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Contemporary British Literature
The Course will enable the students to identify the cultural and literary characteristics of the period and trace the emergence of post (-War, -Empire,- Modern) sensibility in contemporary British literature, and discuss the contemporary reaction to traditional literary and cultural structures and concepts.
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 Quarterly
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The students will: CO97. Examine the experimentation in narrative, poetic and dramatic forms CO98. Evaluate representative British writers from the 1950s to the present CO99. Appraise the influence of historical, political and socio-cultural movements CO100. Produce a close analysis of representative contemporary British literary texts CO101. Develop skills to compare and contrast themes, techniques and skills used by British poets, dramatists and novelists |