Description: Seminar, three hours. Designed for upper-division literature majors. Study of postmodern novel as it developed out of modernism. Postmodernism defined in three different ways--philosophically, scientifically, and economically. Emphasis on relationship of recent novels to theories of structuralism and poststructuralism. Readings include authors such as Borges, Beckett, Nabokov, Pynchon, Fuentes, Grass, Böll, and Calvino. Concurrently scheduled with course C272. Undergraduate students read all works in translation. P/NP or letter grading.

Units: 4.0