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Date posted: September 2024
| Module Title |
Postmodernism |
| Module Code |
EL401 (ITS) / LIT1038 (Banner) |
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Faculty |
Humanities & Social Sciences |
School |
English |
| Module Co-ordinator | Michael Hinds | | | Module Teachers | Paula Murphy | |
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NFQ level |
8 |
Credit Rating |
5 |
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Pre-requisite |
Not Available |
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Co-requisite |
Not Available |
| Compatibles |
Not Available |
| Incompatibles |
Not Available |
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Coursework Only
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Description
The aim of this module is to introduce students to a range of modernist and postmodernist narrative by Irish, British and American writers of the twentieth century
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Learning Outcomes
1. Describe how postmodermism developed out of modernism and identify its distinguishing features
2. Understand the relationship between postmodernist literature and broad movements in the arts in general
3. Articulate the relationship between postmodern culture and technology
4. Describe the treatment of postmodern concepts in selected postmodern films
5. Discuss the variety of poetic responses to postmodernism
6. Understand the significance of key postmodernist theoretical writings by Barthes, Lyotard and Baudrillard.
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| Workload |
Full-time hours per semester |
| Type |
Hours |
Description |
| Lecture | 24 | No Description | | Independent Study | 54 | reading, researching, analysing | | Seminars | 6 | Screenings and discussions of postmodern films | | Assignment Completion | 40 | Completion of two assignments, the first an in-depth analysis of a specific postmodernist text/ film, the second a description of a postmodernist concept traced through several texts/films. | | Assessment Feedback | 1 | No Description | | Total Workload: 125 |
All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml
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Indicative Content and Learning Activities
Toni MorrisonBelovedDon de LilloWhite NoiseArt SpiegelmanMAUSDonald BarthelmeCity LifeSamuel BeckettFizzlesSpike JonzeHerDavid LynchBlue VelvetGeorge SaundersPastoraliaPostmodern PoetrySound Poetry, Visual/Concrete Poetry, Unoriginality |
| Assessment Breakdown | | Continuous Assessment | 100% | Examination Weight | 0% |
| Course Work Breakdown |
| Type | Description | % of total | Assessment Date |
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| Portfolio | The students will be assessed via a portfolio of responses, containing both an essay relating to key texts and concepts on the module, as well as their contributions to module web forums. | 100% | n/a |
| Reassessment Requirement Type |
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories:
Resit category 1: A resit is available for both* components of the module.
Resit category 2: No resit is available for a 100% continuous assessment module.
Resit category 3: No resit is available for the continuous assessment component where there is a continuous assessment and examination element. |
| * ‘Both’ is used in the context of the module having a Continuous Assessment/Examination split; where the module is 100% continuous assessment, there will also be a resit of the assessment |
| This module is category 1 |
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Indicative Reading List
- Toni Morrison: 1993, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination, Vintage Press, New York,
- Moretti, Franco: 2004, The Novel (2 vols), Princeton, New York,
- Jean Baudrillard: 2002, Selected Writings, Stanford University Press, 978-080474273
- Jean Francois Lyotard: 1984, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, University of Minnesota Press,
- Roland Barthes: 1978, Image, Music, Text, Hill and Wang,
- Paul Hoover: 2013, Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology, W.W. Norton,
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Other Resources
None |
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