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British Literature - Post World War II (Theory)
The Course will enable the students to identify the cultural and literary characteristics of the period, in contemporary British literature and discuss the contemporary reaction to traditional literary and cultural structures and concepts.
The students will:
CO61.Examine the experimentation in narrative, poetic and dramatic forms
CO62.Criticallyappreciate representative Post WW II writers
CO63.Estimate the influence of historical, political and socio- cultural movements
CO64.Formulate a close analysis of representative contemporary literary texts of Post WW II era
CO65.Develop skills to compare and contrast themes, techniques and skills used by poets, dramatists and novelists
CO66.Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction.
John Fowles
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Jeanette Winterson
Sexing the Cherry
Hanif Kureishi
My Beautiful Launderette
Phillip Larkin
Whitsun Weddings
Church Going
Toads
Toads Revisited
Seamus Heaney
Digging
Casualty
At Potato Digging
Mid-Term Break
Ted Hughes
Thistles
Pike
Hawk Roosting
Crow’s Fall
The Thought-Fox
Carol Anne Duffy
Text
Stealing
The Adoption Papers
Suggested Reference Books:
Alan Sinfield. “Literature and Cultural Production’’. Literature, Politics, and Culture in Postwar Britain. U of California P, 1989.
Heaney, Seamus. ‘‘The Redress of Poetry’’. The Redress of Poetry. Faber, 1995.
Waugh, Patricia. “Culture and Change: 1960-1990’’. The Harvest of The Sixties: English Literature and Its Background, 1960-1990. OUP, 1997.
E-Resources including links: https://www.academia.edu/37458406/A_Marxist_Feminist_analysis_of_The_French_Lieutena nts_Woman_John_Fowles
https://literarymama.com/articles/departments/2016/02/a-profile-of-ama-a...
Reference Journals:
International Journal of Language Academy The Ted Hughes Society Journal