Honours Specialization - Contemporary British Literature, 1950 and Beyond

ENGL 3177  Contemporary British Literature, 1950 and Beyond

Prerequisites:

Six credits of 2000 level English (excluding ENGL 2001, ENGL 2002 and ENGL 2011).

Antirequisites:

ENGL 3175

Hours:

Three hours of lecture per week for one term.

Credits:

3

Description:

Students examine British writing today and traces its development by looking at the literature of the recent past. The novels, poetry and drama of the late-twentieth-century and early twenty-first are part of a culture’s search for value, after traditional values—such as religion, nationalism, certainties of gender, and a host of other dependable ways of giving meaning to life—have fallen under question or even into disfavour.