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NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS

SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY

FACULTY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

FALL SEMESTER 2023-24

FIRST SEMESTER COURSE: ENGLISH FICTION

Section 3 (Π-Ω)

Αmphitheater: 425 (4rth floor) 

INSTRUCTOR: Associate Professor Vassiliki Markidou

Office hour: Monday 12:00-13:00 (by appointment via email, office 903, 9^th floor, School of Philosophy Building)

e-mail address: vmarkidou@enl.uoa.gr

 

 Course Description

The course aims at examining various fictional genres in a diachronic framework and taking into consideration their relevant historical and social parameters.  The students will become familiarised with the basic elements of fiction, a vital tool in analysing the particular literary genre. The introduction includes a short survey of the genealogy of fiction. An analysis of an excerpt from a renowned British fictional text of the 18^th century will follow. The rest of the course will focus on an analysis of selected 20^th century British short stories and a 19^th century English novel.

Please make sure you have read the allocated texts before coming to class. Your active participation is both required and expected. Please bring the appropriate text to class every week.

 

Course Objectives

• Develop and improve skills such as critical reading and critical analysis of English fiction
• Become familiarized with elements of fiction as well as with the stylistic and thematic features of English novels and short stories
• Become familiarized with the historical, cultural and political contexts of English fiction (from the 18^th to the 20^th century)

Course requirements

• Final written exam
• 2 in-class exercises (450 words each &1 hour each), which will constitute short essays of critical analysis/close reading of fiction. 

 

Part I. Elements of Fiction

1. Reading a Story
2. Point of View
3. Character
4. Setting
5. Tone and Style
6. Theme
7. Symbol
8. Evaluating a Story
9. Reading Long Stories and Novels
10. A Writer in Depth

 

Part II. 1. The birth of the English novel (see relevant notes)

      2.Excerpt from Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (A Voyage to Lilliput- all chapters)

 

Part III. Primary Texts

Short Stories

1. Katherine Mansfield, ‘Miss Brill’
2. James Joyce, 'Araby'
3. D. H. Lawrence, ‘Odor of Chrysanthemums’
4. E. M. Forster, ‘The Road from Colunus’

Novel

Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

 

Suggested Bibliography (on reserve in the library)

Berkman, Sylvia. Katherine Mansfield: A Critical Study. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1951.

Draper, Ronald P. D. H. Lawrence: The Critical Heritage. London & Kegan Paul, 1970.

Eagleton, Terry. The English Novel: An Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.

Forster, E. M. Collected Short Stories. London: Penguin, 1954.

Gravil, Richard, ed. Gulliver’s Travels: A Casebook. Hampshire: Macmillan, 1974.

Johnson, Ray. Studying Fiction. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002.

Kennedy, J. X. and Dana Goia, eds. Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry and Drama. New York: Longman, 1998.

 Mee, Jon. The Cambridge Introduction to Charles Dickens. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 

Purchase, Sean. Key Concepts in Victorian Literature. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

 

 

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Τετάρτη 8 Ιανουαρίου 2014