Social Inspirations and Major Trends of English and Anglophone Literatures (the 20th and 21st Century)

elementary

enter learning outcome code/codes

S1A_W05, S2A_W05

Students will be able to understand the importance of main trends and subjects presented in English and Anglophone Literatures (XX-XXI c.). From a theoretical point of view students will be able to confront different schools and authors in order to understand language and literary communication in modern English and Anglophone Literatures.

The discipline aims to raise student awareness of major literary and cultural trends that have dominated the literary landscape of the last two centuries. It offers a glimpse of a variety of historical, cultural and political situations and literary responses to them in an effort to investigate the role of literature in reading and interpreting factual reality. Specifically, the course focuses on English and Anglophone writing thus offering an alternative approach, starting with but moving away from well-established authors to authorial voices that often come from ethnic “peripheries”. Bringing all perspectives together is a necessary tool that will help expand the way we assess difference and think beyond borderlines.

Thematic content:

1. Literary trends and techniques in early twentieth-century

2. Modernism: questions of tradition and revision

3. T. S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

4. Writing between the currents: Joseph Conrad

5. Modernist techniques of writing: stream-of-consciousness (James Joyce,Ulysses)

6. Postmodernism 1: general characteristics and major concerns

7. Postmodernism 2: literary techniques

8. John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman

9. Postcolonial trends

10. Introducing Salman Rushdie

11. Reading Rushdie’s novel Midnight’s Children

12. The boundary: theoretical considerations

13. Migration and migrant writing

14. Topologies of migration. The "West", the "Far East", the "Middle East". European “centres” and “peripheries”

15. Representing the Middle East: historical overview

III. Bibliography:

Modernism, Postmodernism, Postcolonialism

Rushdie, S. Imaginary Homelands. London: Granta Books, 1991. At: http://en.bookfi.org/s/?q=Salman+Rushdie.+Imaginary+Homelands&t=0

Said, Edward. Orientalism. Penguin Books, 1991.

Spivak, Gayatri. “Can the Subaltern Speak?”, edited by Rosalind Morris, Columbia UP, 2010.

Migration and writing

Clingman, Stephen. The Grammar of Identity. Transnational Fiction and the Nature of the Boundary. Oxford UP, 2009.

Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: the Birth of the Prison. Vintage Books, 1979.

---. "Of Other Spaces. Utopias and Heterotopias.” Diacritics, vol. 16, 1986, pp. 22-27.

---. “The Eye of Power.” Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977, translated by Colin Gordon et. al., Pantheon, 1980, pp. 146-165.

Pratt, Mary Louise. Imperial Eyes. Travel Writing and Transculturation. Routledge, 1992, 2008.

Pratt, Mary Louise. “Arts of the Contact Zone.” Profession, 3 March 2011, http://www.jstor.org/stable/25595469.

Walkowitz, Rebecca. Born Translated: The Contemporary Novel in an Age of World Literature. Columbia UP, 2015.

Migration and border-crossing

Anzaldúa, Gloria. “The Homeland, Aztlán/El otro México.” Borderlands/La Frontera. Aunt Lute Books, 1987.

Ette, Ottmar. Writing-between-Worlds: Transarea Studies and the Literatures-without-a-Fixed-Abode. Walter de Gruyter, 2016.

Fowler, Corinne, Charles Forsdick and Ludmilla Kostova, editors. Travel and Ethics: Theory and Practice. Routledge, 2014.

Frank, Søren. Migration and Literature. Günter Grass, Milan Kundera, Salman Rushdie, and and Jan Kjærstad. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Goodman, Mark. “Diaspora, Ethnicity and Problems of Identity.” Muslim Diaspora. Gender, Culture and Identity, edited by Haideh Moghissi, Routledge, 2006.

Islam, Syed Manzurul. The Ethics of Travel: From Marco Polo to Kafka. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996.

Kostova, Ludmilla. “Writing Across the Native/Foreign Divide: the Case of Kapka Kassabova’s Street Without a Name (2008).” Travel and Ethics, edited by Corinne Fowler, Charles Forsdick and Ludmilla Kostova, Routledge, 2013, pp. 165-182.

Upstone, Sara. Spatial Politics in the Postcolonial Novel. Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2009.

S1A_W05 - ma podstawową wiedzę o człowieku, w szczególności jako podmiocie konstytuującym struktury społeczne i zasady ich funkcjonowania, a także działającym w tych strukturach

S2A_W05- ma rozszerzoną wiedzę o człowieku jako twórcy kultury, pogłębioną w odniesieniu do wybranych obszarów aktywności człowieka

Grading criteria: student attendance, class work (discussions etc.), end-of-course presentations.

Learning outcomes

Students will be able to understand the importance of main trends and subjects presented in English and Anglophone Literatures (XX-XXI c.). From a theoretical point of view students will be able to confront different schools and authors in order to understand language and literary communication in modern English and Anglophone Literatures.

Assessment methods

- Oral presentation (teamwork) - 60%

- Individual short exercise - 30%

- Participation in class - 10%

Assessment Methodology:

Each subject will be firstly provided as a lecture on the particular Issue, then further discussed in accordance with further readings allocated for presentations and obligatorily written by students.

All required readings are available in The Library of Humanities room 303 at Devaitis Campus New Building.. Folder will be provided to use in place at student request by the library staff. grade based on triple factorial assessment :

1.Attendance (up to one absence allowed)

2. Activity (constant assessment based on student activities during the spam of the course and academic knowledge of required readings.)

3 Attendance in the workshops

Conservatory English and fluency in reading are required

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