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Tues, Nov 15


VIEW: X-Files, ‘The Postmodern Prometheus’


READ:

  1. BulletLinda Hutcheon, A Poetics of Postmodernism

  2. BulletSusan Sontag, ‘Notes on Camp’

  3. Bullet“parody”

  4. Bullet“kitsch”

  5. Bullet“camp”



  INTROS

  TERMS

MATERIAL

"The Camp Prometheus"




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Synopsis for Nov 15

ENGL 373H: The Theory of SF&F

INSTRUCTOR         : Prof. Felluga

OFFICE                    : HEAV 430

OFFICE HOURS      : T,Th 1:30-2:30 (or email me)

E-MAIL:                   : felluga@purdue.edu

SCIENCE FICTION AND THE POSTMODERN CONDITION


In this third block of classes, we will examine a number of science-fiction examples that explore our current age, which has been termed by many ‘postmodernity.’ We will explore the various elements of our current ‘postmodern condition,’ including computer culture, image culture, media culture, pop culture, and multiculturalism.  Alongside the films, we will be reading some of the most influential postmodern theorists of the last three decades. In so doing, we will explore a number of concepts that have been used to understand our age (pastiche, parody, cyborg and the simulacrum).