End-term exam topics
Contemporary Literatures in English
Code: NMBAN112 K2
Spring: 2012
Teacher Dr TiborToth
Teacher of English Language and Literature Programme
Literature
- WW2 and its Aftershocks: Representations of Cultural and Ideological Chaos
- Pacifist Fabulae and Allegory, Utopistic Barbarism
- Articulating the “Inarticulate”: The Experimental Attempts of “Angry Realism” Post War ‘New’ Realism: The Limits of The Angry Young Men
- Signalling the Cultural Divide
- Liberating Imagination: Representations of the Dilemmas of New Humanism.
- Experimentalists? Surrealism, Fantasy, Eroticism, Psycho-Sexual Occultism.
- The Metafictional “Offensive” and Its Technical Solutions.
- Notes of “Imperialist” Nostalgia.
- Feminist Deconstructions of Traditional and Modernist “Feminine” Perspectives.
- Postmodernism. Retrospective, or Deconstructive Re-presentations of Realism and Modernism in Literature.
- Variants of Colonialism and Postcolonialism.
- Anglo-Saxon Traditions of Postcolonial Literature.
- The Role of New Internationalism in Contemporary Literatures in English.
- The Meeting of Postmodern and Postcolonial Discourses: Magic-Realism.
- The Literature of Exile, Alienation and Search for New Identities.
- New Poetries in English: The Artistic Interpretation of the Search for Self in the Work of Outstanding Contemporary Poets.
- New Developments in Contemporary American, English and Irish Drama.
Recommended Bibliography
Abádi-Nagy Zoltán. Válság és komikum: A hatvanas évek amerikai regénye. Budapest: Magvető, 1982.
---. Az amerikai minimalista próza. Budapest: Argumentum, 1994.
---. Mai amerikai regénykalauz, 1970-1990. Budapest: Intera, 1995.
Bal, Mike. (1985.) 1999. Narratology.Toronto: University of Toronto Press
Beach, Christopher. 2003. The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry. Cambridger: Cambridge UP
Bertens, Hans. 2001. Literary Theory: The Basics.London and New York: Randon House
Bradbury, Malcolm, 1992: The Modern American Novel.Oxford and New York: Penguin Books Ltd.
Bradbury, Malcolm, 1993: The Modern British Novel, London: Penguin Books.
Goldie, Terry. 1989. Fear and Temptation. Montreal, London and Buffalo: McGill-Queen’s University Press
Habib, M. A. R. 2008. A History of Literary Criticism and Theory.UK: Blackwell
Habib, M. A. R. 2008. Modern Literary Theory: A History. New York and London: Blackwell Publishing House
Hutcheon, Linda, (1988) 1992: A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction. New York and London: Routledge.
Imhof, Rüdiger. 2002. The Modern Irish Novel.Dublin: Wolfhound
Leitch, Vincent, B ed. 2001. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism.New York: Norton and Company
Loomba, Ania, (1998) 2002: Colonialism/Postcolonialism. London and New York: Routledge.
Mills, Ralph J. 2003. Essays on Poetry.USA: Dalkey Archives Press
Moers, Ellen. 1976. Literary Women.New York: OxfordUniversity Press
Rainwater, Catherine, Scheick, William J. eds. 1985. Contemporary American Women Writers: Narrative Strategies.Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky
Reynolds, Guy. 1999. Twentieth Century American Women’s Fiction: A Critical Introduction.London: Macmillan Press Ltd
Rice, Philip, Waugh, Patricia eds. (1989) 1991: Modern Literary Theory: A Reader.London: Edward Arnold.
Singh, Amritjit, Schmidt, Peter. 2000. Postcolonial Theory and the United States: Race, Ethnicity and Literature. Jackson: University of Mississippi
Waugh, Patricia. 1984. Metafiction, The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction. London and New York: Methuen and Co. Ltd.
Waugh, Patricia. 1992. Practising Modernism Reading Modernism. London and New York: Edward Arnold.
Fiction
A. S. Byatt: The GameAlasdair Gray: The Loss of the Golden Silence
Alasdair Gray: Lanark 6
Alasdair Gray:Unlikely Stories, Mostly
Aldous Huxley: Brave New World.
Allan Sillitoe: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning,
Allan Sillitoe: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.
Anita Brookner: Hotel du Lac
Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess: Earthly Powers
B.S.Johnson: Albert Angelo
Ben Okri: In Arcadia
D. M. Thomas: The White Hotel
David Caute: Veronica or the Two Nations
David Lodge: How Far Can You Go?
David Lodge: Nice Work
David lodge: Small World
David Lodge: The British Museum is Falling Down
Doris Lessing: Canopus in Argos
Doris Lessing: Marhta Quest
Doris Lessing: Memoirs of a Survivor
Doris Lessing: The Four Gated City
Doris Lessing: The Golden Notebook
Doris Lessing: The Good Terrorist
Doris Lessing: The Grass Is Singing
Evelyn Waugh: Unconditional Surrender
Graham Greene: The Comedians
Graham Greene: The Honorary Consul
Graham Greene: The Human Factor
Graham Swift: Waterland
Ian Fleming: The Bond Novels (Casino Royale, Gold Finger et. al.)
Ian McEwan: The Child in Time
Iris Murdoch: A Fairly Honourable Defeat
Iris Murdoch: A Severed Head
Iris Murdoch: The Black Prince
Iris Murdoch: The Flight from the Enchanter
Iris Murdoch: The Sea, the Sea
Iris Murdoch: Under the Net
J. G. Ballard: High Rise
J. G. Ballard: The Drowned World
J. G. Farrell: The Siege of Krishnapur
John Berger: G.
John Fowles: Mantissa
John Fowles: The Collector
John Fowles: The EbonyTower
John Fowles: The French Lieutenant’s Woman
John Fowles: The Magus
John Wain: Hurry On Down, The Contenders.
Kazuo Ishiguro: An Artist of the Floating World
Kazuo Ishiguro: The Remains of the Day
Kingsley Amis: Lucky Jim, Take a Girl Like You.
Lawrence Durrell: TheAlexandria Quartet (Justine)
Malcolm Bradbury: Dr. Criminale
Malcolm Bradbury: Rates of Exchange
Malcolm Bradbury: The History Man
Margaret Drabble: The Radiant Way
Martin Amis: London Fields
Martin Amis: Money
Martin Amis: The Black Dogs
Martin Amis: Time’s Arrow
Muriel Spark: Not to Disturb
Muriel Spark: The Bachelors
Muriel Spark: The Girls of Slender Means
Peter Ackroyd: Hawksmoor
Peter Ackroyd:, Milton in America
Salman Rushdie: Satanic Verses
Salman Rushdie: Haroun and Other Stories
Salman Rushdie: Midnight’s Children
Salman Rushdie: Shame
Salman Rushdie: The Moor’s Last Sigh
William Golding: Rites of Passage
W. Golding: Pincher Martin
W. Golding: To the Ends of the Earth
William Goldin: Lord of the Flies
William Golding: Darkness Visible
William Golding: Free Fall
William Golding: Rites of Passage
William Golding: The Spire
Drama
Arnold Wesker: Roots
Caryl Churchill: Serious Money
David Edgar: Destiny
David Edgar: Maydays
David Hare: Knuckle
David Hare: Plenty
David Hare: Teeth N’ Smiles
Edward Biond: Lear
Edward Bond: Bingo
Edward Bond: Saved
Edward Bond: The Fool
Harold Pinter:North
Harold Pinter: Old Times
Harold Pinter: The Caretaker
Harold Pinter: The Dumb Waiter
Harold Pinter: The Room
Harold Pinter: Wintering Out
Howard Brenton: The Churchill Play
Howard Brenton: The Romans in Britain
Joe Orton: Loot
Joe Orton: What the Butler Saw
John Osborne: Look Back in Anger
John Osborne: Luther
John Osborne: The Entertainer
Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall: Billy Liar
Samuel Beckett: Play
Samuel Beckett: What, Where
Samuel Beckett: All That Fal
Samuel Beckett: Happy Days
Samuel Beckett:Krapp’s Last Tape
Samuel Beckett:Radio
Samuel Beckett: Rough for Theatre
Shaffer Peter: Amadeus.
Tom Stoppard: Jumpers
Tom Stoppard: Professional Foul
Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Tom Stoppard: Travesties
Trevor Griffiths: Comedians
Trevor Griffiths: The Party
Poetry
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