Syllabus
The syllabus of the course is based on the students' selection of 5 or 6 books from the following list: 1910s & 1920s
G.B. Shaw: Pygmalion
Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse
D.H. Lawrence: Lady Chatterley’s Lover 1930s & 1940s
Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
Christopher Isherwood: Goodbye to Berlin
George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four 1950s
Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot; Endgame
Kingsley Amis: Lucky Jim
William Golding: Lord of the Flies
Graham Greene: The End of the Affair
John Osborne: Look Back in Anger
Iris Murdoch: Under the Net
Alan Sillitoe: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 1960s
John Fowles: The Collector
Anthony Burgess: Nothing Like the Sun
Harold Pinter: Homecoming
Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
B.S. Johnson: The Unfortunates 1970s
David Lodge: Changing Places
Ian McEwan: The Cement Garden
Angela Carter: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories 1980s
Peter Ackroyd: Hawksmoor
Jeanette Winterson: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Kazuo Ishiguro: An Artist of the Floating World
Martin Amis: London Fields
Julian Barnes: A History of the World in 101/2 Chapters
Annotation
Course requirements: regular attendance, active participation, and production of an essay (1000 words).
This course focuses on 20th century British fiction and drama from 1900 to the 1980s. The seminars are organized on the basis of analysis, understanding and evaluation of a selection of texts which are not included in the 20th century British
Literature syllabus. Students are also provided essential historical, social, political and cultural context of the selected texts. The key authors are Shaw, Forster, Woolf, Huxley, Orwell, Beckett, Kingsley Amis, Golding, Murdoch, Pinter, Lodge, Carter, Martin Amis, Winterson, Ishiguro, Stoppard and Barnes.