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Introduction (pp. 1-10), The Postmodern Condition (pp. 13-19), “The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism” by Fredric Jameson (pp. 20-39), and “Mapping the Postmodern” by Andreas Huyssen (pp. 59-71), all from Postmodernism and the Contemporary Novel (abbreviated henceforth as Pomo CoNo)
“A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease” by Jonathan Safran Foer (handout in class)
“Coming Sun. Mon. Tues.” by Don DeLillo (handout in class)
WEEK 2 // TECHNOLOGY AND SIMULATION
Tuesday, September 2
White Noise by Don DeLillo, pp. 1-105
“Silhouette City: Hitler, Manson and the Millennium” by Don DeLillo (pp. 344-352) in White Noise
Thursday, September 4
White Noise, pp. 107-163
“Time-Space Compression” by David Harvey (pp. 40-58) in Pomo CoNo
“The Precession of Simulacra” by Jean Baudrillard (pp. 91-109) in Pomo CoNo
Thursday, September 11
“The Last Things before the Last: Notes on White Noise” by John Frow (pp. 417-431) and “The (Super)Marketplace of Images: Television as Unmediated Mediation in DeLillo’s White Noise” by John N. Duvall (pp. 433-455) in White Noise
WEEK 4 // THE POSTMODERN UNCANNY
Tuesday, September 16
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski, Forward, Introduction, and pp. 1-79
“The Uncanny” by Sigmund Freud (Blackboard)
“Discourse in the Novel” by Mikhail Bakhtin (pp. 231-238) in Pomo CoNo
Thursday, September 18
House of Leaves, pp. 584-644, 80-106
“The Literature of Exhaustion” by John Barth (pp. 138-147) in Pomo CoNo