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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : English

106-247/347 Postmodernism

Credit Points:

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator:

David Bennett

Timetable:

Semester 1

Contact:

Two 1.5-hour seminars per week

Subject Description:

An introduction to the major theories of postmodernism as a cultural and aesthetic category and postmodernity as a socio-historical concept, demonstrating their application to critical analysis of literature, cinema, television and architecture. Students completing this subject will have a general familiarity with the philosophical, aesthetic and political debates that have surrounded the concept of postmodernism, and will be able to apply this knowledge in the interpretation of specific cultural practices and artifacts.

Assessment:

Written work of not more than 5000 words.

Prescribed Texts:

Course reader available from the department. Any edition of the following texts is acceptable.

  • W Abish, In the Future Perfect
  • K Acker, Great Expectations
  • R Appignanesi and C Garratt, Postmodernism for Beginners
  • I Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
  • D DeLillo, White Noise
  • E L Doctorow, The Book of Daniel
  • S Rushdie, Shame
  • R Sterling ed, Mirrorshades
  • T Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
  • K Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
  • Films: O Stone, Natural Born Killers
  • P Verhoeven, Total Recall
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