Key points for discussion:
What are the common themes that dominated the 20
thcentury English novel?
In what ways does the post-war British novel differ from the modernist style?
How did the “angry young men” movement emerge?
How did the emphasis on the position of the individual in the changing society of post-war Britain lead to the polarisation of British fiction between traditional and experimental writing?
Useful sources:
Bradbury, Malcolm. The Modern British Novel. London: Penguin, 1994.
Scanlan, Margaret. Traces of Another Time: History and Politics in Postwar British Fiction.
Ferrebe, Alice. British Fiction in the 1950s: Introduction.
Head, Dominic. The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction, 1950- 2000.
Lodge, David. The Art of Fiction.
McHale, Brian. Postmodernist Fiction.
Shaffer, Bryan W. (Ed.) A Companion to the British and Irish Novel: 1945-2000.
Accessible from Ankara University E-library via the link below:
http://eds.a.ebscohost.com/eds/ebookviewer/ebook/bmxlYmtfXzE4MTU2N19f QU41?sid=7db1d8a0-c686-41ce-a7f0-
2eb937229286@sessionmgr4007&vid=30&format=EB&rid=6
Tew, Philip. The Contemporary British Novel.
Waugh, Patricia. Feminine Fictions: Revisiting the Postmodern.
