Educational guide 2023_24 Faculty of Arts

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
1. Introduction to Fiction 2. Realism The Nineteenth-century American short story 3. Modernism The Twentieth-Century English novel 4. Postmodernism Contemporary American Fiction	The narrator, Voice, Focalisation, Point of view, Time Reflection of reality, omniscient narrator vs. point-of-view narration, criticism of social mores Novelistic experimentation, subjectivity, representation of time, stream of consciousness The formal stylistic repertoire such as self-reflexivity, new-ness, the metafictional impulse and being consciously experimental.