British Novels in the 70s and 80s (Part 1)
Course details
Course code
Q00017363Course date
Number of classes
10 sessionsTimetable
Branch
BarnesTutor
Stephen SmithFee range
How you'll learn
Venue
Rose House (London)70 Barnes High Street
London
SW13 9LD
Level of study
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Course overview
Course description
"Our first text Magnus by the late Orcadian poet and novelist
George Mackay Brown will introduce us to a voice of urgent
lyricism, which shifts between the early Middle Ages in
Orkney and the Nazi regime. It is a text about faith,
community and the need for storytelling as a means to
confront life through myth. This saga will flow naturally into
Raymond Williams’ novel Border Country, which traces the
changes in class affiliations in a Welsh working class
community. Again it is about the need to relate history.
When we encounter Kay Dick’s They, a rediscovered minor
classic, we will be confronted by a vision of a very English
dystopia, centred about issues of censorship and control,
which is a vision of modern iconoclasm.
Le Carre’s work, Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy will introduce us
to Britain in decline, set against the backdrop of espionage,
but it is more than this, being a true condition of England
novel. We will evaluate Le Carre’s position as a major
novelist of the second part of the century.
We will conclude by picking up theme of storytelling again in
Graham Swift’s Waterland, a haunting meditation on the
nature of history itself."
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