BTAN1001MA The English Language 2018

Post-1945 British Culture and Literature

Required reading:
FICTION
1. Colonial, postcolonial, black British, multicultural: E. M. Forster: The Passage to
India OR J. G. Farrell: The Siege of Krishnapur OR J. M. Coetzee: Foe OR V. S.
Naipaul: The Mimic Men OR Sam Selvon: The Lonely Londoners OR Hanif Kureishi:
The Buddha of Suburbia OR Zadie Smith: White Teeth OR Meera Syal: Anita and Me
OR Monica Ali: Brick Lane OR Bernardine Evaristo: The Emperor’s Babe OR Salman
Rushdie: Midnight’s Children OR Shame OR The Satanic Verses

2. Postmodernism. Samuel Beckett: Molloy OR B. S. Johnson: Albert Angelo OR Martin

Amis: Money OR Peter Ackroyd: Hawksmoor OR Robert Nye: Faust OR Julian Barnes:
Flaubert’s Parrot OR D. M. Thomas: The White Hotel

3.Historiographic metafiction, Neo-Victorian fiction: John Fowles: The French

Lieutenant’s Woman OR Graham Swift: Waterland OR Marina Warner: Indigo OR Sarah
Waters: Affinity OR Bruce Chatwin: On the Black Hill OR Timothy Mo: Insular
Possession OR A. S. Byatt: Possession OR Jim Crace: The Harvest

4. Contemporary Scottish fiction: Alasdair Gray: Poor Things OR Lanark OR James

Kelman: How Late It Was, How Late OR Janice Galloway: The Trick Is to Keep
Breathing OR Iain Banks: The Wasp Factory OR Alan Warner: Morvern Callar OR
Irvine Welsh: Trainspotting OR Ali Smith: Hotel World

5. Women’s writing and postmodernism: Barbara Pym: Excellent Women OR

Elizabeth Taylor Palladian OR Anita Brookner: Hotel du Lac OR Angela Carter: The
Magic Toyshop OR Nights at the Circus OR Wise Children OR Jeanette Winterson:
Sexing the Cherry OR Fay Weldon: The Life and Times of a She-Devil OR Jane Rogers:
Mr Wroe’s Virgins

6. Contemporary: Ian McEwan: The Innocent OR J. G. Ballard: Empire of the Sun OR

Jonathan Coe: What a Carve Up! OR Zadie Smith: N/W OR OR Kate Atkinson Behind
the Scenes at the Museum OR Kate Atkinson: Human Croquet OR Jon McGregor: Even
the Dogs OR Sarah Hall The Carhullan Army

Short fiction:
Rudyard Kipling: „The Mark of the Beast”, „The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes”

Poetry:
To be announced and distributed in the lecture

Film:
The Ladykillers (Alexander Mackendrick, 1955)
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (Tony Richardson, 1962)
The Chariots of Fire (Hugh Hudson, 1981)