A319: Literature in the Modern World

Study Calendar Semester Two

2007-2008
Audio CD Audio Guide TMAs/
Week Set texts Block Reader Literature CD/Track Page # MTAs
in the
Modern World:
Critical Essays &
Documents (Essays)
Block 4: End of Empire Block 4: End of Empire
Exploration of the effects of the
dissolution of the British Empire
on a range of texts from the
1920s onwards.
° Introduction (pp. 1 – 2)  Edward Said, ‘The
1 ° Empire, imperialism and Discourse of the CD 6, ‘Indian Views
literature (pp. 3-14) Orient’ (pp. 258- Track 1 of Forster’
• E.M. Forster, A Passage to ° Orientalism (pp. 56-65) 270) (pp. 22-24)
2
India ° A study guide to A Passage to
India (pp. 15-55)
° Race and gender in A Passage  Sara Suleri, ‘The
to India (pp. 66-71) Geography of a
Passage to India’
(pp. 270-276)
(The Poetry & Drama ° A study guide to British Poetry,  Seamus Heaney, CD 6,  ‘Poetry and
3 Anthology) 1950-1980 (pp. 72-79) ‘Englands of the Tracks 2-3 the end of
• Philip Larkin’s Poetry: (pp. ° Philip Larkin (pp. 79-89) Mind’ (pp. 276-284) CD 6, Empire:
° Ted Hughes (pp. 89-97) Track 4 Philip Larkin’
102-109)
(pp. 24-27)
• Ted Hughes’s Poetry: (pp.  ‘Englands of
124-130) the Mind’
(pp. 27-29)

• Geoffrey Hill’s Poetry: (pp. ° Geoffrey Hill (pp. 97-104) Prepare

4 ° Tony Harrison (pp. 104-108) for TMA
144-151)
03
• ‘Tony Harrison’s Poetry:
(pp. 158-159)
• Sorley MacLean’s Poetry: ° Sorley MacLean (pp. 108-114) CD 6  ‘Poems by
5 ° Conclusion (pp. 114-116) Tracks 5-9 Sorley
(pp. 88-97)

Block 5: New Writings in
English
Introduction of the variety of
literature written in English in
countries once part of the British
Empire, and exploration of ways
the English language itself has
been split into l ‘Englishes’.
6 • Chinua Achebe, Things Fall
Apart
7 (The Poetry & Drama
Anthology)
• Derek Walcott’s Poetry:
131-143)
• Grace Nichols’ Poetry: (pp.
176-177)
MacLean’
(pp. 29-31)
Block 5: New Writings in
English
° Introduction (pp. 1-8)  Frantz Fanon, ‘On
National Culture’
° African Voices: Things Fall
(pp. 285-291)
Apart (pp. 9-29)
 Chinweizu et al.
‘Decolonising African
Literature’ (pp. 301-
310)
° Carribean Voices I: Derek
Walcott and Grace Nichols (pp.
(pp. 30-47)

8 • V.S. Naipaul, In a Free State ° Carribean Voices II: In a Free  Bill Ashcroft et al. CD 7 TMA 03
‘Postcolonial Track 1 Due
State (pp. 48-75)
(The Prose Anthology) Reconstructions:
• Anita Desai “Studies in the Literature,
Park” (pp. 155-163) Meaning, Value’ (pp.
311-
• Sam Selvon Extract from The 316)
Lonely Londoner (pp. 144-154)
9 • R.K. Narayan, The Painter of A sense of place: The Painter
of Signs (pp. 76-93)
Signs
10 Mid-Term Assessment No set texts No reader essays MTA 02
Block 6: Literature and Block 6: Literature and
History History
Exploration of the relationship
between literature and history.
11 (The Poetry & Drama ° Literature and history: an  Laurence Lerner, CD 7, Prepare
Anthology) introduction (pp. 1-12) ‘History and Fiction’ Track 2 for TMA
• Anna Akhmatova’s Poetry: ° Poetry and history (pp. 13-14) (pp. 318-325) 04
(pp. 26-32) ° Anna Akhmatova, ‘Requiem’  Joseph Brodsky, ‘The
(pp. 25-35) Keening Muse’ (pp.
 • Seamus Heaney’s Poetry: ° Seamus Heaney (pp. 14-25) 336-343)
(pp. 160-174)  Hayden White,
‘Introduction to
Metahistory’ (pp.
326-331)
12 Miroslav Holub’s Poetry: (pp. ° Miroslav Holub (pp. 35-45)  George Steiner, ‘The
110-118) Hollow Miracle’ (pp.
331-336)
 Czeslaw Milosz, ‘On
Hope’ (pp. 344-348)
13 (The Prose Anthology) ° J.G. Ballard, ‘Empire of the Sun’  Walter Benjamin, ‘The Next Five TMA 04
Primo Levi “The Juggler” (pp. (pp. 46-69) ‘Theses on the Numbers: Due
129-132) Philosophy of Literature and
History’ (pp. 349- History’ (pp.
° J.G. Ballard, Empire of the 351) 35-37)
Sun
14 ° Conclusion (pp. 70-71)
° J.G. Ballard, Empire of the
Sun
(continued)
15 Revision Week No set texts No reader essays CD 8, Tracks
1-6