The student who passed the course satisfactorily will be able to:

identify major themes and formal features of post-war and late twentieth-century British novel.

to compare and contrast post-war and late twentieth-century British novel with the novels written in Britain earlier in the century in terms of form and content.

will be able to outline the major lines of critical argument around the selected novels.

will be able to analyze the relationships between form and content in the selected novels.

will be able to compose a critical essay on at least one of the novels studied in class.