The 20th-Century English LiteratureChapter 1 The Birth of Modernism1. Introduction2. Thomas Hardy（1840——1928）2.1 Presentation topics2.2 Selected reading2.3 Assigned reading3. Joseph Conrad（1857——1924）3.1 Presentation topics3.2 Selected reading3.3 Assigned reading4. D. H. Lawrence（1885——1930）4. 1 Presentation topics4.2 Selected reading4.3 Assigned readingChapter 2 High Modernism1. Introduction2. W. B. Yeats（1865——1939）2.1 Presentation topics2.2 Selected reading2.3 Assigned reading3. Virginia Woolf（1882——1941）3.1 Presentation topics3.2 Selected reading3.3 Assigned reading4. James Joyce（1882——1941）4.1 Presentation topics4.2 Selected reading4.3 Assigned readingChapter 3 The New Drama1. Introduction2. George Bernard Shaw（1856——1950）2. 1 Presentation topics2.2 Selected reading2.3 Assigned reading3. John Galsworthy（1867——1933）3.1 Presentation topics3.2 Selected reading3.3 Assigned readingChapter 4 Postmodernist Fiction1. Introduction2. John Fowles（1926——2005）2.1 Presentation topics2.2 Selected reading2.3 Assigned reading3. Anthony Burgess（1917——1993）3.1 Presentation topics3.2 Selected reading3.3 Assigned readingChapter 5 The Movement and After1. Introduction2. Philip Larkin（1922——1985）2.1 Presentation topics2.2 Selected reading2.3 Assigned reading3. Ted Hughes（1930——1998）3.1 Presentation topics3.2 Selected reading3.3 Assigned reading4. Seamus Heaney（1939—— ）4.1 Presentation topics4.2 Selected reading4.3 Assigned readingChapter 6 The Theatre of the Absurd1. Introduction2. Samuel Beckett（1906——1989）2.1 Presentation topics2.2 Selected reading2.3 Assigned reading3. Harold Pinter（1930——2008）3.1 Presentation topics3.2 Selected reading3.3 Assigned reading4. Tom Stoppard（1937—— ）4. 1 Presentation topics4.2 Selected reading4.3 Assigned readingChapter 7 Women's Literature1. Introduction2. Jean Rhys（1890——979）2.1 Presentation topics2.2 Selected reading2.3 Assigned reading3. Edith Sitwell（1887——1964）3.1 Presentation topics3.2 Selected reading3.3 Assigned reading4. Doris Lessing（1919—— ）4. 1 Presentation topics4.2 Selected reading4.3 Assigned readingChapter 8 Ethnic Literature1. Introduction2. Kazuo Ishiguro（1954—— ）2.1 Presentation Topics2.2 Selected Reading2.3 Assigned Reading3. V. S. Naipaul（1932—— ）3.1 Presentation Topics3.2 Selected Reading3.3 Assigned Reading