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Σύγχρονη Αγγλική Πεζογραφία/ Contemporary English Fiction
(63ΛΕ57) - Anna Despotopoulou
Περιγραφή Μαθήματος
Spring 2025
Thursday 12:00-15:00, room 822
Contemporary English literature is characterized by a striking pluralism which reflects, on the one hand, various social-cultural and historical developments in the post WW2 England, and, on the other, the increasingly multicultural structure of English society in our times. The course focuses on representative novels by major authors of the late 20th and early 21st century and aims at exploring and identifying key thematic and stylistic trends that marked the fiction of the period. The texts will be studied in detail from a theoretical and socio-historical perspective, and topics to be examined include post-colonialism, race, national identity, posthumanism, gender and sexuality, history, class, war, memory, truth, and self-consciousness in fiction.
Authors studied include Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jeanette Winterson, Ian McEwan, and Kazuo Ishiguro. Please see the syllabus in the Introduction course unit below.
Taught by A. Despotopoulou
"So Many Books, So Little Time" by SimpleG. Athens Mural
Ημερομηνία δημιουργίας
Τρίτη 25 Ιανουαρίου 2011
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Instructors
Anna Despotopoulou is Professor in English Literature and Culture. She holds degrees in English Studies from the University of Athens (BA), the University of Oxford (M.Phil.), and the University of Reading (Ph.D.). Her research interests lie in Victorian, Modernist, and contemporary fiction, Henry James, and feminist theory. She teaches 19th and 20th century English fiction. She is the author of Women and the Railway, 1850-1915 (Edinburgh University Press, 2015). She has co-edited the volumes Hotel Modernisms (Routledge 2023), Victorians and Modern Greece: Literary and Cultural Encounters (Routledge 2025), Reconstructing Pain and Joy: Linguistic, Literary, and Cultural Perspectives (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008), Henry James and The Supernatural ( Macmillan, 2011), Transforming Henry James (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013), Ruins in the Literary and Cultural Imagination (Palgrave Macmillan 2019), and the third issue of the e-journal Synthesis on Realism. She has published many articles on Henry James, Jane Austen, Joseph Conrad, Christina Rossetti, George Eliot, and Rhoda Broughton, among others, in internationally published books and journals. She is the principal investigator of the research project "Hotels and the Modern Subject, 1890-1940" funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation. She was the President of the Henry James Society in 2023.