7: Contemporary Literature
Competence aims in focus:
The aims of the studies are to enable students to:
- elaborate on and discuss the relationship between form, content and stylistic register in sentences and texts
- have a command of the terminology needed for analysing works of fiction, films and other aesthetic forms of expression
- elaborate on and discuss the cultural position of the United States and Great Britain in the world today, and the background for the same
- analyse and assess a film and a selection of other artistic forms of expression within English-language culture
- elaborate on and discuss distinctive linguistic features of texts from different genres, from different periods and regions
- assess his or her own language learning in terms of established language learning goals
(Translation: udir.no)
Video: Flash Fiction
A look into the essence of the flash fiction genre.
Links
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Flash Fiction: A Quick Snapshot
(youtube.com)
Mining literature for deeper meanings
Writing a great English paper can be tough because literature doesn’t always reveal its deeper meanings immediately. Here are a few tips on how to read and write more critically and thoughtfully.
Visual Material
Articles and Resources
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Powerpoint: Chapter 7
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Film Studies (PDF)
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Explainer: what is postmodernism?
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Video: Postmodernism at the V&A
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Stories in your pocket: how to write flash fiction (Guardian)
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Flash Fiction – The Perfect Form for the Modern Age
https://www.writersandartists.co.uk/writers/advice/673/dedicated-genre-advice/writing-short-stories/(writersandartists.co. uk) -
To cut a long story short
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Contemporary literature (about.com)
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Will Self articles (Guardian)
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Will Self (British Council)
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Jhumpa Lahiri
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Texts by Jhumpa Lahiri (The New Yorker)
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Video: Writer Jhumpa Lahiri at home - The New Yorker
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Neil Gaiman's journal
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Neil Gaiman articles (Guardian)
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Video: Neil Gaiman - Commencement Speech at the University of the Arts 2012
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Alice Munro Wins Nobel Prize in Literature (NY Times)
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Alice Munro articles (Guardian)
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Video: Alice Munro, In Her Own Words: 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature
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Katharine Weber
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Video: Dave Eggers (TED Talks)
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Dave Eggers articles (Guardian)
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Dave Eggers, Unplugged (Wall Street Journal)
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John Edgar Wideman: Interview (The Paris Review)
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Lydia Davis: Long Story Short (The New Yorker)
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Lydia Davis: Audio interview
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Margaret Atwood's website
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Margaret Atwood articles (Guardian)
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Margaret Atwood: Interview (The Paris review)
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Gillian Flynn: Author website
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Gillian Flynn articles (Guardian)
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Philip Larkin
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Ted Hughes
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Sylvia Plath
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Carol Ann Duffy
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Derek Walcott
(poets.org)