Postmodern Literature
7.5 credits
Reading list, Master's level, 5EN466
Main group 1
Primary material
- Barnes, Julian, Flaubert's parrot, London, Vintage Books, 2012Compulsory
- Byatt, A. S., Possession: a romance, New York, Modern Library, 2001Compulsory
- Coetzee, J. M., Foe, Penguin, 2015Compulsory
- Doctorow, E. L., The book of Daniel, London, Abacus, 2015Compulsory
- Fowles, John, The French lieutenant's woman, Future classics limited ed., London, Vintage, 2005Compulsory
- Gass, William H., Willie Master's Lonesome WifeCompulsory
- Markson, David, Wittgenstein's mistress, 2nd pbk. ed., Normal, IL, Dalkey Archive Press, 1995Compulsory
- Pynchon, Thomas, The crying of lot 49, 1st Harper Perennial modern classics ed., New York, Harper Perennial, 2006, c1966Compulsory
- Winterson, Jeanette, The passion, London, Vintage Books, 2014Compulsory
Films:
Miranda July, Me and You and Everyone We Know
Spike Jonze & Charlie Kaufman, Adaptation
Secondary Reading
- Hutcheon, Linda, A Poetics of Postmodernism, London, Routledge, 2004
- McHale, Brian, Postmodernist Fiction, London, Routledge, 1996
* Compulsory