ENH2530

Contemporary English literature

Proposed to be offered next in 1999

A Dilnot

8 points
* 2.5 hours per week
* First semester
* Clayton

Objectives Students successfully completing this subject should have developed a recognition of what distinguishes contemporary literature in English from the literature of preceding periods, and a grounding in the nature of the social circumstances and cultural conditions in which contemporary literature is produced.

Synopsis The subject will examine representative examples of drama, poetry and fiction from the present generation.

Assessment Seminar report (20 minutes; 1500 words): 20%
* Essay (1500 words): 20%
* Essay (3000 words): 50%
* Seminar participation: 10%
* Students whose written work and participation in tutorials are unsatisfactory will be required to take an examination worth 50%

Prescribed texts

Adcock F The Faber book of twentieth-century women's poetry Faber
Churchill C Plays: One Methuen
DeLillo Don Libra Penguin
Garner H Cosmo cosmolino McPhee Gribble
Gems P Three plays Penguin
Harrison T Permanently bard Bloodaxe
Heaney S New selected poems, 1966- 1987 Faber
Hughes T New selected poems Faber
Lee H (ed.)The secret self Everyman
McEwan I The child in time Picador
Pinter H Plays: Two Methuen
Williamson D Brilliant Lies Currency
Winton T Cloudstreet Penguin