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Postmodern Literature and Culture (EL 449W, Fall 2011) EL 449 Wiki - Author/PoMo Links - Site Menu - FJ Contact/Home Books to buy are linked to Amazon.com pages. Recommended Book: The MLA Handbook (6th Edition!!) Recommended Book: They Say / I Say Midterm Review Slides Final Exam Review Slides SCHEDULE Jump to: Week 1 - Week 2 - Week 3 - Week 4 - Week 5 - Week 6 - Week 7 Week 8 - Week 9 - Week 10 - Week 11 - Week 12 - Week 13 - Week 14 - Week 15 Week 1 (Sept. 7 and 9) Due Friday, Class Time: Self Intro on Wiki Day 1: No Class Yet Day 2: Course Introduction Day 3: Postmodern Debates: Introduction (Simon Malpas) "PoMo and Consumer Society" (Fredric Jameson) "Answering the Question: What is PoMo?" (Jean-Francois Lyotard) Related Links: Viral Videos Where Metanarrative Rules Are Broken
Joaquin Phoenix on Letterman
Ben Konop in Cleveland Jon Stewart on Crossfire "Stop Boring Hugh Laurie" (Just Pointing Out Metanarrative Phenomena) Related Links Happy Days Theme
Fonz and the Happy Days Gang Week 2 (Sept. 12, 14, and 16) Day 1: Jorge Luis Borges and Wallace Stevens (Selections) "Tlon: Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" (Borges) (On Bb) "The Library of Babel" (Borges) (On Bb) "On Exactitude in Science" (Borges) (On Bb) "Borges and I" (Borges) (On Bb) "Anecdote of the Jar" (Stevens) "Metaphors of a Magnifico" (Stevens) Day 2: John Barth Readings "Lost in the Funhouse" (On Bb)
"Frame Story" (Read in Class; Need Scissors and Tape) Day 3: "The Literature of Replenishment" (John Barth) Week 3 (Sept. 19, 21, and 23) Due Monday (by Class Time): Claim Author on Wiki Due Friday (in Class): Proof of ILL Use Due Friday, 5:00 pm: Critical Response #1 (Borges, Barth, or Slaughterhouse) Day 1: Slaughterhouse Five (Kurt Vonnegut), Chapters 1-4 Day 2: Slaughterhouse, Chapters 5-6 Day 3: Slaughterhouse, Chapters 7-10 Week 4 (Sept. 26, 28, and 30) Day 1: Postmodern Debates ("Representation and Reality") "The Gulf War: Is It Really Happening?" (Jean Baudrillard) "Deconstruction and Actuality" (Jacques Derrida) Day 2: Continued Day 3: TBA Additional Readings/Catch Up Week 5 (Oct. 3, 5, and 7) Due Monday, 5:00 pm: Notes / Research Update (Author Inquiry Project) Day 1: The Crying of Lot 49 (Thomas Pynchon), Chapters 1-3 Day 2: Lot 49, Chapters 4-5 Day 3: Lot 49, 6 + Peruse the Lot 49 Wiki Related Link Rives on 4 AM
Week 6 (Oct. 10, 12, and 14) Due Friday, 5:00 pm: Critical Response #2 (Lot 49, Delillo) Day 1: "Midnight in Dostoevsky" (Don Delillo) Day 2: "The Airborne Toxic Event" (from White Noise) (Don Delillo) Day 3: TBA Additional Readings/Catch Up, inc. the bits about Google in this William Gibson interview + "Google's Earth," a Gibson piece on Google. Week 7 (Oct. 17, 19, and 21) Due Monday, 5:00 pm: Author Inquiry Project (Extensions Negotiable) Midterm is Friday! Day 1: Postmodern Debates ("Marxism, Ideology, and the Postmodern") "Ideology, Discourse and the Problems of 'Post-Marxism'" (Terry Eagleton) "We Anti-Representationalists" (Richard Rorty) Day 2: Continued Day 3: MIDTERM Week 8 (Oct. 24, 26, and 28) Day 1: The America Play (Suzan-Lori Parks) Day 2: Essays + "Pickling" (Suzan-Lori Parks) Day 3: NO CLASS: Fall Break Week 9 (Oct. 31, Nov. 2 and 4) Due Friday, 5:00 pm: Initial Claim for Critical Analysis (Critical Analysis) Day 1: NO CLASS: Fall Break Day 2: "Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom" (Suzan-Lori Parks) Day 3: Hypertexts: Week 10 (Nov. 7, 9, and 11) Due Friday, 5:00 pm: Critical Response #3 (Parks, Joyce, Morrisey, Loon Lake) Week 11 (Nov. 14, 16, and 18) Due Monday, 5:00 pm: Initial Claim for Critical Analysis (Critical Analysis) Due Monday, Class Time: Middle Paragraph (Critical Analysis) Due Friday, 5:00 pm: Middle Paragraph Critique + Middle Paragraph Critiqued Day 1: Postmodern Debates
(“Postmodernity, Identity, Gender” + 'The Postcolonial and the
Postmodern) "Postmodernism and Feminisms" (Linda Hutcheon) "Gender Trouble: From Parody to Politics" (Judith Butler) Day 2: Continued: "Crises in Legitimation: Crossing the Great Voids" (Alice A. Jardine) "Postmodern Blackness" (bell hooks) Day 3: Continued: "Locations of Culture: The Postcolonial and the PoMo" (Homi K. Bhabha) Week 12 (Nov. 21, 23, and 25) Due Monday, Class Time: Middle Paragraph (Critical Analysis) Due Before Break: Middle Paragraph Critique + Middle Paragraph Critiqued Day 1: Faculty Panel on “Epistemic Humility,” Details TBA Days 2 -3: Thanksgiving Break Week 13 (Nov. 28 and 30, Dec. 2) Due Friday, 5:00 pm: Critical Analysis Day 1: Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov) (Forward, 130 Lines, Assoc. Commentary) Day 2: Pale Fire (Finish Canto 2 + Assoc.Commentary) Day 3: Pale Fire (The Rest of It) Week 14 (Dec. 5, 7, and 9) Due Monday, Class Time: Any Critical Response REVISIONS (See Guidelines) Due Friday, 5:00 pm: Critical Response #4 (Pale Fire, New York Trilogy) Day 1: City of Glass (from The New York Trilogy) (Paul Auster) Day 2: Ghosts (from The New York Trilogy) Day 3: The Locked Room (from The New York Trilogy) Week 15 (Dec. 12 + Dec. 15) Day 1: Final Meeting, Reading TBA FINAL: Thursday, December 15, 10:30-12:30 am Email Dr. Johnson Simple Site Menu | ||