İDE320

School of Humanities \ English Language and Literature

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Elective

English

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Undergraduate

Postmodern writing is characterized by self-reflexivity, irony, intertextuality, parody and pastiche. The main features and the philosophy of postmodernism will be the focus of the course. Metafiction and historiographical metafiction through Jean Rhys and Peter Ackroyd novels; magical realism as a postmodern literary style will be exemplified through Jeanette Winterson's novel.

Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea (1966); Peter Ackroyd's Chatterton (1987); Jeanette Winterson's Passion (1997)
Linda Hutcheon A Poetics of Postmodernism
Tim Woods Beginning Postmodernism

The aim of this course is to analyze postmodern fiction, which began after the Second World War under the influence of post-structuralism. to introduce students to the world.

1. To have sufficient knowledge about postmodernism
2. To learn the different types of writing that emerged with postmodernism
3. Develop a critical approach to meta-narratives
4. Analyzing a postmodern novel

Week 1: Social, political and literary background of the 1960s
Week 2: The rise of postmodern writing, its opposition to tradition and realism, the concept of metafiction.
Week 3: Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
Week 4: Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
Week 5: Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
Week 6: Midterm & Peter Ackroyd's Chatterton (1987)
Week 7: Midterm & Peter Ackroyd's Chatterton (1987)
Week 8: Midterm & Peter Ackroyd's Chatterton (1987)
Week 9: Magical realism & Jeanette Winterson, Passion (1997)
Week 10: Magical realism & Jeanette Winterson, Passion (1997)
Week 11: Magical realism & Jeanette Winterson, Passion (1997)
Week 12: Magical realism & Jeanette Winterson, Passion (1997)

• Midterm 30 %
• Final 40 %
• Homework 30 %