1. ACHETYPAL STORY REFASHIONING

Andrew Lang: The Blue Fairy Book: “Beauty and the Beast” (1889) + Angela Carter: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories: “The Courtship of Mr Lyon” (1979)

FOCUS: fairy tale, postmodernist refashioning of archetypal story

2. POSTCOLONIAL DEFAMILIARISATION

Nadine Gordimer: “Once Upon a Time” (1989) + “The Ultimate Safari” (1989) from Jump and Other Stories (1991)

FOCUS: Postcolonial literature, irony, defamiliarisation

3. HISTORY AND HIS STORY

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: “A Private Experience” (2008) + “The Headstrong Historian” (2008)

FOCUS: HISTORY vs. HIS STORY

4. TRADITION VS. MODERNITY

Anita Desai: “Studies in the Park” (1978) + Witi Ihimaera: “The Whale” (1972)

Focus: tradition and modernity

5. ROMANCE ALTERATION

Tennessee Williams: “The Field of Blue Children” (1937) + Kurt Vonnegut: “Runaways” (1961)

Focus: Romance as generic writing formula (cliché)

6. AMBIGUOUS NARRATIVE PERSPECTIVE

Ambrose Bierce: “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” (1890)

Focus: ambiguous narrative perspective

7. LITERARY MINIMALISM

Ernest Hemingway: “Hills Like White Elephants” (1927) + Henry Lawson: “The Drover’s Wife” (1896)

Focus: literary minimalism

8. THE CONCRETE CHARACTER OF POETIC LANGUAGE

Sylvia Plath, Elisabeth Bishop, Philip Larkin: selected poems

Focus: the concrete character of poetic language

9. COMPLEX SIMPLICITY

ee cummings, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost: selected poems

Focus: complex simplicity

10. SPACE AND IDENTITY

Doris Lessing: “To Room Nineteen” (1963) and Fay Weldon: “Weekend” (1978, 2009)

Focus: space and identity