Kurzus nemzetközi vendég- és részidős hallgatóknak
- Kar
- Bölcsészettudományi Kar
- Szervezet
- BTK Anglisztika Tanszék
- Kód
- BBI-ANG11-217E
- Cím
- Kortárs angol nyelvű irodalom
- Tervezett félév
- Mindkét
- ECTS
- 3
- Nyelv
- en
- Leírás
- Code for non-international students start with BBN
- Oktatás célja
- This course concerns British literature from 1960 to the present day. The objective is to give a survey of the major trends and also to reveal the unique qualities of particular works. The lectures will primarily focus on individual authors; general issues will be highlighted through the analysis of their works.
- Tantárgy tartalma
- Classical contemporary: the problems of canonizing contemporaries. Postmodernism and post-postmodernism: cultural phenomena from the 1960s till the present in the light of poetry, drama and fiction. Social criticism and dystopia (Anthony Burgess, Tony Harrison etc.), magical realism and political consciousness (Salman Rushdie); the feminist point of view (Angela Carter and Amy Sackville); postcolonial literature and the boundaries of national literature (Tibor Fischer). The characteristics of contemporary poetry: creating new mythologies (Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney), commitment and social responsibility in contemporary literature (Tony Harrison, Seamus Heaney, Carol Ann Duffy, in drama: Caryl Churchill). Contemporary drama and theatre: experimentation and innovation in form and subject matter (Tom Stoppard, Caryl Churchill, in-yer-face theatre). Women’s voice and perspective in poetry and drama (Carol Ann Duffy, Caryl Churchill).
- Számonkérés és értékelés
- The course will be followed by a written exam (quiz and two essays), based on primary material and the lecture slides/handouts (available under the course material section of this website).
- Irodalomjegyzék
- Compulsory: Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange John Fowles: The French Lieutenant’s Woman Angela Carter: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories OR Amy Sackville: The Still Point Salman Rushdie: Midnight’s Children Julian Barnes: Flaubert’s Parrot OR A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters Tibor Fisher: Under the Frog Ted Hughes: The Thought-Fox, The Relic, Pike, Wodwo; Examination at the Womb-Door, A Childish Prank, Crow's theology and Apple tragedy, Love Song, February 17th. Fulbright Scholars, Your Paris, You Hated Spain, Wuthering Heights, 9 Willow Street (from Birthday Letters) Seamus Heaney: Digging, Blackberry-picking, Death of a Naturalist, The Tollund Man, Punishment, Bogland, North, From the Republic of Conscience, The Disappearing Island, Glanmore Revisited 3. and 5., Weighing In, The Aerodrome Tony Harrison: V Carol Ann Duffy: Alphabet for Auden, Head of English, Education for Leisure, The Dummy, Standing Female Nude, A Healthy Meal, Small Female Skull, Oppenheim’s Cup and Saucer, Whoever She Was, Dies Natalis, Homesick, Model Village, Psychopath, Originally, Survivor, Mean Time, Prayer, Little Red-cap, Mrs Lazarus Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Arcadia Caryl Churchill: (2 of the following 5 plays, make your choice) Cloud 9, Vinegar Tom, Top Girls, The Skriker, A Number Lecture slides available at: http://seas3.elte.hu/coursematerial/CziganyikZsolt/index.html http://seas3.elte.hu/coursematerial/PikliNatalia/index.html Recommended: (Chapters related to the compulsory reading and the lectures) Boris Ford, ed. The New Pelican Guide to English Literature Vol. 8. From Orwell to Naipaul. London, Penguin, 1999. P.R. King: Nine contemporary poets. A critical introduction, London, Methuen, 1979. Neil Corcoran, ed. The Cambride Companion to Twentieth-century English Poetry. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007 Nigel Alderman and C.D. Blanton, eds. A Concise Companion to Postwar British and Irish Poetry. Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 Sarah Broom: Contemporary British and Irish Poetry. An Introduction. New York, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2006. Eliane Aston and Elin Diamond, eds. The Cambride Companion to Caryl Churchill. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009 K.E. Kelly, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Tom Stoppard. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001 Christopher Innes. Modern British Drama 1890-1990. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992 Morrison, Jago. Contemporary Fiction, London, Routledge, 2003. James F. English. A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction. Oxford, Blackwell, 2006. Bentley, Nick. Contemporary British Fiction. Edinburgh University Press, 2008. Gray, Martin. A Dictionary of Literary Terms. London, Longman, 2004. Lewis, Roger. Anthony Burgess. London, Faber and Faber, 2002. Eszter Tory and Vesztergom Janina, eds. Stunned into Uncertainty: Essays on Julian Barnes's Fiction. Budapest, ELTE, 2014. http://www.eltereader.hu/kiadvanyok/stunned-into-uncertainty-essays-on-julian-barness-fiction/ Judit Friedrich, ed. Good To Be 56 — Writings in Honour of Tibor Fischer’s Birthdays. Budapest, L'Harmattan, 2014.