Course Instructor: Lecturer Dragos Ivana, PhD

20
th
-CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE: MODERNISM & POSTMODERNISM
2
nd
Year Eng!"h M!n#r"$ 20%&
COURSE RE'UIREMENTS
Attendance is not compulsory yet useful for a successful pass.
Class participation is strongly encouraged, thus resulting in bonuses which may considerably improve your
final grade.
eminar participation!presentations!test amounts to &0( of the final grade.
)INAL *RITTEN E+AMINATION ",0( of the overall grade#. $ould students note that the final oral
e%amination focuses on mandatory primary and secondary bibliography.
SEMINAR RE'UIREMENTS
Attendance is compulsory for & #-t #. , seminars.
Ca"" /art!0!/at!#n, plus seminar test to be ta&en in the final seminar "' hour#, based on the bibliography
selected by the seminar instructor.
DO E+PECT SURPRISE 'UI11ES, particularly when students do not read the seminar bibliography.
Please note that the (ui) grades will be added to the final grade.
PRIMARY BIBLIO2RAPHY 3COMPULSORY4
)ICTION
*+,P- C+./AD, Heart of Darkness0
D. -. LA$/,.C,, Women in Love0
*A1, *+2C,, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man0
3. $++L4, The Waves0
DA3ID L+D5,, Nice Work;
5. +/$,LL, 19!0
*. 4+$L,, The "rench Lieutenant#s Woman0
. /6-DI,, Mi$night#s %hi&$ren0
POETRY
$. 7. 2,A8, Le$a an$ the '(an, 'ai&ing to )*+antium, The 'econ$ %oming0
8. . ,LI+8, The Love 'ong of ,- A&fre$ Prufrock0 The Waste Lan$ "Canto I#
8,D -65-,, The Horses, Theo&og*0
,A16 -,A.,2, Punishment0 A %a&&
DRAMA
. 7,C9,88, Waiting for .o$ot0
ESSAY
3. $oolf, Mo$ern "iction0 8. . ,liot, Tra$ition an$ /n$ivi$ua& Ta&ent
SECONDARY BIBLIO2RAPHY 5t# 6e /r#7!ded 68 the 0#-r"e !n"tr-0t#r9
*ames 1c4arlane, :8he 1ind of 1odernism;, in Mo$ernism, 19011920, ed. 1alcolm 7radbury, *ames
1c4arlane "London: Penguin 7oo&s, '<=>#, pp. ='?<@.
*ohn 4letcher and 1alcolm 7radbury, :8he Introverted .ovel;, in Mo$ernism, 19011920, ed. 1alcolm
7radbury, *ames 1c4arlane "London: Penguin 7oo&s, '<=>#, pp. @<A?A'B.
teven Conner, Postmo$ernist %u&ture, +%ford: 7lac&well Publishers, '<C<.
E+AM TOPICS DPlease note that the following subEects mainly act as guidelines for the
preparation of the e%am, helping you, at the same time, concentrate on relevant ideas e%tracted
from your reading and lectures as wellF
1odernism G periodisation and characteristics.
1odernist features in HI
th
?century poetry.
1odernist features in HI
th
?century novel.
8he poetics of the city in HI
th
?century poetry and fiction.
8he revaluation of myth in 1odernist literature.
8he relevance of psychoanalysis for HI
th
?century literature.
8he absurd in the HI
th
century.
8he problem of "cultural# identity in 1odernist literature.
8he stream?of?consciousness techni(ue.
Crisis!stasis!ec?stasis in the 1odernist novel.
8he rise and role of dystopias of the HI
th
century.
Postmodernism G periodisation and characteristics.
Point of view in postmodern fiction.
8he meaning of historiographic metafiction.
Postmodern revisitations!reconfigurations of old cultural models!paradigms.
Poetry and the postmodern meaning of identity.
Colonialism vs.!and post?colonialismJ
1agic realism in alman /ushdie;s 'hame.
8he portrayal of the 3ther in postcolonial literature.
-ybridised identity in 'hame.
8he meaning of 9urt);s words :8he horrorK 8he horrorK; "Conrad, Heart of Darkness#
Individuality in 8he Love ong of ,- A&fre$ Prufrock.
$hy is +rwell;s 19! a dystopiaJ
Apart from the foregoing general topics for discussion, students will have to define and illustrate
the following literary and cultural concepts:
polyglossia, interte%tuality, archetype, :the death of the author;, metate%t, panopticon, collage,
pastiche, paranoia, the function of language in 1odernist!Postmodernist literature, the :introvert
novel;, parody, irony, hypota%is, parata%is, totalitarianism, colonialism, post?colonialism.