ENG 5560 Studies in 20th Century British Literature

A study of twentieth-century British writers of fiction, drama, and/or poetry, including but not limited to Conrad, Joyce, H.G. Wells, D.H. Lawrence, Woolf, Mansfield, Forster, Orton, Osborne, Pinter, Delaney, Stoppard, Hare, Churchill, Gems, Matura, Pinnock, Eliot, Lawrence, Graves, Auden, S. Smith, Loy, Spender, Lewis, D. Thomas, Ted Hughes. A portion of the course readings may be devoted to writers from British colonial and/or postcolonial regions as well as literature written in the twenty-first century. The literary texts will be studied within the contexts of contemporary literary criticism and literary theory. The course will focus on a particular topic, genre, or writer based on the instructor’s interests.
Credits: 3.0