Module Identifier | ENM4120 | ||
Module Title | METAFICTIONAL EXPERIMENTS IN THE POSTMODERN NOVEL | ||
Academic Year | 2000/2001 | ||
Semester | Semester 2 | ||
Other staff | Dr Timothy Woods, Professor Lyn Pykett | ||
Course delivery | Seminar | 2 hours per week | |
Assessment | Essay | 1 x 5,000 word essay |
Content
This option will focus on postmodern experiments within the genre of the English-language novel in both contemporary British and American writing, and specifically at the way in which history is reconfigured, rewritten, and reshaped, as it increasingly becomes the critical site of the formation of cultural identity. The range of novels will embrace formal experimentation, challenges to the modes of representation traditionally associated with the novel, and a concern with the gender and racial implications of postmodernism in the novel.
1. Fiction and Postmodernity
Linda Hutcheson, The Politics of Postmodernism
2. The Construction of Postmodern Spaces
Angela Carter, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman, The Passion of New Eve
3. Postmodernist Histories
Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry, Julian Barnes, The History of the World in Ten and a Half Chapters,
Graham Swift, Waterland
4. Rewriting Fictions
Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber, John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman, Donald Barthelme, Snow White
5. Race and Postermodernism
Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses, or Toni Morrison, Jazz