Engl 4040 Modernism and Postmodernism, Fall 2015, O'Donnell, ETSU

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last update: November 3, 2015

Here are links to various readings related to this course.

Review Essays

- "Book Review - Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon." By Roderick Random (pseudonymn?). On a personal blog about culture and the arts. Tuesday, March 8, 2011. roderick-random.blogspot.com/2011/03/book-review-inherent-vice-by-thomas.html

- "Soft Boiled: Pynchon’s stoned detective [a review of Inherent Vice]". By Louis Menand. The New Yorker, August 3, 2009. faculty.etsu.edu/odonnell/readings/menand_reviews_inherentvice.pdf

- "'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/

Various Texts of Interest

- "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. 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