Fall 2005 Courses

English 340: Twentieth Century British Literature (Tobeck)

TTh 10:10-11:40
OLRI 101

This course is organized around a broadly-interpretable theme of infidelity. Within this framework we’ll address such topics as changing conceptions of truth, subjectivity, and representation, critiques of conventional morality and the idea of the family, nationalism and language, colonial revolt, history and memory, and relationships between all these and literary innovation. Though the theme and reading list are somewhat expansive, discussion will remain centered on detailed close analyses of text.

Reading List

The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 2C, The Twentieth Century
Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier
Graham Greene, The Quiet American
Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
Ian McEwan, Atonement

Fall 2005 Course Listings