ENG 360 Postmodern and Experimental Literature

An exploration of contemporary literature that focuses on major authors and trends within postmodernism, and experimental writing. Key elements of postmodern writing, including play, meta-texts, genre-bending, and hybrid forms, will be foregrounded through readings as well as student assignments. Postmodernism will be discussed as a contested term, and an aesthetics that responds to previous movements and writers, as well as collapses cultural distinctions between high and low.