THEORY:
1. The basic attributes of realist, modernist and postmodernist literature.
2. Theories of postmodernism (Lyotard, Baudrillard, Jameson, McHale)
3. Comparison of modernism and postmodernism.
4. James Joyce – epiphany, cyclical theory of G.B. Vico, Ulysses (setting, characters, genre, narrative technique, pretext – Homer’s Odyssey, name and comment some chapters by drawing parallels to Homer’s work)
5. Samuel Beckett – existentialism, solipsism, quietism, literature of silence, cultural code, subject matters of his novels, characters (Everyman), narrative technique
6. George Orwell – dystopia, manipulation of language and history, political fiction
7. Graham Greene – catholic novel, special type of character (sinful saint / saint sinner), major conflicts
8. Feminism – cultural and literary definition, some representatives (V. Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Kate Millet), major objectives
9. Fay Weldon – major themes
10. John Fowles – experimental fiction, metanarrative
11. Anthony Burgess – experimental fiction (language – its form, function, effect)
12. David Lodge – campus novel, characters and setting, experimental features in ‘Changing Places’ (narrative techniques)
13. Graham Swift – new historicism, themes, the concept of history
14. Colonial Literature - Joseph Conrad
15. Postcolonial Literature - postcolonial discourse, main subject matters and issues
DISCUSSION:
* books from the syllabus - focus on interpretation and critical thinking
