AJL14104: English Literature 4: 1920-present

This course will engage various texts and contexts of the 20th and 21st centuries' English literature, from the Modernist movement, Reflections of WWII, Notions of Nation and Race in the post-colonial context, feminist writings, New Historical writing, and emerging voices. Among the covered authors, there are Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, G. Orwell, G. Greene, W. Auden, D. Thomas, S. Beckett, S. Rushdie, H. Kureishi, B. Evaristo, D. Nagra, P. Larkin, D. Lessing, T. Gunn, D. Walcott, T. Stoppard, S. Heaney, C. A. Duffy, F. Weldon, D, Lessing, I. McEwan, H. Mantel, K. Ishiguro, Z. Smith, and C. N. Adichie. Special attention will be paid to how various literary and visual forms are employed for biographical, political, social, cultural, and religious ends.