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Postmodernism in Literature

Prof. Merin Simi Raj · IIT Madras

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About

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.

Intended audience: Students of English Literature

Lectures

Week 1

  1. Introduction Part-1 YouTube
  2. Introduction Part-2 YouTube
  3. Introduction Part-3 YouTube
  4. The Genealogy of Postmodernism YouTube
  5. The Genealogy of Postmodernism : Locating the starting points YouTube

Week 2

  1. The Death of the author and it's Postmodern implications YouTube
  2. The Death of the author and it's Postmodern implications ( Continued) YouTube
  3. The Death of the author and it's Postmodern implications ( Continued) YouTube
  4. What is an Author ? YouTube
  5. What is an Author ? ( Continued ) YouTube

Week 3

  1. Postmodern Theories and Frameworks : An Outline YouTube
  2. Lyotard's Postmodern condition : Challenging Metanarratives YouTube
  3. Lyotard's Postmodern condition : Challenging Metanarratives ( Continued ) YouTube
  4. Baudrillard,Hyperreality and Postmodern representations YouTube
  5. Baudrillard,Hyperreality and Postmodern representations ( Continued ) YouTube

Week 4

  1. Derrida,Deconstruction and Postmodern texts YouTube
  2. Derrida,Deconstruction and Postmodern texts ( Continued ) YouTube
  3. Derrida,Deconstruction and Postmodern texts ( Continued ) YouTube
  4. Intertextuality,Kristeva and the study of Postmodern Texts YouTube
  5. Postmodern Feminism : Gender and Performativity YouTube

Week 5

  1. Formulation of the Postmodern : Deleuze and Guattari YouTube
  2. Minor Literature' and Postmodern Narratives YouTube
  3. Critiques of Postmodernism : A Marxist Perspective YouTube
  4. Critiques of Postmodernism YouTube
  5. Feminism and Postmodernism YouTube

Week 6

  1. Situating the Postcolonial in the Postmodern YouTube
  2. Homi K.Bhabha : The Postmodern and the Postcolonial YouTube
  3. "Is the Post-in Postmodernism the Post-in Postcolonial?" : Understanding Appiah YouTube
  4. "Can the Subaltern Speak?" : Deconstructing the Postcolonial YouTube
  5. Reading Postmodern-Postcolonial Fiction YouTube

Week 7

  1. Hyperreality in Delillo's Postmodernist Fiction : A Discussion of White Noise YouTube
  2. The Garden of Forking Paths : Postmodernist short fiction YouTube
  3. The Garden of Forking Paths : Postmodernist short fiction ( Continued ) YouTube
  4. Postmodern Fiction by women : Reading Atwood's The Edible Woman YouTube
  5. Postmodern Fiction by women : Reading Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale YouTube

Week 8

  1. Reading Postmdern Fiction : Slaughterhouse-Five b Kurt Vonnegut YouTube
  2. Reading Postmdern Fiction : The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles YouTube
  3. Postmodern Writings : Features,trends and some departures YouTube
  4. Postmodern Writings : Situating Pynchon and the Beat Generation YouTube
  5. Postmodern literature today : Some concluding thoughts YouTube

Syllabus and materials

At NPTEL, as the course publishes them.

Credits and licence

Institution
IIT Madras
Department
Humanities and Social Sciences
Teacher
Prof. Merin Simi Raj
Level
Graduate
Language
English
Subjects
Society and politics
Source
NPTEL
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
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