British Literature

The course provides a critical reading of the different cultural and historical circumstances of British literature after WWII and focuses on specific postwar literary texts for a convenient analysis. The socioeconomic and cultural aftermaths of the Second World War are thereby detected in postwar English literature. Indeed, British literature, in all its forms and genres, poetry, drama, and prose, have been shaped by the postwar conditions to draw playfully a map of postwar Britain where the common man is compelled to live in a chaotic world. The course requires the selection of relevant texts that correspond to such trends as postmodernism, theatre of the Absurd, women's writing and postcolonialism within the British context after 1945.