BRITISH LITERATURE AND CULTURE: MODERNISM & POSTMODERNISM

2nd Year English Minors, second semester, 2017

Course Instructor: Lecturer Drago Ivana, PhD

COURSE & SEMINAR REQUIREMENTS

Attendance is not compulsory yet useful for a successful pass.
Class participation is strongly encouraged, resulting in bonuses which may considerably
improve your final grade.
FINAL WRITTEN EXAM (60% of the overall grade). Would students note that the final
exam focuses on mandatory primary bibliography. Secondary sources will help students
develop critical/theoretical arguments to be mounted during their examination, which will
definitely ensure a successful pass.

SEMINAR REQUIREMENTS
Seminar participation/oral presentations/test-quiz/essays, etc. depending on the seminar
instructors choice amounts to 40% of the final grade.
Attendance is compulsory for 5 out of 7 seminars.
DO EXPECT SURPRISE QUIZZES, particularly when students do not read the seminar
bibliography. Please note that the quiz grades will be added to the final grade.

NOTE: STUDENTS WHO DO NOT GET A MINIMUM GRADE POINT AVERAGE

OF 5 FOR SEMINAR ASSIGNMENTS WILL NOT BE ABLE TO SIT THE EXAM!!!

CORE READINGS

FICTION
JOSEPH CONRAD, Heart of Darkness;
D. H. LAWRENCE, Women in Love;
JAMES JOYCE, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man;
V. WOOLF, The Waves;
DAVID LODGE, Nice Work;
G. ORWELL, 1984;
J. FOWLES, The French Lieutenants Woman;
S. RUSHDIE, Shame
POETRY
W. H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts; In Memory of W.B. Yeats
W. B. YEATS, Leda and the Swan, Sailing to Byzantium, The Second Coming;
T. S. ELIOT, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock; The Waste Land (Canto I)
SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment; The Outlaw
Ted HUGHES, The Horses, Theology
DRAMA
S. BECKETT, Waiting for Godot;
ESSAY
V. Woolf, Modern Fiction; T. S. Eliot, Tradition and Individual Talent
SECONDARY BIBLIOGRAPHY
Students may be well served by reading the relevant chapters devoted to both the socio-historical
and intellectual background of the periods studied and the authors included in the primary
bibliography.

Robert L. Caserio, The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century English Novel,

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. (e-book format)
Neil Corcoran (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century English Poetry,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. (e-book format)
Steven Conner, Postmodernist Culture, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1989. (e-book
format)