Specialization - Contemporary British Literature, 1950 and Beyond
ENGL 3177 Contemporary British Literature, 1950 and Beyond
Prerequisites:
Six credits of 2000 level ENGL (excluding
ENGL 2001,
ENGL 2011) or any 45 credits
completed (excluding ENGL 1501, ENGL 1502,
ENGL 2001,
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.