Course Title: The History of English Literature since Credits: 3
Modernism
Type of course: lecture and hours per week/semester: 2/30
Method of assessment (exam/practical grade): exam
Suggested semester: 5
Prerequisites (if any): Complex language exam
Course description:
The lecture course provides an introduction to the period in question concentrating on the most
important features of the history of literature, ideas and culture reflected in the works of art
composed by the period’s representative authors within the fields of the different genres.
The survey focuses on fundamental works and terms, which support students in the discussion of
the highlighted works of art to develop their erudite and sophisticated though not exclusively
scholarly reading, and to acquire a sure ground of knowledge that prepares them for the MA
training aiming at academic objectives.
Required and recommended reading:
COMPULSORY:
BROOKER, Peter [et al.]. The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2010. xvii, [1], 1182 p., ISBN 978-0-19-954544-5
BALDICK, Chris, The Oxford English Literary History, Volume 10: 1910-1940: The Modernist
Movement, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011, xv, [3], 477 p., ISBN 978-0-19-928834-2
STEVENSON, Randall. The Oxford English Literary History, Volume 12: 1960-2000: The Last of
England? Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. xiv, [2], 624 p., ISBN 978-0-19-818423-2
KING, Bruce. The Oxford English Literary History, Volume 13: 1948-2000: The
Internationalization of English Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. xii, [2], 386 p.,
ISBN 0-19-818428-X
RECOMMENDED:
SCHWARZ, Daniel R. Reading the Modern British and Irish Novel. Malden [etc.]: Blackwell, 2005.
ix, [1], 297 p., ISBN 0-631-22622-2
LUCKHURST, Mary. A Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama. Malden [etc.]: Blackwell,
2006. xvii, [1] 584 p., ISBN 978-1-4051-2228-3
O’NEILL, Michael and Madeleine CALLAGHAN. Twentieth-Century British and Irish poetry.
Chichester [etc.]: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. x, 301 p., ISBN 978-0-631-21510-3
Lecturer responsible for course: Péter Benedek Tóta, associate professor, CSc
Lecturers participating in teaching: