Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of English Studies
- Code
- BBI-ANG22-225E.15
- Title
- Reading Culture: Interdisciplinary Approaches: The cultural memory of the Second World in British literature
- Usual semester
- Both
- Published semester
- 2026/27/1
- ECTS
- 3
- Language
- en
- Learning outcomes
- Knowledge: The aim of the course is to offer students an insight into the literary representation of the Second World in post-1989 British literature. Skill: Another aspect of the aim of this course is to make students capable of positing East-Central Europe into the literary discourse of British literature. Attitude: There are a number of attitude developments possible to occur in students’ lives after dealing with the representation of East-Central Europe and 1989 in literature. Examples include: greater awareness of postsocialist societies and cultures, understanding our culture in relation to its reverberations in English literature, intercultural realizations. Integrity and responsibility: Students need to be aware of the relationship of our culture and that of Great Britain. Supposing, they fathom these literary works, they will also develop a deeper understanding of British culture, East-Central European culture and all that happened to us as a consequence of 1989.
- Course content
- Selected literary works, as well as some of the most important theoretical works about Cultural Memory Studies.
- Assessment method
- Seminar mark on the basis of in-class activity a presentation based on (minimum 1 piece of) secondary literary work an end-term test
- Bibliography
- Compulsory: Bruce Chatwin: Utz (1989) Julian Barnes: The Porcupine (1992) Malcolm Bradbury: Doctor Criminale (1992) Tibor Fischer: Under the Frog (1992) Paul Bailey: Kitty and Virgil (1997) Kazuo Ishiguro: The Unconsoled (1998) Tom McCarthy: Men in Space (2007) Rose Tremain: The Road Home (2007) Patrick McGuiness: The Last Hundred Days (2011) Assmann, Jan. “Communicative and Cultural Memory”, Astrid Erll, Ansgar Nünning (Hg.), Cultural Memory Studies. An International and Interdisciplinary Handbook, Berlin, New York 2008, S. 109-118 Nora, Pierre. “Between Memory and History: Les Lieux de Memoire”, Representations, No 26, Special Issue: Memory and Counter-Memory (Spring 1989), 7-24 Esbenshade Richard S. “Remembering to Forget: Memory, History, National Identity in Postwar East-Central Europe”, Representations, No. 49, Special Issue: Identifying Histories: Eastern Europe Before and After 1989 (Winter, 1995), pp. 72-96 Recommended: Boym, Svetlana. The Future of Nostalgia, Basic Books, 2001 Brodzki, Bella. Can These Bones Live? Translation, Survival and Cultural Memory, Stanford UP, 2007 Caruth, Cathy. “Unclaimed Experience: Trauma and the Possibility of History”, Yale French Studies, No. 79, Literature and the Ethical Question. (1991), pp. 181-192 Harasztos, Ágnes. Photographic origins of postmemory in Tibor Fischer’s Under the Frog, NEOHELICON 2: 17 pp. 181-200. , 20 p. (2016) Kaplan, Cora. Victoriana, Histories, Fiction, Criticism, Edinburgh UP, 2007 Kiossev, Alexandre. “Notes on Self-colonizing Cultures, After the Wall. Art and Culture in post-communist Europe. Modern Museum, Stockholm 1999 Rothberg, Michael. Multi-directional Memory, Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization, Stanford UP, 2009