Reading List:
Novels:
Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders
Henry Fielding, Tom Jones
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
George Eliot, Middlemarch
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
D. H. Lawrence, The Rainbow
Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
Essays:
Henry Fielding, "Preface" to Joseph Andrews (1742), in any edition of the novel
Henry James, "The Art of Fiction" (1884), frequently reprinted in anthologies including Henry James, Selected Literary Criticism, ed. M. Shapira, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1965, pp. 49?67
Edward Morgan Forster, "The Story" and "Pattern and Rhythm," Chapters 2 and 8 of E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel (1927), Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1968, pp. 33?49 and pp. 151?170
Mark Schorer, "Technique as Discovery" (1948), in M. Schorer, The World We Imagine (Selected Essays), Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1968, pp. 3?23. In Hungarian: "A technika mint felfedezés," Török András ford., in Regény és tapasztalat. Modern amerikai irodalmi tanulmányok, Európa, Budapest, 1978, pp. 5?32
Frank Kermode, "Recognition and Deception" (1974), in F. Kermode, Essays on Fiction: 1971-1982, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1983, pp. 92?113. In Hungarian: "Felismerés és megtévesztés a regényben," Takács Ferenc ford., in F. Kermode, Mi a modern?, Európa, Budapest, 1980, pp. 282?316
Examination is in the written form. Students are required to write a 3 to 5 page in-class essay on either of two set questions that connect some angle or perspective formulated in the essays with some aspect of a novel, or novels, on the reading list. Examination time is 3 hours.