Course title

Modern British Fiction

Instructor

Zhaoxia Bu

Instructor’s profile

Ph.D. of Literature

Associate Professor

Research Field: English Novels, Comparative literature

Course goals

The course is to get the students familiar with major British writers of the 20th century.

Topics

Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf and Kazuo Ishguro

Assessment

Term paper 50% Class performance 50%

Reference books

Heart of Darkness, Women in Love, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, A Pale View of Hills.

Working language

English

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