Lyotard's Postmodern condition : Challenging Metanarratives ( Continued )
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Baudrillard,Hyperreality and Postmodern representations
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Baudrillard,Hyperreality and Postmodern representations ( Continued )
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Derrida,Deconstruction and Postmodern texts
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Derrida,Deconstruction and Postmodern texts ( Continued 1)
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Derrida,Deconstruction and Postmodern texts ( Continued 2)
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Intertextuality,Kristeva and the study of Postmodern Texts
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Postmodern Feminism : Gender and Performativity
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Formulation of the Postmodern : Deleuze and Guattari
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Minor Literature' and Postmodern Narratives
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Critiques of Postmodernism : A Marxist Perspective
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Critiques of Postmodernism
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Feminism and Postmodernism
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Situating the Postcolonial in the Postmodern
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Homi K.Bhabha : The Postmodern and the Postcolonial
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"Is the Post-in Postmodernism the Post-in Postcolonial?" : Understanding Appiah
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"Can the Subaltern Speak?" : Deconstructing the Postcolonial
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Reading Postmodern-Postcolonial Fiction
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Hyperreality in Delillo's Postmodernist Fiction : A Discussion of White Noise
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The Garden of Forking Paths : Postmodernist short fiction
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The Garden of Forking Paths : Postmodernist short fiction ( Continued )
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Postmodern Fiction by women : Reading Atwood's The Edible Woman
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Postmodern Fiction by women : Reading Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
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Reading Postmdern Fiction : Slaughterhouse-Five b Kurt Vonnegut
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Reading Postmdern Fiction : The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
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Postmodern Writings : Features,trends and some departures
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Postmodern Writings : Situating Pynchon and the Beat Generation
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Postmodern literature today : Some concluding thoughts
Description:
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Students of English Literature
INDUSTRIES APPLICABLE TO: Only academics
COURSE OUTLINE : This is an eight-week course pitched at the Postgraduate level to provide an overview of a theoretical understanding of the fundamentals of postmodernism in Literature. Through a discussion of seminal texts, key ideas and critical events in the 20th century, the course maps the dominant socio-cultural and literary practices usually labelled as Postmodernism. Ranging from popular culture to particular theories, from literary events to ideological debates, this course attempts to cover a wide variety of topics and frameworks, to enable a critical understanding of Postmodernism in Literature. The course includes the discussion of selected literary texts and engages with various literary critical approaches from different paradigms including Feminism and Postcolonialism.