English and American Literature from the 20th Century to the Present

Annotation

The aim of the course is to introduce students to the cultural plurality of British and American literature of the 20th and 21st centuries as well as to develop the ability to analyse, interpret and evaluate texts. Themes:

1. Edwardian period and British Modernism

2. British literature from the 1930s to 1960s

3. Postmodernism in British Literature

4. British literature from the 1980s until today

5. 20th-century British drama

6. British poetry from the 1940s until today

7. American realism and naturalism

8. American modernism

9. Contemporary American fiction

10. Postmodernism in American literature

11. American 20th-century drama

12. American poetry from the 1940s until today