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This document outlines the topics and materials for a seminar on 20th century British literature. The seminar will cover 7 topics ranging from the realism of early 20th century novels to postmodern concepts in late 20th century works. It lists primary works by authors like Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Aldous Huxley, and Ian McEwan that will be analyzed. It also provides secondary critical sources by these authors and others like T.S. Eliot, J. Habermas, and J.F. Lyotard to help discuss literary movements and concepts covered in each topic. The seminar will be led by Dr. Erika Mihálycsa in the 2015-
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This document outlines the topics and materials for a seminar on 20th century British literature. The seminar will cover 7 topics ranging from the realism of early 20th century novels to postmodern concepts in late 20th century works. It lists primary works by authors like Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Aldous Huxley, and Ian McEwan that will be analyzed. It also provides secondary critical sources by these authors and others like T.S. Eliot, J. Habermas, and J.F. Lyotard to help discuss literary movements and concepts covered in each topic. The seminar will be led by Dr. Erika Mihálycsa in the 2015-
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SEMINAR IN 20th CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE

3RD YEAR ENGLISH MINORS


TUTOR: DR. ERIKA MIHÁLYCSA ([email protected])
2015-2016

TOPICS OF DISCUSSION:
1. The turn of the century and the British novel: realism re-defined: Henry James, “The House of Fiction” (“Preface” to The
Portrait of a Lady); Henry James, “The Art of Fiction”; Joseph Conrad, “Preface” to The Nigger of the Narcissus. Joseph Conrad,
Lord Jim.

2. The advent of modernism: the private and the public; perspective and focalization; impressionism: Virginia Woolf, Mrs.
Dalloway, Virginia Woolf, “Modern Fiction”.

3. The “language revolution”; impersonality, exile and tradition reinvented: James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man;
T.S. Eliot, “Tradition and the Individual Talent”.

4. Modernity-rites of passage: the nightmare of history and the myth of civilization: Aldous Huxley, Brave New World; George
Orwell, 1984; Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man (fragments).

5. Defining postmodernism, redefining the individual, refiguring discourse: Julian Barnes, Flaubert’s Parrot; J. Habermas:
“Modernity – An Incomplete Project”; J. F. Lyotard: “Answering the Question: What is Postmodernism?”.

6. Storytelling and the sense of the past: pastiche, historiographic metafiction, spatialisation of time, re-writing history: John
Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman.

7. The “fall from innocence”: postmodern/metamodern sensibility, authorship, (inter)textuality: Ian McEwan, Atonement; J.M.
Coetzee, Elizabeth Costello.

PRIMARY SOURCES:
 Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, (New York: Bantam Books, 1981)
 Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (London: Random House, 1993)
 James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (London: Penguin Classics, 1993)
 Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (London: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2003)
 George Orwell, 1984 (New York: Plume Penguin, 2003)
 Julian Barnes, Flaubert’s Parrot (London: Jonathan Cape, 1984)
 John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman (London: Jonathan Cape, 1969)
 Ian McEwan, Atonement (London: Jonathan Cape, 2001)
 J.M. Coetzee, Elizabeth Costello (London: Viking, 2003)

SECONDARY SOURCES
 Henry James, “The House of Fiction” (“Preface” to The Portrait of a Lady) (London: Penguin Classics, pp. 41-57)
 Henry James, “The Art of Fiction” (http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/artfiction.html)
 Joseph Conrad, “Preface” to The Nigger of the Narcissus (http://www.classicauthors.net/conrad/Narcissus/Narcissus1.html)
 Virginia Woolf, “Modern Fiction” (http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91c/chapter13.html)
 James Joyce, “Realism & Idealism in English Literature: D. Defoe - W. Blake”
 T.S. Eliot, “Tradition and the Individual Talent” (in Selected Essays,
 Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man (fragments) (New York: Harper Perennial, 1993, pp.55-70)
 J. Habermas: “Modernity – An Incomplete Project” (in Thomas Docherty, ed., Postmodernism: A Reader, New York: Columbia
University Press, 1992, pp. 98-109)
 J. F. Lyotard: “Answering the Question: What is Postmodernism?” (in Thomas Docherty, ed., Postmodernism: A Reader, New
York: Columbia University Press, 1992, pp. 38-46).

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