By Valerie Fehlbaum
Wednesday from 18.30 to 19.45pm, on 14 January, 11 February, 11 March, 29 April
After obtaining her B.A. at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, VALERIE FEHLBAUM moved to Switzerland where she taught English as a Foreign Language for a few years before joining the English Department at the University of Geneva. She then went on to obtain an M.A. in Gender Studies and a Ph.D. on the New Woman at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Her subsequent monograph on
Ella Hepworth Dixon was initially published by Ashgate in 2005 and republished in paperback by Taylor & Francis in 2019. She has also lectured at the University of Neuchâtel and tutored with the Open University.
The parameters of the so-called canon of English Literature have always been rather flexible. With shifts in the criteria of what constitutes classic status, certain names are added and others removed. Much acclaimed literature written in English today is produced beyond the confines of the British Isles. In this cercle de lecture we shall examine works by recent winners of prestigious literary prizes, such as the Booker, who are challenging the canon of English Literature as never before.
14 January : The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro (Booker Prize 1989)