AFN-217
ANN-217, AN-217
British Literature after 1950 (Brit irodalom 1950 után) in autumn 2003
Friedrich Judit, Wed 10:00–11:30, ADS 135, host: DES (R338)
description & set texts
This lecture course concerns British literature from 1950 to the present day. The objective is to give a survey of the major trends and also to reveal the unique qualities of particular works. The lectures will primarily focus on individual authors; general issues will be highlighted through the analysis of their works.

Barnes, Julian: Flaubert's Parrot Beckett, Samuel: [Waiting for Godot]; Endgame; Krapp's Last Tape Carter, Angela: The Bloody Chamber Duffy, Carol Ann: Sit at Peace; Adultery; Mrs Lazarus Dunn, Douglas: Second Opinion; Empty Wardrobes; The Clear Day Fowles, John: The French Lieutenant's Woman Golding, William: [The Lord of the Flies]; Rites of Passage Harrison, Tony: V. Heaney, Seamus: Digging; Funeral Rites; The Tollund Man; Bog Queen; Glanmore Sonnets Hughes, Ted: The Thought-Fox; Wodwo; Crows First Lesson, Apple Tragedy; Crow's Theology; February 17th; Fulbright Scholars Ishiguro, Kazuo: The Remains of the Day Larkin, Philip: Church Going; The Whitsun Weddings; High Windows; Sad Steps; The Importance of Being Elsewhere Lessing, Doris: The Golden Notebook McGuckian, Medbh: The Dowry Murder; Venus and the Rain; From the Dressing Room Osborne, John: Look Back in Anger Pinter, Harold: The Caretaker Rushdie, Salman: Midnight's Children Stoppard, Tom: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead; Arcadia Bibliography Dodsworth, Martin, ed.: The Penguin History of Literature: The Twentieth Century, 1994 Ford, Boris, ed.: The New Pelican Guide to English Literature, 8. The Present, 1983 Bradbury, Malcolm: The Modern British Novel, 1994 Esslin, Martin: The Theatre of the Absurd, 1980 Hamilton, Ian: The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English, 1996 Innes, Christopher: Modern British Drama 1890-1990, 1992 Perkins, David: A History of Modern Poetry: Modernism and After, 1987 [Note: Course packets are available at the printer's office behind Café Dürer.]

requirements & assessment
The course will be followed by a written exam. Students will have to write a 1200-word essay analyzing a novel, drama, or poem.

Based on the essay.