This course introduces master students to postmodernism as a cultural trend that characterized the post WWII context in the west, it penetrates in its historical, cultural, social and economic features in the sixties to the nineties. Definition od differnet philosophical theories of the period by Derrida, Lyotard, Daudrillard and other are relevant to define the posmodern perspective. Studying certain American and British postmodernl literary masterpieces as Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five and Golding Lord of the Flies is deeply applied in class to define postmodernist writing , techniques and representation. Metafiction, Playfulness, Intertextuality, Pastiche, Minimalism , Historiographic Mteafiction , Mimesis and Immanence are fully discussed to examine this particular literary movement.
- Enseignant: MERYEM BOUREGAA