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Contemporary British Literature
The students will:
CO 101. Acquire knowledge of the experimentation in narrative, poetic and dramatic forms
CO 102. Critically appreciate representative British writers from the 1950s to the present
CO 103. Recognise the influence of historical, political and socio-cultural movements
CO 104. Conduct a close analysis of representative contemporary British literary texts
CO 105. Develop skills to compare and contrast themes, techniques and skills used by British poets, dramatists and novelists
Seamus Heaney
Whatever you say, say nothing
Punishment
Casualty
Philip Larkin
The Whitsun Weddings
Maiden Name
I Remember, I Remember
Thom Gunn
On The Move
Autumn Chapter
John Fowles
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Harold Pinter
The Homecoming
Muriel Spark
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Ian McEwan Atonement
Chaterjee, Sisir. Philip Larkin: Poetry that Builds Bridges. Atlantic Publishers, 1999.
Draper, Ronald P, ed. The Literature of Region and Nation. St. Martin’s Press, 1989.
Esslin, Martin. Theatre of the Absurd. Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
Marwick, Arthur. British Society since 1945. Penguin Books, 1982.
Motion, Andrew. Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life. Faber & Faber, 1994.
Quigley, Austin.The Modern Stage and Other Words. Routledge, 2014.
Scigaj, Leonard M. Critical Essays on Ted Hughes. G.K. Hall, 2000.
e-resources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRdUewUuJBE (Fowles)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfrLcfbgRCw (Spark)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWo7UfJcnEk (McEwan)
Journals:
Contemporary Literature
Modern Language Quaterly