Course Name: Postmodern Fiction
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<br>Course Description: The course will be devoted to reading and discussing works that are either generally considered as a postmodernist fiction or perhaps simply written after the great Modernist era. The term “Postmodern” and “Postmodernism” will be examined and explored along with the reading and discussion. Students are advised to finish reading the required texts in advance. 
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<br>Required Texts
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<br>Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road 
<br>Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49 
<br>Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse 5
<br>Martin Amis, Time’s Arrow
<br>Ian McEwan, Atonement
<br>Salman Rushdie, The Enchantress of Florence 
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<br>Additional Readings (References)
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<br>    Connor, Steven. (1989). Postmodernist Culture: An Introduction to Theories of the Contemporary (2nd edition). Blackwell. 
<br>    Docherty, Thomas. Ed. (1993). Postmodernism: A Reader. Columbia UP. 
<br>    Hutcheon, Linda. (1988). A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction. Routledge. 
<br>    Kermode, Frank. (1966). The Sense of An Ending. Oxford UP. 
<br>    Waugh, Patricia. (1992). Practising Postmodernism/Reading Modernism. Arnold. 
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<br>Syllabus
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<br>Session 1:  Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road
<br>The Domestic Dilemma
<br>            Comparison with Modernist Awakening
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<br>Session 2:  Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road
<br>            Identity Crisis vs. Death of the Subject
<br>Session 3: Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road
<br>Session 4: Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
<br>            What is the “Message”? 
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<br>Session 5: Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
<br>            Inside out of a story
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<br>Session 6: Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49 
<br>            Entropy 
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<br>Session 7: Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
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<br>Session 8: Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse 5
<br>              The “Reality” 
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<br>Session 9: Midterm 
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<br>Session 10:  Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse 5
<br>              Writer, Narrator, Storyteller, or Character?
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<br>Session 11: Martin Amis, Time’s Arrow
<br>              Time and Fiction
<br>Session 12: Martin Amis, Time’s Arrow
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<br>Session 13: Ian McEwan, Atonement
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<br>Session 14: Ian McEwan, Atonement
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<br>Session 15: Ian McEwan, Atonement
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<br>Session 16: Salman Rushdie, The Enchantress of Florence
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<br>Session 17: Salman Rushdie, The Enchantress of Florence
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<br>Session 18: Final 
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<br>Grading
<br>Attendance and Participation 30%
<br>Midterm 30%         Final 40% 
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