AN-213
ANN-213, AFN-213
English novel (Angol regény ea.) in autumn 2005
Takács Ferenc, Wed 11:30–13:00, ADS 135, host: DES (R338)
description & set texts

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

requirements & assessment

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.