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Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025

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Date posted: September 2024

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Module Title
Module Code (ITS)
Faculty School
Module Co-ordinatorSemester 1: Michael Hinds
Semester 2: Michael Hinds
Autumn: Michael Hinds
Module TeachersMichael Hinds
NFQ level 8 Credit Rating
Pre-requisite Not Available
Co-requisite Not Available
Compatibles Not Available
Incompatibles Not Available
Coursework Only
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

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.



Workload Full-time hours per semester
Type Hours Description
Lecture24No Description
Independent Study54reading, researching, analysing
Seminars6Screenings and discussions of postmodern films
Assignment Completion40Completion 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 Feedback1No 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

Indicative Content and Learning Activities

Toni Morrison
Beloved

Don de Lillo
White Noise

Art Spiegelman
MAUS

Donald Barthelme
City Life

Samuel Beckett
Fizzles

Spike Jonze
Her

David Lynch
Blue Velvet

George Saunders
Pastoralia

Postmodern Poetry
Sound Poetry, Visual/Concrete Poetry, Unoriginality

Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment% Examination Weight%
Course Work Breakdown
TypeDescription% of totalAssessment Date
PortfolioThe 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
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,
Other Resources

None

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