Conspiracy theories, language plays, witty symbolism, or metahistories are only some of the recurring elements of postmodern fiction. In this course we tackle both postmodern theory and literature as exemplified in the literary form of the novella. According to Warren Cariou the novella “is most often concerned with personal and psychological development rather than with the larger social sphere [and] generally retains something of the unity of the short story [but also] the more highly developed characterization and more luxuriant description” of the novel. The form thus gives ample room for the manifold themes and topics of postmodern literature. From paranoia, to a queered Pentecostal evangelical household, from reverse chronologies to alarming deadlocks this course seeks to access the various aesthetics of postmodern fiction.
- Dozent/in: Marcel Hartwig