| Module Identifier |
ENM4120 |
| Module Title |
METAFICTIONAL EXPERIMENTS IN THE POSTMODERN NOVEL |
| Academic Year |
2005/2006 |
| Co-ordinator |
Dr William G Slocombe |
| Semester |
Semester 2 |
| Other staff |
Professor Lyn Pykett, Professor Timothy S Woods |
| Course delivery |
Seminars / Tutorials | Seminar. 2 hours per week |
| Assessment |
| Assessment Type | Assessment Length/Details | Proportion |
|---|
| Semester Assessment | Essay: 1 x 5,000 word essay | |
| Supplementary Assessment | Resubmit any failed elements and/or make good any missing elements. Where this involves re-submission of work, a new topic must be selected. | |
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Learning outcomes
On completion of this module, students should be able to:
1. demonstrate a knowledge of the issues associated with postmodernism in relation to contemporary British literature;
2. demonstrate an ability to employ this specialist knowledge in an extended critical and analytical essay;
3. demonstrate an ability to perform comparative critical analysis at an advanced level of research.
Aims
Brief description
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.
Content
SEMINAR PROGRAMME
Seminar 1: Fiction and Postmodernity
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Linda Hutcheon, The Politics of Postmodernism
Seminar 2: The Construction of Postmodern Spaces
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Angela Carter, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972)
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Angela Carter, The Passion of New Eve (1977)
Seminar 3: Postmodernist Histories
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Graham Swift, Waterland (1983)
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Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry (1989)
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Julian Barnes, The History of the World in Ten and a Half Chapters (1989)
Seminar 4: Rewriting Fictions
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Donald Barthelme, Snow White (1967)
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John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969)
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Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber (1979)
Seminar 5: Race and Postermodernism
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Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses (1988), OR
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Toni Morrison, Jazz (1992)
Reading Lists
Books
** Should Be Purchased
Linda Hutcheon (2002) The Politics of Postmodernism
Routledge
Angela Carter (1994) The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
Penguin
Angela Carter (1982) The Passion of New Eve
Virago
Angela Carter (1995) The Bloody Chamber
Vintage
John Fowles (1998) The French Lieutenant's Woman
Vintage
Donald Barthelme (1996) Snow White
Prentice Hall
Salman Rushdie (1994) The Satanic Verses
Vintage
Toni Morrison (2000) Jazz
Vintage
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 7