LMB AN113G3 – Essay topics
Each student is expected to submit an essay of about five typed pages (four to six pages, Times New Roman,
font size 12, double line spacing). Students can choose from a list of topics below – please note that they are not
essay titles, but very general themes. Since there are a large number of themes, each student is expected to work
on a different one. The primary sources (all of the novels and most of the films) are available in the College
Library. Students are expected to produce a research paper, therefore to consult at least five recent academic
sources of high standard. Each quoted scholarly article counts as a source, even if they are included e.g. in the
same collection of articles. GCSE resource materials and encyclopaedia articles (paper-based or electronic),
however, are not accepted as academic sources. The formal requirements of quoting and identifying secondary
sources are contained in the MLA style-sheet, a student version of which is downloadable via
www.ektf.hu/~angelika, or can be photocopied from the LBB AN215G2 Course Packet in the Literature Library.
Any student caught at plagiarism will automatically fail the course without an option to improve his or
her mark in the same term. Students with any questions related to their essay are heartily encouraged to
consult me in my office hours.
Women’s experience and/or feminist visions of the world in one of the following texts:
1) Doris Lessing, The Grass Is Singing
2) Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
3) Angela Carter, The Magic Toyshop
4) Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus
5) Jeanette Winterson, The Passion
Fiction and metafiction in one of the following texts:
6) Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
7) Lawrence Durrell, Justine
8) J. M. Coetzee, Foe
Dystopia in one of the following texts:
9) George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
10) Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
Gothic elements in one of the following texts:
11) Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
12) Angela Carter, The Magic Toyshop
Magic realism – the representation of “the real” and “the fantastic” in one of the following texts:
13) Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus
14) Jeanette Winterson, The Passion
(Re)writing history in one of the following texts:
15) Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
16) William Golding, Pincher Martin
17) Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
18) Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
Facing the colonial past in one of the following texts:
19) Doris Lessing, The Grass Is Singing
20) Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
21) J. M. Coetzee, Foe
Rewriting Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe in one of the following texts:
22) William Golding, Pincher Martin
23) J. M. Coetzee, Foe
Fiction and its interpretation in its film adaptation:
24) Alan Sillitoe, “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner” – dir. Tony Richardson (1962)
25) Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange – dir. Stanley Kubrick (1971)
26) George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four – dir. Michael Radford (1984)
27) William Golding, Lord of the Flies – dir. Harry Hook (1990)
28) Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day – dir. Ivory James (1993)
29) Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient – dir. Anthony Minghella (1996)
30) Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting – dir. Danny Boyle (1996)