Postmodernism: The Big Picture, and Reading David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross

Throughout the second half of the semester we have considered literary representations of postwar America that move toward and … More

Concluding The Bluest Eye

Many of you are beginning to understand how The Bluest Eye both offers counternarratives (petite histoires) to the primer excerpts … More

Once you have listened to Mini Lecture 8, and read the linked notes, please respond to these questions: How … More

When most people finish reading The Crying of Lot 49, they feel like they are in the same position as … More

As you begin Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49, be patient with yourself and with the novel. It moves … More

AFTER you listen to Mini Lecture 7 and read the linked notes, choose and respond to one of these questions … More

AFTER you listen the (rather long) Mini Lecture 6, and read the linked notes, explore these questions as we begin … More

A central insight of the stream of consciousness technique – and of modernist fiction generally – is how deeply subjective … More

As we begin William Faulkner’s important Modernist novel The Sound and the Fury, a novel known for its masterful development … More