Engl 4040 Modernism and Postmodernism, Fall 2017, O'Donnell, ETSU


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last update: November 13, 2017

Here are links to various readings related to this course. 

 

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  

 

- "Gary Shteyngart Gets Serious: His Super Sad True Love Story truly is sad."  By Terrence Rafferty.  Slate Magazine, August 2, 2010.  www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2010/08/gary_shteyngart_gets_serious.html

- "Love Found Amid the Ruins" [review of Super Sad True Love Story, by Gary Shteyngart].  By Michiko Kakutani.  New York Times, July 26, 2010.  www.nytimes.com/2010/07/27/books/27book.html 

 

- "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

 

- "Ghosts of a brutal past:  Why Toni Morrison's Beloved - a sensational story of slavery and racism in America - has endured."  By Jane Smiley.  The Guardian [Manchester, England].  Saturday 8 July 2006.  www.theguardian.com/books/2006/jul/08/fiction.tonimorrison 

- "Jaunted by Their Nightmares: A review of Beloved, by Toni Morrison."  By Margaret Atwood.  The New York Times Book Review.  September 13, 1987.  www.nytimes.com/books/98/01/11/home/8212.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/

 

- "'Brief Interviews With Hideous Men" Review."  By Adam Goodheart.  The New York Times, June 20, 1999.  http://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/20/news/brief-interviews-with-hideous-men.html 

 

Various Texts of Interest

- "Poetry Slam; Or, The Decline of American Verse."  By Mark Edmundson.  Harper's Magazine, July 2013.  faculty.etsu.edu/odonnell/readings/poetry_slam_mark_edmundson.pdf

- "Breakfast Theory: A Morning Methodology."  Cartoon by J. A. Reid, 1989.  faculty.etsu.edu/odonnell/2015fall/engl4040/postmodern_toasties_cartoon.jpg   

-  "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. http://faculty.georgetown.edu/irvinem/theory/HassanPoMo.pdf 

 

Video

- Interview with David Foster Wallace. Charlie Rose, Thursday, March 27, 1997. www.charlierose.com/view/interview/5639