Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of English Studies
- Code
- BBI-ANG-227E.01
- Title
- Reading Literary Texts: E.M. Forster and the Modern Novel
- Usual semester
- Both
- ECTS
- 3
- Language
- Learning outcomes
- The aim of this course is to introduce students to E. M. Forster’s novels within the context of the modernist debate about the possible future(s) of the English novel.
- Course content
- We will be discussing theoretical works written by E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, and H. G. Wells, as well as analysing Forster’s novels within the colonial-postcolonial historical context. Set texts include Aspects of the Novel and Where Angels Fear to Tread, Howards End, and A Passage to India.
- Assessment method
- A student’s final mark is based on her/his work during the seminar series and on the mark s/he receives for her/his end-of-term in-class essay.
- Bibliography
- Compulsory: · Colmer, John. E.M. Forster: A Personal Voice. London: Routledge and Keegan Paul, 1975. · Scherer Herz, Judith and Robert K. Martin. E.M. Forster: Centenary Revaluations. London: Macmillan, 1984. Recommended · Furbank, Philip Nicholas. E.M. Forster: A Life. London: Secker and Warburg, 1978.