpurgo, Warhorse (1982)
Jez Butterworth, Jerusalem (2009)
Ian McEwan, Atonement (2001)
Michael Frayn, Copenhagen (1998)
Monica Ali, Brick Lane (2003)
Martin Amis, London Fields (1989)
Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending (2011)
Copies of each should be available in the bookshop and you can also acquire them from various online retailers. Other reading material will be made available via Absalon and in class. For a very useful introduction to some of the ideas in critical theory that we will be discussing on the course, you could take a look at the latest edition of Peter Barry's excellent Beginning Theory.
- Category
- Hours
- Lectures
- 28
- Preparation
- 176,75
- Total
- 204,75
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Other
Criteria for exam assesment
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- HENK03910U
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Level
- Full Degree MasterFull Degree Master choice
- Duration
- 1 semester
- Placement
- Spring
- Schedule
- See link to schedule
- Study board
- Study board of English, Germanic and Romance Studies
Contracting department
- Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies
Course responsibles
- Cian Joseph Duffy (6-6c69803b3d39466e7b7334717b346a71)