ENG749A: POSTMODERN THEORY AND LITERATURE

Despite its initial origin from non-literary fields as architecture and fine arts and its apparent chronological background of the post-Second World War Europe and America, Postmodernism permeated beyond any historical, geographical, and disciplinary boundaries and has considerable influence on the critical thinking and literary writings of many contemporary writers.  Acquainting the students with the major critical concepts, self-reflexive texts and amorphous themes of Postmodernism, the course aims to explore the usefulness of the term “postmodernism” as a means of approaching contemporary literature.  Thus, this course will offer an advanced introduction to the central concepts of postmodernism by providing an approach to contemporary American, Latin American, European, and Indian (Writing in English) literature.