Module Identifier |
ENM4120 |
Module Title |
METAFICTIONAL EXPERIMENTS IN THE POSTMODERN NOVEL |
Academic Year |
2006/2007 |
Co-ordinator |
Dr William G Slocombe |
Semester |
Semester 2 |
Other staff |
Professor Timothy S Woods, Professor Lyn Pykett |
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
Auster, Paul (1987.) The New York Trilogy
Faber 0571152236
Auster, Paul (2006.) Travels in the Scriptorium
Faber 0571232558
Barnes, Julian (1990) A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
Picador 0330313991
Carter, Angela (1982) The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
Penguin 0140056513
Carter, Angela (1982) The Passion of New Eve
Virago 0860683419
Rushdie, Salman (1988) The Satanic Verses
Viking 0670825379
Swift, Graham (1992) Waterland
Picador 0330323504
** Recommended Text
Currie, Mark, ed. (1995) Metafiction
Longman 058221291X
Hutcheon, Linda (1989) The Politics of Postmodernism
Routledge 0415039924
Waugh, Patricia (1988) Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction
Routledge 0416326404
** Supplementary Text
Barthelme, Donald (1968) Snow White
Bantam Books
Carter, Angela (1981) The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Penguin 0140128379
Danielewski, Mark Z. (2000) House of Leaves
Anchor 1862301107
Fowles, John (1987) The French Lieutenant's Woman
Pan 0330298119
Morrison, Toni (1992) Jazz
Chatto & Windus 0701134496
** Recommended Background
Christensen, Inger (1981) The Meaning of Metafiction: A Critical Study of Selected Novels by Sterne, Nabokov, Barth and Beckett
Universitets forlaget 8200056929
Hutcheon, Linda (1984) Narcissistic Narrative: The Metafictional Paradox
Methuen 041637140X
Scholes, Robert (1979) Fabulation and Metafiction
University of Illinois Press 0252007042
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 7