Module Identifier | ENM4120 | ||
Module Title | METAFICTIONAL EXPERIMENTS IN THE POSTMODERN NOVEL | ||
Academic Year | 2002/2003 | ||
Co-ordinator | To Be Arranged | ||
Semester | Intended for use in future years | ||
Next year offered | N/A | ||
Next semester offered | N/A | ||
Other staff | Professor Lyn Pykett, Dr Timothy S Woods | ||
Course delivery | Seminars / Tutorials | Seminar. 2 hours per week | |
Assessment | Semester Assessment | Essay: 1 x 5,000 word essay |
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