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Introduction: basic literary terms and critical concepts (some basic guidelines for reading literature)

A duality in Victorian literature

Authors associated with the late Victorian Period, particularly Oscar Wilde

Victorian writing reflects the dangers and benefits to rapid industrialization, while encouraging readers to examine closely their own understanding of the era’s progress

G. B. Shaw

Irish dramatist, literary critic, a socialist spokesman, and a leading figure in the 20^th century theatre

Literature between the Wars

Literature between the outbreak of the World War I and the beginning of the World War II with attention to cultural, political and literary contexts

- social changes

- the new conception of the human self

Modernist experiments I:

James Joyce: a prominent contributor to the Modernist Movement

Modernist experiments II:

Virginia Woolf: a key figure of Modernism

The Bloomsbury Group and its considerable influence on literature, philosophy, and art during World War

Revision:

George Orwell, an acute observer of his time, in the context of significant historic and political events

Theatre of the Absurd: an existentialistic vision of the meaningless of human existence

Samuel Beckett and his influence on Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard.

The themes of fall, guilt, corruptibility and the depravity of human nature in William Golding’s novels

Postcolonial British Literature

Arundhati Roy, Kazuo Ishiguro, Salman Rushdie, etc.