The History of English Literature and Civilisation - Postmodernism

C1. Exploring postmodernism 1.1 Postmodernity vs. postmodernism 1.2 Postmodernism: definitions 1.3 Postmodernism: representative authors C2. Exploring postmodernism 2.1 Postmodernism: literary genres 2.2 The postmodern novel 2.3 Postmodern narrative strategies 3. Telling tales about history 3.1 History and / or fiction in postmodern understanding 3.2 Historiographic metafiction 3.3 Representative authors 4. Fictional Unreliability 4.1 Non-credible narration: definition and examples 4.2 The non-credible narrative and the postmodern novel 4.3 Types of non-credible narrators C5. Postmodern fairy tales 5.1 The story addressed to multiple readers 5.2 The role of intertextuality 5.3 The historical context 6. Defamiliarizing the familiar 6.1 Illustrations in the postmodern novel 6.2 Postmodern poetry 6.3 Compositional strategies 7. The “academic novel” 7.1 Characteristics of the British academic novel 7.2 Representatives 7.3 Literary and cultural context 8. Between modernism and postmodernism: Samuel Beckett 8.1 The modernist and the postmodernist theater 8.2 Beckett between modernism and postmodernism 8.3 Postmodern elements in Beckett's prose C9. The post-modern novel? 9.1 Arguments for / against overcoming postmodernism 9.2 Yann Martel, Life of Pi 9.3 Postmodern Elements in Life of Pi 10. Exploring postcolonialism 10.1 The historical context 10.2 The cultural context 10.3 Theoreticians of post-colonialism C11. The Empire re-writes 11.1 Favorite topics of postcolonial literature 11.2 Double identity 11.3 Cultural alienation, multiculturalism 12. The Essay 12.1 Metafiction: definition 12.2 Illustrations in the postmodern novel 12.3 Metafiction in literature and cinematography C13. Postmodernity - synthesis 13.1 Representatives 13.2 Representative novels 13.3 Representative characters 13.4. Literary techniques C14. Course retrospective

Students should be able, after completing the course, to formulate a professional point of view on the literary phenomenon, starting from the analysis of original literary texts and the positions expressed in texts of criticism and literary history in the specialized bibliography