Course Structure and Prescribed Texts

Paper 1 (Written off in June)

SECTION A: NARRATIVE THEORY

• S. Rimmon Kenan. Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics (Routledge).

SECTION B: PRESCRIBED TEXTS

• Jorge Luis Borges. Labyrinths (Penguin Books).
• Thomas Mann. Death in Venice and other stories (Vintage) (Only Death in Venice).
• Franz Kafka. In the Penal Colony and Other Stories (Scribner Paperback Fiction).
• A.C. Jordan. The Wrath of the Ancestors (AD Donker Publishers).
• Umberto Eco. The Name of the Rose (Harvest Books).

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Paper 2 (Written off in November)

SECTION A: THE RISE OF CONTEMPORARY FICTIONAL FORMS

• South African literature
• Aspects of the novel and short stories from proto-novelistic forms in ancient and medieval literatures to realism, modernism, and postmodernism.

SECTION B: PRESCRIBED TEXTS

• Etienne van Heerden. Ancestral Voices (Allison & Busby).
• Milan Kundera. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Faber).
• Tahar Ben Jelloun. The Sand Child (Johns Hopkins University Press).
• Mo Yan. Shifu, you’ll do aything for a laugh (Arcade Publishing).
• Wilma Stockenström. The Expedition to the Baobab Tree (Faber).

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