{"id":26373,"date":"2016-09-29T16:39:28","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T15:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=26373&lang=en"},"modified":"2019-02-22T13:38:21","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T12:38:21","slug":"architext-in-postmodern-british-literature-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=26373&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Architext in postmodern British literature"},"content":{"rendered":"

Course title<\/strong>: <\/b>Architext in postmodern British literature
\n<\/b>Instructor:<\/strong> Assoc. Prof. Vanja Poli\u0107<\/span>
\n ECTS credits<\/strong>: <\/b>6<\/span>
\n Status:<\/strong> elective<\/span>
\n Semester<\/strong>: <\/b>1st<\/sup> and 3rd<\/sup> semester<\/span>
\n Enrollment requirements:<\/strong> enrollment in the 1st<\/sup> or 3rd<\/sup> semester<\/span><\/p>\n

Course description:<\/strong> The course offers <\/b>an insight into the postmodern British novel with a focus on the dialogue that the postmodern literature sets up with British literary canon. Students will be introduced to different definitions of postmodernism (style or period?) and to key concepts that postmodernism engages with such as the questions of tradition, history, subjectivity and politics. Furthermore, strategies which the postmodern novelists use to question the basic tenets of modernism, such as parody, pastiche, irony, heteroglossia, dialogism, will also be studied. Architext in the course\u2019s title refers to Genette\u2019s \u201cname\u201d for literary genres, i.e. for various durable links between certain modes of enunciation (e.g. narration) and certain thematic concerns. By studying architext Genette arrives at poetics, thus the course will eventually attempt to articulate a poetics of the postmodern British novel.<\/span><\/p>\n

Objectives:<\/strong> To acquaint the students <\/b>with the postmodern British novel and poetics of postmodernism; to make them aware of the continuity of development of British literature through intertextuality, reinscription and reliance of recent literary texts on older canonic texts.<\/span><\/p>\n

Course requirements:<\/strong> the final <\/b>grade is based on continuous assessment<\/span> which includes regular attendance (max. absences allowed: 4), preparation for class, in-class participation, writing small assignments, obligatory sitting for midterm exam and timely submission of the final paper. The paper is worth 35%, midterm exam 40% and other elements of continuous assessment are worth 25% of the final grade. Students must fulfill all elements of continuous assessment.<\/span><\/p>\n

Week by week schedule<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Week 1: general introduction into modernism; basic theories of postmodernism
\nWeek 2: architext (G. Genette)
\nWeek 3: M. Cunningham The Hours<\/i> \u2013 historical contextualization of the template (V. Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway<\/i>) and contemporary intertextual deviations in The<\/i> Hours
\n<\/i>Week 4: M. Cunningham, The Hours<\/i> \u2013 analysis continued
\nWeek 5: Will Self, Dorian<\/i> \u2013 aestheticism and decadence of the template (O. Wilde, The Picture of<\/i> Dorian Gray<\/i>) and hypertext
\nWeek 6: Will Self, Dorian <\/i>\u2013 analysis continued
\nWeek 7: Robinson<\/i> Crusoe<\/i> and British 18th<\/sup> century as hypotext of the postmodern novel
\nWeek 8: Midterm exam<\/span>
\n Academic writing skills (guidelines for writing research paper)
\nWeek 9: Michael Coetzee, Foe<\/i> \u2013 pseudofeminist and postcolonial reinscription of D. Defoe\u2019s Robinson Crusoe
\n<\/i>Week 10: J. Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea <\/em>and C. Bronte’s Jane Eyre<\/em>
\nWeek 11:\u00a0J. Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea <\/em> \u2013 analysis continued
\nWeek 12: Alasdair Gray, Poor Things<\/i> or postmodern Frankenstein<\/i> by M. Shelley
\nWeek 13: Alasdair Gray, Poor Things<\/i> \u2013 analysis continued
\nWeek 14: wrap-up discussion<\/span><\/p>\n

Reading list:<\/strong>
\n– Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
\n<\/i>– Michael Coetzee, Foe
\n<\/i>– Michael Cunningham, The Hours
\n<\/i>– Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
\n<\/i>– Will Self, Dorian<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Critical editions:
\n\u2013 Brian McHale, Postmodernist Fiction, Routledge, 1987 (izbor)
\n\u2013 Mark Currie (ur.), Metafiction, Longman, 1995 (izbor)
\n\u2013 Simon Malpas, The Postmodern, Routledge (the new critical idiom) 2005
\n– G\u00e9rard Genette, The Architext: An Introduction<\/i>, Regents of University of California, 1992
\n– Linda Hutcheon, A Poetics of Postmodernism<\/i>, Routledge, 1988
\n– Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism<\/i>, Verso, 1991
\n– Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Lyotard, \u201c\u201d An Answer to the Question, What is the Postmodern?\u201d in The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge<\/i>, U of Minnesota P, 1984
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

All texts will be made available to the enrolled students in electronic form. Additional materials are received in class.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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