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Department of Cultural Studies
AMERICAN STUDIES

Postmodernism

Course Information

Nr. Name Type Time Room Lecturer
154642 Postmodernism 2 PS Tu 10:15 - 11:45 R. 0.420 Pöhlmann

“Postmodernism” is a wide-ranging term for many different philosophical, artistic, and cultural developments since the 1960s that were as influential as they were controversial, and which are more complex and varied than the collective label suggests. This seminar offers a general introduction to make sense of this often confusing multiplicity, as we discuss the cultural and philosophical history of the concept and its many aesthetic manifestations.

We will mainly read and discuss central theoretical texts and two exemplary literary works (Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49; Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five), but we will also routinely refer to other aesthetic and medial forms.

Participants need to get copies of the novels (any edition will do), but you will be provided with scans of any other texts.

Modules

Lehramtsstudiengänge

LABG G HRG/HRSGe GyGe/BK SP
2009 602 503 503  
2016   503 503  

Angewandte Sprachwissenschaften &
Angewandte Literatur-/Kulturwissenschaften:

PO B.A.ALK B.A.AS M.A.ALK M.A.AS
PO ab WS 16/17 Kern: 1c, 2abc
Komp: 1b
Kern: 
Komp: 2a
   
PO ab WS 21/22 Kern: 1b, 2abc
Komp: 1b
Kern: 
Komp: 2a