There are no pre-requisites for this module to be added

This module will allow you to study the issues raised by postmodern literature and theory. The module will cover texts that deploy pastiche, parody and metafiction to critique late stage, or consumer, capitalism. The module will introduce you to key postmodern theories that will allow you to critically analyse the texts and their experimental nature and will therefore allow you to gain an understanding of postmodern aesthetics. Some of the postmodern theories will include scepticism towards grant narratives, the society of the spectacle, simulation and deconstructionism which will be deployed to analyse issues such as violence, construction of reality, sexuality, globalisation, consumer society, labour inequalities, neoimperialism and identity politics.

L01 Critically reflect on the ways particular texts engage with the concept of the postmodernity
L02 Assess and debate theoretical ideas of the postmodern in relation to texts
L03 Analyse particular aesthetics strategies deployed by the texts to critique late stage capitalism.
L04 Engage with a range of critical approaches to the genre
L05 Critically analyse particular texts relating to the postmodern and postmodernity.