This seminar aims to provide a cursory overview and to pursue a close reading of a number of contemporary British novelists. Next to canonical author Julian Barnes (The Sense of an Ending), we shall study Xiaolu Guo’s I Am China and James Kelman’s Dirt Road (please obtain your own copies!). Moreover, we shall investigate new writers in short prose format as in GRANTA’s Best of Young British Novelists of 2013.
Apart from the three novels mentioned above, all material will be available on the Moodle platform.
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