15EJEJ34 - Contemporary English Novel

Course specification
Course title		Contemporary English Novel
Acronym		15EJEJ34
Study programme		English language and literature
Module
Type of study		first degree undergraduate academic studies
Lecturer (for classes)		prof. dr Mirna Radin Sabadoš
Lecturer/Associate (for practice)		prof. dr Mirna Radin Sabadoš
Lecturer/Associate (for OTC)
ESPB		3.0	Status
Condition			Oblik uslovljenosti
The goal		The aim of the course is to provide an overview of major thematic, formal and stylistic tendencies in contemporary British novel, spanning the period of the final two decades of the 20th century.
The outcome		Theoretical aspects: Students are able to notice, explain and analyze common features of different authors’ work falling under the umbrella term of Contemporary British Novel, focusing on the narrative technique, genre classification and chosen thematic issues, while at the same time being aware of their unique traits. Practical aspects: Students are able to apply literary analysis skills to their reading of the chosen texts, finding their theoretical grounding in the relevant critical texts and poetics of postmodernism.
Contents
Contents of lectures		The notion of ‘contemporary British novel’ in relation to Postmodernism, (post)Feminism, contemporary culture, consumerist society, entertainment industry, and popular fiction. Martin Amis: contemporary novel and 20th century consumerist culture; stylistic uniqueness. Julian Barnes: postmodernist history of the world and the problem of genre. Angela Carter: magical realism, entertainment industry and gender issues. Graham Swift: collective and individual histories. Salman Rushdie: East and West, interculturalism, fantastic elements in contemporary novel. Nick Hornby: genre fiction, lad-lit, popular novel, the notion of ‘bestseller’.
Contents of exercises		Discussion on topical issues (thematic, formal, stylistic) related to the individual novels.
Literature
Brooker, Joseph. Literature of the 1980s: After the Watershed. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2012. (Original title) Childs, Peter. Contemporary Novelists – British Fiction Since 1970. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2005. (Original title) Hutcheon, Linda. A Poetics of Postmodernism. London: Routledge. 1989. (Original title) McHale, Brian. Postmodernism. London: Routledge. 1991. (Original title) Shaffer, Brian. Reading the Novel in English: 1950-2000. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. 2006. (Original title)
Number of hours per week during the semester/trimester/year
Lectures	Exercises	OTC	Study and Research	Other classes
2	2
Methods of teaching		Lectures, literary analysis, discussion, self-study
Knowledge score (maximum points 100)
Pre obligations		Points	Final exam	Points
Activites during lectures			Test paper	30
Practical lessons			Oral examination	30
Projects
Colloquia		20
Seminars		20

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