EL4008:04
*NOTE* Contemporary British Literature
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Prerequisites: Substantial achievement in 3 levels of EL subjects
26 hours seminars. Full year.
Available to students in the level 4 English Honours program.
Staff: Dr R Lansdown.
An advanced study of British literature in the last twenty years, this subject is intended to shed light on the fiction, poetry and drama in a country with an overwhelmingly rich literary heritage but an uncertain place in the world. It will also involve writing of other kinds e.g. philosophy, journalism, memoirs, history.
Learning Objectives:
- a thorough understanding of the set texts in themselves, but also in relation to the British literary tradition and recent social developments in that country;
- a fair sense of the British literary establishment, its ideological allies and opponents;
- a good understanding of the new place of ‘minority’ literatures in British culture;
- an awareness of the different perspectives on contemporary literature in different English-speaking countries (e.g. Britain and Australia).
Assessment by a 4,000 word essay (60%); seminar attendance and contribution (10%); a 1,500 word essay (30%).
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