Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of English Studies
- Code
- OT-ANG17-310.h
- Title
- Modern English and American Literature and Culture: Postmodernism in English literature
- Usual semester
- Autumn
- ECTS
- 3
- Language
- en
- Learning outcomes
- Knowledge: The aim of the course is to offer students an outline of Postmodern English literature. The course also focuses on introducing students to the main theoretical and aesthetic issues of Postmodernism and how this cultural era effects contemporary culture production. Skill: Another aspect of the aim of this course is to make students capable of realizing Postmodern stylistic marks themselves. After completing this course, they will be able to consider questions Postmodern authors and writers posed (e. g. the archaeology of knowledge, the links of knowledge and power, relationship of language and existence, identity as conceived in language etc.) Attitude: There are a number of attitude developments possible to occur in students’ lives after dealing with Postmodern literature. Examples include: enhanced openness towards other cultures and their literatures, greater awareness of the ties between societies, power structures and the cultures they produce etc. Integrity and responsibility: Students need to be aware of the literary trends characterizing their own era, and also the one immediately preceding it. Thus, they will be able to consider actual cultural questions realizing their backgrounds. Students finishing this class will hopefully be able to distinguish between cultural colonization and sensitivity, or between common place and authentic idea. In addition, they will be aware of those narratives of identities which feature in the works listed in the syllabus and creating new ones based on these.
- Course content
- Selected Postmodern English literary works of fiction, drama, and poetry, as well as some of the most important theoretical works about the Postmodern.
- Assessment method
- Seminar mark on the basis of in-class activity a presentation or a shorter mid-term assignment an end-term test
- Bibliography
- a) compulsory Foucault, Michel. ’The Order Of Discourse,’ Untying the Text: A Poststructuralist Reader, ed Robert Young, pp 51-78 Fowles, John (1969). The French Lieutenant’s Woman – excerpts Friel, Brian, Translations (1980) Rushdie, Salman (1996) ‘The Prophet’s Hair’ Seamus Heaney ’The Death of a Naturalist’ and ’The Tollund Man’, ‘Digging,’ ‘Two Lorries’ Ishiguro, Kazuo, ‘A Family Supper’ (1982) Carter, Angela, ’The Bloody Chamber’, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (1989) Excerpts from Julian Barnes, The History of the World in Ten and a Half Chapters (1989) – Chapter 1, 4 Kane, Sarah, Blasted (1995) McCarthy, Tom, Men in Space (2007) Doyle, Roddy, ‘The New Boy’ short story & short film suggested Hutcheon, Linda (199). ’The Pastime of Past Time’, Historiographic Metafiction. Roche, Anthony, Brian Friel: Theatre and Politics, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 ’Introduction’, in The Empire Writes Back, eds Bill Aschcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Hellen Tiffin, Routledge, 2002 (1989), pp 1-13 The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney, ed Bernard O’Donoghue, Cambridge UP, 2009 Waugh, Patricia, Feminine Fictions: Revisiting the Postmodern, Routledge, 1989 Sierz, Aleks, Rewriting the Nation: British Theatre Today, Ld, Methuen Drama, 2011 Korte, Barbara, ’Facing the East of Europe in its Western Isles, Charting Backgrounds, Questions and Perspectives,’ Facing the East in the West: Images of Eastern Europe in British Literature, Film, and Culture, eds, Korte, Pirker, Helff, Rodopi, 2012, pp 1-21