Course : American Novel from the 1960s Onwards
Course code : ENL601
Course Outline
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Week 1 |
General Introduction and Overview. American Culture and Literature after the IIWW + From modernity to postmodernity Fredric Jameson, “Theories of the Postmodern,” Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (pp. 54-64) |
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Week 2 |
The Cold War at the dawn of the 1960s Thomas Pynchon, Crying of Lot 49 Chapters 1-3 |
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Week 3 |
Thomas Pynchon, Crying of Lot 49 (to the end) |
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Week 4 |
John Barth, “The Literature of Exhaustion” Brian McHale, “From Modernist to Postmodernist Fiction,” Postmodernist Fiction (3-25) Baudrillard, America (extracts) |
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| Week 5 | Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughter House 5 (1969) | |
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Week 6 |
Slaughter House 5 (cont.)
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Week 7 |
The Intersection of Race and Gender in the 1980s Novel Toni Morrison, Beloved (1987) |
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Week 8 |
Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark (in docs) "Beloved": Reception History (in links) |
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Week 9 |
Toni Morrison, Beloved (con.) |
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Week 10 Week 11 |
Jeffrey Eugenides, "Extreme Solitude" (2010) Eugenides, "Bronze" (2108)
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Week 12 |
Post-apocalyptic Fictions Cormac McCarthy, The Road [text+ film] |
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Week 13 |
Conclusion |
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