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EKSAMEN Postmodernism in the US
I dette kursus er eleverne blevet introduceret til kendetegnene ved den litterære genre postmodernisme samt til, hvordan den bryder med og forholder sig til historiske, samfundsmæssige og kulturelle aspekter af livet i USA.
Forløbet inddrager forskellige tekster som digte, sang, korte videoer, novelle og en roman.
Som en del af vores forløb om Postmodernism in the US læste vi romanen Fight Club af Chuck Palahniuk. Her fokuserede vi på kendetegnene ved den litterære genre postmodernisme samt elementer fra fiktionsanalyse såsom narrative technique (unreliable narrator), characterisation og setting.
Nøglebegreber: Alienation, Anti-ideology, consumerism, de-hierarchisation, dehumanisation, fragmentation, Grand Narratives (loss of), individuality and the search for Self, intertextuality, metafiction, narcissism, nihilism, meaninglessness, parody, pastiche, playfulness, irony, relativism, sceptism, truth, death of the author, unreliable narrator, frame story, the American dream, Manifest Destiny, American values
Kernemateriale:
"Postmodernism: Historical Background", i "Through literary Landscapes", Niels Back og Pia Sing, 2020, Systime.
"Postmodernism: Literary Background", i "Through literary Landscapes", Niels Back og Pia Sing, 2020, Systime.
"Interflora", Susan Hamlyn, 2002 (digt)
"How to eat a poem", Eve Marriam, 1964, i Through literary Landscapes", Niels Back og Pia Sing, 2020, Systime.
Visual interpretation of "Television is a Drug", Tod Alcott, af Beth Fulton, 2010: http://www.toddalcott.com/?s=television+is+a+drug
"7 Rings", Ariane Grande, 2019
"Auggie Wren's Christmas Story", Paul Auster, i "The New York Times", 1990.
"Fight Club", Chuck Palahniuk, 2006, Vintage.
Supplerende stof:
"Sonnet 18" William Shakespeare, 1609
"My Favourite Things", Julie Andrews, i "The Sound of Music", 1965
"Chapter five: Auggie Wren's Christmas Story" i "Smoke", Waybe Wang of Paul Auster, 1995: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kCUbw8Ug28
"Manifest Destiny and U.S. Westward Expansion", Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2014: chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://americanexperience.si.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Manifest-Destiny-and-U.S-Westward-Expansion__.pdf
Uddrag fra "Postmodernist Fiction", Nasrullah Mambrol, 2025: https://literariness.org/2025/04/26/postmodernist-fiction/
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