15EM021 - Magical Realism in the Contemporary British Prose

Course specification
Course title		Magical Realism in the Contemporary British Prose
Acronym		15EM021
Study programme		English Language and Literature
Module
Type of study
Lecturer (for classes)		prof. dr Arijana Luburić-Cvijanović
Lecturer/Associate (for practice)		prof. dr Arijana Luburić-Cvijanović
Lecturer/Associate (for OTC)
ESPB		6.0	Status
Condition			Oblik uslovljenosti
The goal		The course is designed to introduce students to the diverse characteristics of the literary mode of magic(al) realism as it appears in contemporary British fiction, focusing on the works of the most notable exponents of the mode.
The outcome		Students are familiar with the features of the magic realist novels in contemporary British fiction, and are able to apply and express literary interpretation effectively.
Contents
Contents of lectures		Historical and cultural background of magic(al) realism: various geographies, different forms, different arts. Magic(al) realism and Postmodernist, Postcolonial, and (post)feminist poetics. Magic(al) realism and related genres/modes: realism, fantastic fiction, science fiction, gothic fiction. Magic(al) realism in the novels of Angela Carter, Salman Rushdie, Jeanette Winterson, Emma Tennant, Robert Nye, Marina Warner, Ben Okri.
Contents of exercises		Discussion and analysis of excerpts from the following works: Angela Carter, Nights At the Circus Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children Jeanette Winterson, The Passion Jeanette Winterson, The World and Other Places Emma Tennant, Wild Nights Robert Nye, The Late Mr. Shakespeare Marina Warner, Indigo Ben Okri, The Famished Road
Literature
Maggie Ann Bowers, Magic(al) Realism, New York: Routledge, 2004 (Original title) Amaryll Chanady, Magical Realism and the Fantastic: Resolved Versus Unresolved Antinomy, New York: Garland, 1985 (Original title) David K. Danow, The Spirit of Carnival: Magical Realism and the Grotesque, Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2004 (Original title) Wendy B. Faris, Ordinary Enchantments – Magical Realism and the Remystification of Narrative, Vanderbilt University Press, 2004 (Original title) Anne Hegerfeldt, Lies that Tell the Truth – Magic Realism Seen Through Contemporary Fiction from Britain, Amsterdam: Rodopi,2005 (Original title) W. Faris, L. Parkinson Zamora, Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community, Duke University Press, 1995 (Original title) Nina Muždeka, Magic(al) Realism in A. Carter's Novels, Novi Sad: Faculty of Philosophy, 2016
Number of hours per week during the semester/trimester/year
Lectures	Exercises	OTC	Study and Research	Other classes
2	2
Methods of teaching		Theoretical: Lectures, Independent Research Practical classes: Discussion and analysis of excerpts, close reading analysis
Knowledge score (maximum points 100)
Pre obligations		Points	Final exam	Points
Activites during lectures			Test paper	20
Practical lessons		15	Oral examination	30
Projects
Colloquia
Seminars		35

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