Course aims:

This course introduces students to the approaching of postmodernist literature. Postmodernism, as a cultural, artistic and literary phenomenon, is regarded in its inter-connection with the historical, linguistic, social and cultural background. We focused on the main writers belonging to this period
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Course Entry Requirements:

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Course contents:

Postmodernism. Preliminary considerations. Historical and social background. The literary background. Postmodernist literature. Introduction. Postmodernist novel. Graham Greene, Muriel Spark, David Lodge, Ian McEwan, Michael Ondaatje, Doris Lessing, Angela Carter, Salman Rushdie. Drama: Samuel Becket, John Osborne. Poetry: Philip Larkin.

Teaching methods:

This course is based on ‘hands on’ approach. The students will work both individually and in groups on specific research based on the literary topics.

Learning outcomes:

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Learning outcomes verification and assessment criteria:

Combined oral and written examination, verifying the students’ level of knowledge in the literature studied topic. (50%+50%).

Recommended reading:

Linda Hutcheon, Theorizing the Postmodern: Toward a Poetics, in l. Hutcheon, A Poetics of Postmodernism. History, Theory, Fiction. New York: Routledge, 1992.
Barry Lewis, Posmodernism and Fiction, in B. Lewis, The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism, London: 1998/2005.
Lewis Mac Leod, Do We of Necessity Become Puppets in a Story? Or Narrating the World: on Speech, Silence and Discourse, in J. M. Coetzee’s Foe, in Modern Fiction Studies, 52/1, 2006, pp. 11-18
L. Dolezel, Postmodernist Rewrite, in L. Dolezel, Heterocosmica. Fiction and Possible Worlds, baltimore: The Johns Hopkins UP, 1998.
J. Fowles, Notes on an Unfinished Novel, in The Novel Today, Contemporary Writers on Modern Fiction, M. Bradbury, Glasgow, Fontana, 1989.