Module Identifier | ENM3120 | ||||||||
Module Title | POSTMODERN AMERICAN FICTIONS | ||||||||
Academic Year | 2003/2004 | ||||||||
Co-ordinator | Professor Timothy S Woods | ||||||||
Semester | Semester 2 | ||||||||
Other staff | Professor Timothy S Woods | ||||||||
Course delivery | Seminars / Tutorials | Seminar - 2 hours per week | |||||||
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1. Semiotic Cities
Thomas Pynchon, "The Crying of Lot 49" (1966)
2. The Fate of Comedy
Kurt Vonnegut, "Slaughterhouse Five" (1969)
See also: the novels of John Irving and Richard Brautigan
3. America's Vietnam
Bobbie Ann Mason, "In Country" (1987)
Tim O'Brien, "The Things They Carried" (1990)
See also: Stephen Wright, "Meditations in Green" (1985); Norman Mailer, "Why Are We In Vietnam" (1967); Robert Stone, "Dog Soliders" (1975); Tim O'Brien, "Going After Cacciato" (1978); and "Apocalypse Now", "The Deer Hunter", "Full Metal Jacket", "Dog Soldiers", "Tracks"
4. Depletion and Regression: Language and Representation
Kathy Acker, "Eurydice in the Underworld" (1984)
See also: Paul Auster, "The New York Trilogy" (1987); Steve Erickson, "Rubicon Beach" (1986)
5. Things Falling Apart
Don DeLillo, "Mao II" (1985)
See also: Richard Ford, "The Sportswriter" (1986); William Gaddis, "Carpenter's Gothic" (1986)
This module is at CQFW Level 7