| Module Identifier | EN33720 | ||
| Module Title | POSTMODERN FICTIONS | ||
| Academic Year | 2000/2001 | ||
| Co-ordinator | Dr Timothy Woods | ||
| Semester | Intended For Use In Future Years | ||
| Next year offered | N/A | ||
| Next semester offered | N/A | ||
| Course delivery | Seminar | 20 Hours 10 x 2 hr seminar workshops | |
| Assessment | Continuous assessment | 2 essays (2,500 words each) | 100% |
| Resit assessment | Resubmit any failed elements and/or make good any missing elements. | ||
Brief description
This course will consider 'postmodernism' in a number of its guises in various genres. It will focus on issues of texutal reflexivity, its connection to 'modernism', whether or not it is a 'style' or historical term. Authors who will be studied will include Pynchon, Auster, Rushdie, the "Language" poets, Carter, Greenaway, William Gibson.