LITERATURE 168 - Postmodernism and Postmodern Fiction

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Claremont McKenna College

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Description:

Staff This course will examine the question of postmodernism through the lens of its fictions, giving particular attention to relationship between literary form and such postmodern conditions as cyberspace, multiculturalism, globalization, and the end of history. Our texts will include short stories and novels-from Borges, Barth, Pynchon, Delillo, Morrison, Hong Kingston, Carter, Gibson, Rushdie, and others-as well as films, visual arts, hypertext, and theory. Offered occasionally.

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1.50

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.claremontmckenna.edu/

Phone Number:

(909) 621-8000

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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