The Nineteenth Century and the Birth of the Modern
Modern British Literature Before World War II: From Realism to Modernism
Exemplary Text: Robert Tressell, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Exemplary Text: Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Exemplary Text: The Poetry of T. S. Eliot
Exemplary Text: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
Modern Irish Literature: The Search for a New (or Old) Cultural Identity
Exemplary Text: The Poetry of W. B. Yeats
Exemplary Text: James Joyce, Dubliners
Exemplary Text: James Joyce, “Telemachus,” from Ulysses
Exemplary Text: Brian Friel, Dancing at Lughnasa
The African Postcolonial Novel in English
Exemplary Text: Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
The Indian Postcolonial Novel in English
Exemplary Text: Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
Postmodernism, Multiculturalism and Contemporary British Literature
Exemplary Text: Zadie Smith, White Teeth
The Rise of British Film
Exemplary Text: The Thief of Bagdad
Contemporary British Film
Exemplary Text: The Commitments
Exemplary Text: Shaun of the Dead
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