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1540 Postmodernism (H) – Grades 11 and 12 – 2.5 Credits
The focus of this seminar-styled class is for students to discover their own understanding of Postmodernism, a notoriously difficult literary movement to define. Representative texts from such early masters of the genre as Edgar Allan Poe and Vladimir Nabokov to the experimental writings of today will be studied in depth. We may not arrive at a definitive answer to the many questions these works pose, but the curriculum will suggest that Postmodernism is marked by a fundamental shift in our relationship to technology, mass media, and popular culture. Students will collaborate with the instructor to explore the novels, graphic novels, films, and new media works that seem to have at once exhausted the limits of modernism and gestured toward even greater innovative storytelling forms. |
Audio FilesDespair by Vladimir Nabokov
The Dupin Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
The Edgar Allan Poe Audio Collection
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
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HandoutsDespair by Vladimir Nabokov
The Destructors by Graham Greene
Edgar Allan Poe
Graphic Novels
The House of Asterion by Jorge Luis Borges
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
The Vane Sisters by Vladimir Nabokov
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
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Slide ShowsDespair by Vladimir Nabokov
Edgar Allan Poe
Graphic Novels
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
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