HENA01105U English - Elective 2: Theme in British Studies A: Modern and Contemporary British Writing

Volume 2014/2015
Content

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, students will be introduced, through a combination of close-reading and theoretical-approaches, to British literature as discipline and institution, and to British literary perspective on issues of identity (gender, class, race/ethnicity, nationality, etc.); genre; modernity / postmodernity, etc.

  • Category
  • Hours
  • Lectures
  • 42
  • Preparation
  • 162,75
  • Total
  • 204,75
Credit
7,5 ECTS
Type of assessment
Other
Criteria for exam assesment