SAVREMENE TENDENCIJE U ENGLESKOJ KNJIŽEVNOSTI 1

After passing this course, the students will be able to: 1. Identify and describe the main trends, features and tendencies in the British novel in the second half of the 20th century and the 21st century; 2. make meaningful connections between wider social and cultural background and the developments of the contemporary Enlglish novel; 3. list the key authors and major fiction representative of the novelistic tendencies in the 2nd half of the 20th century and the 21st century; 4. analyse and interpret the novels which constitute the required reading in a theoretically and critically informed way (all elements of the authors poetics; characters, narrative techniques, style, aesthetic and ideological messages, etc.); 5. carry out research into more specific topics regarding the contemporary novel, using adequate critical tools and informing their papers/presentations with well-structured arguments.