Postmodernism and Beyond: American Prose 1960-2018 4219-RS216

Primary Sources

Manifestos: John Barth, "Literature of Exhaustion," Harold Rosenberg “Tradition of the New”, Donald Barthelme “After Joyce”, William Gass “The Medium of Fiction”, Susan Sontag “Against Interpretation” and “Notes on Camp”
Thomas Pynchon, Crying of Lot 49.
Donald Barthelme, “The Balloon” “Paraguay” The Falling Dog”
John Barth “Night-Sea Journey” End of the Road
John Williams Stoner
Don DeLillo Underworld, “Baader-Meinhoff”
Mark. Z Danielewski, House of Leaves,
Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides,
Jonathan Franzen, Freedom
Lauren Groff “Above and Below,”
David Markson Reader’s Block [excerpt]
Chuck Palahniuk, Fightclub,
David Foster Wallace, “The Depressed Person”, Oblivion,
George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo,

Selected Secondary Sources:

Adorno, Theodor, Dialectic of Enlightenment (selections) 1979
Althusser, Louis, "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses" 1977
Bakhtin, Mikhail, The Dialogic Imagination (selections) 1990
Baudrillard, Jean ,America 1988, Simulacra and Simulation 1994
Benjamin, Walter,'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" in Illuminations 1968
Bourdieu, Pierre, Distinctions (selections)
Denning, Michael, The Cultural Front (selections) 1997
Rancière, Jacques, The Emancipated Spectator

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