| Course title | Modern British Fiction | 
        
            | Instructor | Zhaoxia Bu | 
        
            | Instructor’s profile | Ph.D. of Literature Associate Professor Research Field: English Novels, Comparative literature | 
        
            | Course goals | The course is to get the students familiar with major British writers of the 20th century. | 
        
            | Topics | Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf and Kazuo Ishguro | 
        
            | Assessment | Term paper 50%   Class performance 50% | 
        
            | Reference books | Heart of Darkness, Women in Love, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, A Pale View of Hills. | 
        
            | Working language | English | 
        
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