Contemporary fiction
BT BW BB BS DT GA PA BC BP BDT BJ BY
Mike Griffiths
Subject value of 1.0 (6 points) * Second semester * 3 hours per week (1-hour lecture, 2 hours discussion) * Gippsland/Distance * Prerequisites: GSC1401 and GSC1402 or equivalents
This subject will cover a selection of significant examples of recent fiction drawn from a range of traditions (eg West Indian, British, American) and exemplifying different kinds of formal developments. Issues to be considered will include experiments in the novel form, the feminist novel, the novel of social comment and historical settings.
Assessment
Essay (3000 words): 60% * Examination (2 hours, 2000 words): 40% * The total length of assessment will not exceed 5000 words
Prescribed texts
Chatwin B On the black hill Picador, 1983
Ishiguro K The remains of the day Penguin, 1990
Lessing D The memoirs of a survivor Picador, 1976
Lodge D Nice work Penguin, 1989
Morrison T Beloved Picador, 1988
Naipaul V S Guerrillas Penguin, 1976
Narayan R K The man-eater of Malgudi Penguin, 1983