{"id":5,"date":"2009-01-16T11:47:05","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T16:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2009\/660\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2009-04-15T13:33:46","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T18:33:46","slug":"course-calendar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2009\/660\/?page_id=5","title":{"rendered":"Course Calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>WEEK 1 \/\/ JANUARY 21<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Deducing Postmodernism<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>WEEK 2 \/\/ JANUARY 28<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Cage, John. &#8220;Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) Continued, 1970-71.&#8221; <em>New Literary History <\/em>3.1 (1971): 201-214.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/468388\">http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/468388<\/a> (on-campus link)<\/li>\n<li>Hassan, Ihab. &#8220;POSTmodernISM.&#8221; <em>New Literary History <\/em>3.1 (1971): 5-30. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/468378\">http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/468378<\/a> (on-campus link)<\/li>\n<li>Selected Short Stories<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>WEEK 3 \/\/ FEBRUARY 4<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Thomas Pynchon, <em>The Crying of Lot 49<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Holquist, Michael. &#8220;Whodunit and Other Questions: Metaphysical Detective Stories in Post-War Fiction.&#8221; <em>New Literary History <\/em>3.1 (1971): 135-156. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/468384\">http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/468384<\/a> (on-campus link)<\/li>\n<li>Jameson, Fredic. &#8220;Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism.&#8221; <em>New Left Review <\/em>146 (1984): 59-92. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newleftreview.org.mutex.gmu.edu\/?view=726\">http:\/\/www.newleftreview.org.mutex.gmu.edu\/?view=726<\/a> (on-campus link)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>WEEK 4 \/\/ FEBRUARY 11<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Ursula Le Guin, <em>The Lathe of Heaven<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Harvey, David. <em>The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change<\/em>. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989, pp. 39-65. (<a href=\"http:\/\/furbo.gmu.edu\/cgi-bin\/ers\/OSCRgen.cgi\">e-reserve<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>WEEK 5 \/\/ FEBRUARY 18<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> Foucault, Michel. \u201cOf Other Spaces.\u201d Trans. Jay Miskowiec. <em>Diacritics <\/em>16.1 (1986): 22-27. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/464648\">http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/464648<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Baudrillard, Jean. &#8220;Simulations and Simulacra&#8221; from <em>Selected Writings<\/em>. Ed. Mark Poster. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1988, pp. 166-184 (<a href=\"http:\/\/furbo.gmu.edu\/cgi-bin\/ers\/OSCRgen.cgi\">e-reserve<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Mark Z. Danielewksi, <em>House of Leaves<\/em>, Forward, Introduction, and pp. 1-79<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>WEEK 6 \/\/ FEBRUARY 25<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Continue <em>House of Leaves<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>WEEK 7 \/\/ MARCH 4<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Finish <em>House of Leaves<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Hansen, Mark B. N. &#8220;The Digital Topography of Mark Z. Danielewski&#8217;s <em>House of Leaves<\/em>.&#8221; <em>Contemporary Literature <\/em>45.4 (2004): 597-636.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu.mutex.gmu.edu\/journals\/contemporary_literature\/v045\/45.4hansen.html\">http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu.mutex.gmu.edu\/journals\/contemporary_literature\/v045\/45.4hansen.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2009\/660\/?page_id=243\">Mid-semester Project<\/a> Due<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>WEEK 8 \/\/ MARCH 11 (SPRING BREAK)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>No class<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>WEEK 9 \/\/ MARCH 18<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Joanna Russ, <em>The Female Man<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Haraway, Donna. &#8220;A Manifesto for Cyborgs&#8221; from <em>Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature<\/em>. New York: Routledge, 1991, pp. 149-181. (<a href=\"http:\/\/furbo.gmu.edu\/cgi-bin\/ers\/OSCRgen.cgi\">e-reserve<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>WEEK 10 \/\/ MARCH 25<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> Toni Morrison, <em>Beloved<\/em><\/li>\n<li> Davis, Kimberly Chabot. &#8220;&#8221;Postmodern Blackness&#8221;: Toni Morrison&#8217;s <em>Beloved <\/em>and the End of History.&#8221; <em>Twentieth Century Literature <\/em>44.2 (1998): 242-260. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org.mutex.gmu.edu\/stable\/441873\">http:\/\/www.jstor.org.mutex.gmu.edu\/stable\/441873<\/a> (on-campus link)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>WEEK 11 \/\/ APRIL 1<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> Don DeLillo, <em>Mao II<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em> <\/em>Osteen, Mark. &#8220;Becoming Incorporated: Spectacular Authorship and DeLillo&#8217;s <em>Mao II<\/em>.&#8221; <em>Modern Fiction Studies <\/em>45.3 (1999): 643-668. <a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu.mutex.gmu.edu\/journals\/modern_fiction_studies\/v045\/45.3osteen.html\">http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu.mutex.gmu.edu\/journals\/modern_fiction_studies\/v045\/45.3osteen.html<\/a> (on-campus link)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>WEEK 12 \/\/ APRIL 8<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> Lev Manovich, <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/6f4xq3\">Database as a Genre of New Media<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/6f4xq3\"> <\/a>Jason Nelson, <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/rcgcc\">Weather Visualizer<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/6hk58u\">Conversation<\/a><\/li>\n<li> Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wefeelfine.org\/\">We Feel Fine<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Jonathan Harris, <a href=\"http:\/\/thewhalehunt.org\/\">The Whale Hunt<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2009\/660\/?page_id=514\">Annotated Bibliography<\/a> Due<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>WEEK 13 \/\/ APRIL 15<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> Karen Tei Yamashita, <em>Tropic of Orange<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em> <\/em>Adams, Rachel. &#8220;The Ends of America, the Ends of Postmodernism.&#8221; <em>Twentieth Century Literature <\/em>53.3 (2007): 248-272. <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/75te98\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/75te98<\/a> (on-campus link)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>WEEK 14 \/\/ APRIL 22<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> Salvador Plascencia, <em>The People of Paper<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em> <\/em>Flores, Angel. &#8220;Magical Realism in Spanish American Fiction.&#8221; <em>Hispania <\/em>38.2 (1955): 187-192. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/335812\">http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/335812<\/a> (on-campus link)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>WEEK 15 \/\/ APRIL 29<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> Art Spiegelman, <em>In the Shadow of No Towers<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em> <\/em>Anthony Lapp\u00e9 and Dan Goldman, <em>Shooting War<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><em> <\/em>WEEK 16 \/\/ MAY 6<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2009\/660\/?page_id=659\">Final Paper<\/a> due<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEEK 1 \/\/ JANUARY 21 Deducing Postmodernism WEEK 2 \/\/ JANUARY 28 Cage, John. &#8220;Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) Continued, 1970-71.&#8221; New Literary History 3.1 (1971): 201-214. http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/468388 (on-campus link) Hassan, Ihab. &#8220;POSTmodernISM.&#8221; New Literary History 3.1 (1971): 5-30. http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/468378 (on-campus link) Selected Short Stories WEEK 3 \/\/ &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2009\/660\/?page_id=5\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Course Calendar<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2009\/660\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2009\/660\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2009\/660\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2009\/660\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2009\/660\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2009\/660\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2009\/660\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2009\/660\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}