Topics:

1. Mathew Arnold and his definition of culture

2. The rise of cultural studies

3. Post-war Britain

4. Representations of Monarchy in British culture

5. Monarchy today and the functions of The Queen

6. The system of government

7. British constitution

8. Class today. Language and the sense of class

9. The history of the British Empire

10. Representations of colonialism in literature

11. Post-war immigration to Great Britain

12. Representations of multiculturalism in British film

13. The visions of Britain in the essays by S. Rusdie and P. Boakye

14. Women's Suffrage

15. Women in British Culture

16. Cultural Politics and British Art

Reading List:

1. Aspects of British Culture

2. J. Paxman, The English. A Portrait of People, ch .3,4, 6, 10.

3. R. Kipling, “The White Man's Burden”

4. Ch. Achebe Things Fall Apart

5. S. Rushdie “The New Empire within Britain”

6. P. Boakye “Darker Than Blue: Black British Experience of Home and Abroad”

7. V. Larminie “Women in the OdoNB”

8. M. Szemberg, „Co widać w sztuce”

9. “Freeze: 20 years on”

10. “The Thatcher Years: Arts”

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