EN201 THE EUROPEAN NOVEL - LECTURE LIST 2018-2019

Lectures will be given in SO.11 on Wednesdays at 12.00 noon. To listen to recorded lectures (if available) please use Lecture Capture panel on Moodle.

Lecture schedule

Autumn Term

Week 1: 3 October: Introduction (Paulo de Medeiros)  

Week 2: 10 October: Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther (Michael Hulse)  

Week 3: 17 October: Austen, Emma
 (Rita Dashwood)  

Week 4: 24 October: Flaubert, Madame Bovary (Kate Astbury)   

Week 5: 31 October: Dostoievsky, Crime and Punishment (Pablo Mukherjee)    

Week 6: 7 November Reading Week

Week 7: 14 November: Dostoievsky, Crime and Punishment
 (Graeme Macdonald)   

Week 8: 21 November: Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (Birgit Breidenbach)    

Week 9: 28 November: Zola, Germinal and Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (Graeme Macdonald)  

Week 10: 5 December: Zola, Germinal (Pablo Mukherjee)  

Spring Term

Week 1: 9 January: Hamsun, Hunger (Graeme Macdonald)  

Week 2: 16 January: Kafka, The Trial (Thomas Docherty)  

Week 3: 23 January: Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (Christina Britzolakis)

Week 4: 30 January: di Lampedusa, The Leopard (Paulo de Medeiros)   

Week 5: 6 February: Lobo Antunes, The Land at the End of the World (Paulo de Medeiros)  

Week 6: 13 February: Reading Week

Week 7: 20 February: Djebar, Algerian White (Paulo de Medeiros) en201-algerian_white-2019.pptx

Week 8: 27 February Sebald, Austerlitz (Paulo de Medeiros)

Week 9: 6 March: Marías, Thus Bad Begins (Paulo de Medeiros) en201_thus_bad_begins.pptx

Week 10: 13 March: Deane, Reading in the Dark (Thomas Docherty)

Summer Term

Week 2: 2 May, 10:00-11:00: Revision Lecture (Graeme Macdonald)

Week 3: 8 May, 14:00-15:00: Revision Lecture (Paulo de Medeiros)