Syllabus
The syllabus of the course is based on the students' selection of 5 books from the following list:
Ian McEwan: Black Dogs (1992), Amsterdam (1998), Saturday (2005), On Chesil Beach (2007), Solar (2010)
Jeanette Winterson: Written on the Body (1992), Art and Lies (1994)
Martin Amis: Time’s Arrow (1991), House of Meetings (2007)
Peter Ackroyd: The House of Doctor Dee (1993), Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem (1994), The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein (2008)
Kazuo Ishiguro: When We Were Orphans (2000), Never Let Me Go (2005)
Graham Swift: Last Orders (1996), The Light of Day (2003), Tomorrow (2007)
Julian Barnes: England, England (1998), Arthur & George (2005), The Sense of an Ending (2011)
Hanif Kureishi: The Buddha of Suburbia (1990), Something to Tell You (2008)
Zadie Smith: White Teeth (2000), On Beauty (2005)
Angela Carter: Wise Children (1991)
Monica Ali: Brick Lane (2003)
Jim Crace: Arcadia (1992), Being Dead (1999), The Pesthouse (2007)
Will Self: How the Dead Live (2000), Dorian (2002)
John Banville: The Sea (2005)
Adam Thirlwell: Politics (2003)
Alan Hollinghurst: The Line of Beauty (2004)
Simon Mawer: The Glass Room (2009)
David Lodge: Deaf Sentence (2008)
Annotation
This seminar is based on the presentation of and the consequent discussion, analysis and interpretations of, selected works of contemporary British novelists, focused on theoretical and thematic points of departure which illustrate the plurality of contemporary fiction: e.g. post-nationalism, Millenium Angst or queer literature, metafiction, historiographic metafiction, parody and pastiche, intertextuality, genre mixture and others.