Postmodernism
Prerequisites: Graduate status.
This course investigates "postmodernism" in its various uses--as a literary period, an aesthetic style, an historical moment, a cultural problematic, and a theoretical imperative. The course includes readings in literature and theory as well as other art forms, such as architecture and the graphic arts.
Outcomes: Students will demonstrate their ability to define postmodernism in relation to modernism and postmodernity and to analyze postmodern literature and art through seminar papers, oral presentations, and exams.
This course investigates "postmodernism" in its various uses--as a literary period, an aesthetic style, an historical moment, a cultural problematic, and a theoretical imperative. The course includes readings in literature and theory as well as other art forms, such as architecture and the graphic arts.
Outcomes: Students will demonstrate their ability to define postmodernism in relation to modernism and postmodernity and to analyze postmodern literature and art through seminar papers, oral presentations, and exams.