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NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS

FACULTY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

 

FALL SEMESTER 2019-20

1^st SEMESTER COURSE: ENGLISH FICTION

 

Section 2 (Κο-Παρ)

 

Instructor: Dr. Vassiliki Markidou

 

Office hour: Μonday 12:00-13:00 and by appointment (office 903, 9^th floor)

 

 

 

                                                            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.

 

 

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

 

 

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)

 

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

 

 

IV. 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.

 

Garrett, Peter K., ed. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Dubliners: A Collection of Critical Essays. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1968.

 

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

 

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. 

 

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Τετάρτη 2 Οκτωβρίου 2019