The 20th-Century English Literature
Chapter 1 The Birth of Modernism
1. Introduction
2. Thomas Hardy(1840——1928)
2.1 Presentation topics
2.2 Selected reading
2.3 Assigned reading
3. Joseph Conrad(1857——1924)
3.1 Presentation topics
3.2 Selected reading
3.3 Assigned reading
4. D. H. Lawrence(1885——1930)
4. 1 Presentation topics
4.2 Selected reading
4.3 Assigned reading
Chapter 2 High Modernism
1. Introduction
2. W. B. Yeats(1865——1939)
2.1 Presentation topics
2.2 Selected reading
2.3 Assigned reading
3. Virginia Woolf(1882——1941)
3.1 Presentation topics
3.2 Selected reading
3.3 Assigned reading
4. James Joyce(1882——1941)
4.1 Presentation topics
4.2 Selected reading
4.3 Assigned reading
Chapter 3 The New Drama
1. Introduction
2. George Bernard Shaw(1856——1950)
2. 1 Presentation topics
2.2 Selected reading
2.3 Assigned reading
3. John Galsworthy(1867——1933)
3.1 Presentation topics
3.2 Selected reading
3.3 Assigned reading
Chapter 4 Postmodernist Fiction
1. Introduction
2. John Fowles(1926——2005)
2.1 Presentation topics
2.2 Selected reading
2.3 Assigned reading
3. Anthony Burgess(1917——1993)
3.1 Presentation topics
3.2 Selected reading
3.3 Assigned reading
Chapter 5 The Movement and After
1. Introduction
2. Philip Larkin(1922——1985)
2.1 Presentation topics
2.2 Selected reading
2.3 Assigned reading
3. Ted Hughes(1930——1998)
3.1 Presentation topics
3.2 Selected reading
3.3 Assigned reading
4. Seamus Heaney(1939—— )
4.1 Presentation topics
4.2 Selected reading
4.3 Assigned reading
Chapter 6 The Theatre of the Absurd
1. Introduction
2. Samuel Beckett(1906——1989)
2.1 Presentation topics
2.2 Selected reading
2.3 Assigned reading
3. Harold Pinter(1930——2008)
3.1 Presentation topics
3.2 Selected reading
3.3 Assigned reading
4. Tom Stoppard(1937—— )
4. 1 Presentation topics
4.2 Selected reading
4.3 Assigned reading
Chapter 7 Women's Literature
1. Introduction
2. Jean Rhys(1890——979)
2.1 Presentation topics
2.2 Selected reading
2.3 Assigned reading
3. Edith Sitwell(1887——1964)
3.1 Presentation topics
3.2 Selected reading
3.3 Assigned reading
4. Doris Lessing(1919—— )
4. 1 Presentation topics
4.2 Selected reading
4.3 Assigned reading
Chapter 8 Ethnic Literature
1. Introduction
2. Kazuo Ishiguro(1954—— )
2.1 Presentation Topics
2.2 Selected Reading
2.3 Assigned Reading
3. V. S. Naipaul(1932—— )
3.1 Presentation Topics
3.2 Selected Reading
3.3 Assigned Reading