Uses of realism in the classical Victorian novel: Charles Dickens
Uses of realism in the classical Victorian novel: Charles Dickens The course outlines the way Ch. Dickens employs the mode of social realism, starting from concrete social elements and his use of narrative strategies (point of view, languag Citeste tot ...
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Nineteenth century American fiction: the dark voyage. Nathaniel Hawthorne –
Nineteenth century American fiction: the dark voyage. Nathaniel Hawthorne – Herman Melville. The symbolical/mythical fiction 37 This course introduces two American 19th century writers whose main works are structured on the model of Citeste tot ...
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Versions of Victorian realism in George Eliot’s fiction: the philosophical and
Versions of Victorian realism in George Eliot’s fiction: the philosophical and intellectual novel G.Eliot’s fictional method reflects the characteristics of realism as defined by the author herself: the inclusion of random details of ev Citeste tot ...
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Narrative Strategies in the 18th century Novel
Narrative Strategies in the 18th century Novel The second course discusses the narrative techniques used in various types of the 18th century novel (the confessional, autobiographical one and the memoir convention, the comic heroic, B Citeste tot ...
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L. Sterne’s revolutionary Novel. A precedent of postmodern literature
L. Sterne’s revolutionary Novel. A precedent of postmodern literature This course focusses on L.Sterne’s experiments with the novelistic form. In his main work, Tristram Shandy, the main interaction seems to be between the narrator and the Citeste tot ...
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WYNSTAN HUGH AUDEN
WYNSTAN HUGH AUDEN R.G. Cox associates Auden with a well-known and unique representative of the Modern painting at the beginning of the century- Pablo Picasso. Cox says that Auden is the Picasso of verse and shows some features of Auden’ Citeste tot ...
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ALDOUS HUXLEY
ALDOUS HUXLEY “It was little wonder that Huxley’s novels came to be seen as works of modern cynicism. His characters appeared powerless to act, their relationships incapable of taking shape, their ideas Citeste tot ...
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OSCAR WILDE
OSCAR WILDE Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854 and unfortunately for the literary scene he died soon in 1900 but, although he did not physically overstep the fringe of the nineteenth century, his works keeps on enjoying the twentieth ce Citeste tot ...
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JOHN FOWLES
JOHN FOWLES John Fowles surprisingly merges past and present in his work, he tries to establish a bridge between a text and the twentieth century reader. Taking into account the worl around him and the works / texts already written, Fowles Citeste tot ...
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THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT
THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Eliot was descended from a distinguish New England family that had relocated to St. Louis, Mo. His family allowed him the widest education available in his time, with no influence from his father to be “practical” Citeste tot ...
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VIRGINIA WOOLF
VIRGINIA WOOLF So concerned in her own fiction with disparities between the mind and the world without, Virginia Woolf is naturally enough one of the clearest of critical commentators on the division bet Citeste tot ...
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SAMUEL BECKETT
SAMUEL BECKETT In his novels and plays alike, Beckett focused on the wretchedness of living in an attempt to expose the essence of the human condition, which he ultimately reduced to the solitary self, or to nothingness. He also pared langu Citeste tot ...
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LAWRENCE DURRELL
LAWRENCE DURRELL A prolific writer of prose, Lawrence Durrell proved an interesting and complex personality reflected in his work, structured in its turn on different levels, thus allowing differen Citeste tot ...
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PHILIP LARKIN
PHILIP LARKIN Philip Larkin is a brilliant representative of the post- modernist poetry, and his “essential criticism of modernism” refers to the contradiction which exists between its technique and reality. Larkin was the second child i Citeste tot ...
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JAMES JOYCE
JAMES JOYCE James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (February 2, 1882 – January 13, 1941), Irish poet, dramatist and novelist was born in Rathgar, a suburb of Dublin, the first born child of John Stanislaus. A jolly, bibu Citeste tot ...
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JOSEPH CONRAD
JOSEPH CONRAD Joseph Conrad’s fiction represents an intermediate stage in the transformation of the nineteenth century realistic novel into a modernist one. Considered a great novelist, unique in English literature, he was born Josef Teo Citeste tot ...
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IRIS MURDOCH
IRIS MURDOCH Beckett`s fiction and Sartre`s philosophy find a positive reception with post-war writers like Iris Murdoch. Born in Dublin in 1919 and educated at the Froebel Institute in London and Badminton in Briston, she was initially at Citeste tot ...
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WILLIAM GOLDING
WILLIAM GOLDING William Golding (1911 – 1993) is considered a particular novelist since there can be noticed a certain detachment from his work, which is a very rare situation a more or less any writer’s personality Citeste tot ...
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DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE
DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Being, a novelist I consider myself superior to the saint, the scientist, the philosopher and the poet who are all great masters of different bits of man alone, but never of the wh Citeste tot ...
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HAROLD PINTER
HAROLD PINTER Existential problems like absurdity, power, domination, fear, lack of communication are reflected in Harold Pinter`s plays, a new theatre of the Absurd. His works, cryptic and original, have been described as comedies of menac Citeste tot ...
