The second half of this course focused on Postmodernism and postmodern literature. For your final, 1500 word, paper, choose a postmodern writer we read in class. Read at least three additional texts by this writer, other than the text required for class. Prove how/why your chosen writer is a postmodernist and how his/her works reflect Postmodern ideology. What topics/subjects presented and what techniques used classify the writer as a postmodernist?
Writers read in class –
MARCH 28: (WEEK 12): Postmodernism: Raymond Carver “Cathedral” (p.1532), Flannery O’Conner “Good Country People” (p.1367), Thomas Pynchon “Entropy” (p.1520)
APR 4: (WEEK 13): Postmodernism: James Baldwin “Going to Meet the Man” (p.1328), Toni Morrison “Recitatif”( p.1429)
APR 11: (WEEK 14): Anne Sexton “Sylvia’s Death” and “Little Girl, My String Bean, My Lovely Woman” (p.11410-1412), Sylvia Plath “Lady Lazarus” and “Daddy” (p.1444, 1447) Audre Lorde “Coal,” “The Woman Thing” “Black Mother Woman” (p.1491-1493)
APR 18: (WEEK 15):): Postmodernism: Allen Ginsberg “Howl” (p.1394)
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