Παρουσίαση/Προβολή

(ENL584) -  Iro Filippaki | Ηρώ Φιλιππάκη

Περιγραφή Μαθήματος

This course explores Britain’s prose production of the 20^th and 21^st centuries focusing on well-known literary texts that represent Britain’s pluralistic and multicultural postwar society. Students will close-read novels and short stories from a theoretical and socio-historical perspective, while examining the recurring and changing themes and narrative patterns of the postwar era. Emphasis will be given on prevalent issues explored in British fiction of the latter part of the 20^th and the beginning of the 21^st centuries, such as existential and metaphysical concerns, social alienation and loneliness, sexual and cultural identities, the war on terror, and the effect of technology on the postmodern subject.

email: irofil@enl.uoa.gr

Course requirements

Final exam; 100%

Course objectives

• To provide a broad study of the major developments of British prose over the latter half of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century;
• to examine British prose concurrently with the historical and socio-cultural developments in the British postwar world;
• to examine the work of selected representative writers in detail;
• to stimulate critical analysis of the aesthetics, themes, and narrative tropes of postwar British prose as shaped by socio-political developments in Britain (and abroad, as needed) through lectures, class exercises, and class discussion.

 

Ημερομηνία δημιουργίας

Τρίτη 22 Φεβρουαρίου 2022