Sylabus
1. Salman Rushdie and the postmodern novel
2. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, contemporary family (hi)stories.
3. Percival L. Everett, experimenting with structure and black writing.
4. Alice Munro, the revival of short story.
5. Zadie Smith, on identity and connections.
6. Robert Eagelstone - ran overall reflection on fiction of
2000.
7. Peter Boxall - the position of novel in contemporary ficiton.
8. Robert Luckhurst, theories of the present and literature.
Anotace
Motto: „Reading literature is an integral aspect of understanding the world around us.“
The course draws on Androulaki´s and Whitted´s „English A: Literature“ (Oxford, 2019), and its chief interpretative tools, while concentrating on close reading e. g. of Virginia Woolf´s Mrs. Dalloway.