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