Modernism
and Postmodernism, Fall 2013, O'Donnell
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Web
Readings
last update: September 24, 2013
This page of readings related to class materials will be
updated regularly throughout the semester. These are not necessarily required
course reading. For reading assignments, click on "Calendar," above.
Samples
of Writing about Literature
- "The Answer Man: An ancient poem was rediscovered—and
the world swerved" [Department: "Annals of Culture"]. By Stephen
Greenblatt.
The
New Yorker, August 8, 2011. www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/08/08/110808fa_fact_greenblatt.
Click here for a cached
ms-word version, 5,200 wds, 10pt type, 8 pages.
- "The Clear Blue Sky" [comments on D. Delillo's
9-11 novel, Falling Man], by Frank Rich. New
York Times, Sunday Book Review, May 27, 2007. www.nytimes.com/2007/05/27/books/review/Rich-t.html
- "The Courthouse Ring: Atticus Finch and the
limits of Southern liberalism" [Department: "Politics and
Prose"]. By Malcolm Gladwell. The New Yorker, August 10, 2009. www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/08/10/090810fa_fact_gladwell
- "I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read: How American
High School Students Learn to Loathe Literature." By Francine Prose. Harper's Magazine, September 1999. www.heritagecollegeready.org/ourpages/auto/2010/9/27/63079238/CagedBirdCannotRead.pdf
- "The Neverending Campaign to Ban 'Slaughterhouse
Five'." By Betsy Morais. The
Atlantic Magazine, August 12, 2011. www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/08/the-neverending-campaign-to-ban-slaughterhouse-five/243525/
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"The Humbug: Edgar Allan Poe and the economy of horror." By
Jill Lepore. The New Yorker, April 27, 2009. www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2009/04/27/090427crat_atlarge_lepore.
(Click here for a cached
version.)
- "Phyllis Wheatley On
Trial." By Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The New Yorker, January 20, 2003.
www.en.utexas.edu/Classes/Bremen/e316k/316kprivate/scans/gates.html.
(Click here for a
cached version.)
Review
Essays
- "'Mrs. Dalloway' Review." By James Topham. About.com:
Classic Literature. No date;
accessed September 2013. classiclit.about.com/od/mrsdalloway/fr/aa_mrsdalloway.htm
- "Dancing in the Dark [on Kurt Vonnegut]." By Michael Wood. The New
York Review of Books, May 31, 1973.
Accessed online, September 2013, at www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1973/may/31/dancing-in-the-dark/
- "At Last, Kurt Vonnegut's Famous Dresden
Book." An unsigned review of
Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five. New York Times, March 31, 1969. Accessed online, September 2013, at
www.nytimes.com/books/97/09/28/lifetimes/vonnegut-slaughterhouse.html
- "Tuning back in to 'White Noise': A reissue of Don
DeLillo's classic novel." By
Richard Rayner. Los Angeles Times, January 3, 2010.
articles.latimes.com/2010/jan/03/entertainment/la-caw-paperback-writers3-2010jan03
- "'White Noise,' by Don DeLillo." Review by Jayne Anne Phillips. The New
York Times, January 13, 1985. www.nytimes.com/1985/01/13/books/delillo-noise.html
- "Conspirators" [a review of Delillo's White
Noise]. By Diane Johnson. The New
York Review of Books, March 14, 1985.
www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1985/mar/14/conspirators/
Other
Texts
- "The
Charms of Wikipedia," by Nicholson Baker. New York Review of Books 55, 4 (March 20, 2008). Click here for a cached,
printable version.
- "O.K., Glass:
Confessions of a Google Glass Explorer."
By Gary Shteyngart. The New Yorker, August 5, 2013. www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/08/05/130805fa_fact_shteyngart
- "Down with Research Papers!" By Thomas
Bertonneau. August 10, 2011. The John William Pope Center for Higher Education
Policy, Raleigh NC. www.popecenter.org/commentaries/article.html?id=2561
- Mrs. Dalloway
(1925), by Virginia Woolf, e-book, in 105 pages, at
"grabafreebie.com" www.grabafreebie.com/EBook/MrsDalloway/index.html
- "Errol Morris and the Tricky Art of Refuting
Holocaust Denial." By Ron Rosenbaum. New
York Observer, Sep 13, 1999. Posted at errolmorris.com/content/review/mrd_rosenbaum.html
- "On the Use and Abuse of History for Life." By
Frederic Nietzsche. Trans. Ian Johnston. records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/nietzsche/history.htm
- Postmodernism or,
The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991). By Fredric Jameson. Two
excerpts from chapter 1, posted at www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/jameson.htm
- Ihab Hassan. "Toward a Concept of Postmodernism."
From The Postmodern Turn: Essays in
Postmodern Theory and Culture, 1987. www.mariabuszek.com/kcai/PoMoSeminar/Readings/HssnPoMo.pdf
- "'The Tragedy of Arthur': Shakespeare or not? An
ingenious new novel--presenting itself as a long-lost work of the bard--comes
with a whopping disclaimer." By Laura Miller. Salon Dot Com, April 24, 2011. www.salon.com/books/laura_miller/2011/04/24/tragedy_of_arthur
Video
- Interview with David Foster Wallace. Charlie Rose,
Thursday, March 27, 1997. www.charlierose.com/view/interview/5639