Postmodernism in Literature Training Provided by University of NPTEL and Indian Institute of Technology Madras
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Introduction Part-1.
Introduction Part-2.
Introduction Part-3.
The Genealogy of Postmodernism.
The Genealogy of Postmodernism : Locating the starting points.
The Death of the author and it's Postmodern implications.
The Death of the author and it's Postmodern implications ( Continued 1).
The Death of the author and it's Postmodern implications ( Continued 2).
What is an Author ?.
What is an Author ? ( Continued ).
Postmodern Theories and Frameworks : An Outline.
Lyotard's Postmodern condition : Challenging Metanarratives.
Lyotard's Postmodern condition : Challenging Metanarratives ( Continued ).
Baudrillard,Hyperreality and Postmodern representations.
Baudrillard,Hyperreality and Postmodern representations ( Continued ).
Derrida,Deconstruction and Postmodern texts.
Derrida,Deconstruction and Postmodern texts ( Continued 1).
Derrida,Deconstruction and Postmodern texts ( Continued 2).
Intertextuality,Kristeva and the study of Postmodern Texts.
Postmodern Feminism : Gender and Performativity.
Formulation of the Postmodern : Deleuze and Guattari.
Minor Literature' and Postmodern Narratives.
Critiques of Postmodernism : A Marxist Perspective.
Critiques of Postmodernism.
Feminism and Postmodernism.
Situating the Postcolonial in the Postmodern.
Homi K.Bhabha : The Postmodern and the Postcolonial.
"Is the Post-in Postmodernism the Post-in Postcolonial?" : Understanding Appiah.
"Can the Subaltern Speak?" : Deconstructing the Postcolonial.
Reading Postmodern-Postcolonial Fiction.
Hyperreality in Delillo's Postmodernist Fiction : A Discussion of White Noise.
The Garden of Forking Paths : Postmodernist short fiction.
The Garden of Forking Paths : Postmodernist short fiction ( Continued ).
Postmodern Fiction by women : Reading Atwood's The Edible Woman.
Postmodern Fiction by women : Reading Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.
Reading Postmdern Fiction : Slaughterhouse-Five b Kurt Vonnegut.
Reading Postmdern Fiction : The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles.
Postmodern Writings : Features,trends and some departures.
Postmodern Writings : Situating Pynchon and the Beat Generation.Postmodern literature today : Some concluding thoughts.
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.
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