NPTEL : NOC:Postmodernism in Literature (Humanities and Social Sciences)

Co-ordinators : Prof. Merin Simi Raj


Lecture 1 - Introduction Part - 1

Lecture 2 - Introduction Part - 2

Lecture 3 - Introduction Part - 3

Lecture 4 - The Genealogy of Postmodernism

Lecture 5 - The Genealogy of Postmodernism : Locating the starting points

Lecture 6 - The Death of the author and it's Postmodern implications

Lecture 7 - The Death of the author and it's Postmodern implications (Continued...)

Lecture 8 - The Death of the author and it's Postmodern implications (Continued...)

Lecture 9 - What is an Author ?

Lecture 10 - What is an Author ? (Continued...)

Lecture 11 - Postmodern Theories and Frameworks : An Outline

Lecture 12 - Lyotard's Postmodern condition : Challenging Metanarratives

Lecture 13 - Lyotard's Postmodern condition : Challenging Metanarratives (Continued...)

Lecture 14 - Baudrillard,Hyperreality and Postmodern representations

Lecture 15 - Baudrillard,Hyperreality and Postmodern representations (Continued...)

Lecture 16 - Derrida,Deconstruction and Postmodern texts

Lecture 17 - Derrida,Deconstruction and Postmodern texts (Continued...)

Lecture 18 - Derrida,Deconstruction and Postmodern texts (Continued...)

Lecture 19 - Intertextuality,Kristeva and the study of Postmodern Texts

Lecture 20 - Postmodern Feminism : Gender and Performativity

Lecture 21 - Formulation of the Postmodern : Deleuze and Guattari

Lecture 22 - Minor Literature' and Postmodern Narratives

Lecture 23 - Critiques of Postmodernism : A Marxist Perspective

Lecture 24 - Critiques of Postmodernism

Lecture 25 - Feminism and Postmodernism

Lecture 26 - Situating the Postcolonial in the Postmodern

Lecture 27 - Homi K.Bhabha : The Postmodern and the Postcolonial

Lecture 28 - Is the Post-in Postmodernism the Post-in Postcolonial? : Understanding Appiah

Lecture 29 - Can the Subaltern Speak? : Deconstructing the Postcolonial

Lecture 30 - Reading Postmodern-Postcolonial Fiction

Lecture 31 - Hyperreality in Delillo's Postmodernist Fiction : A Discussion of White Noise

Lecture 32 - The Garden of Forking Paths : Postmodernist short fiction

Lecture 33 - The Garden of Forking Paths : Postmodernist short fiction (Continued...)

Lecture 34 - Postmodern Fiction by women : Reading Atwood's The Edible Woman

Lecture 35 - Postmodern Fiction by women : Reading Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale

Lecture 36 - Reading Postmdern Fiction : Slaughterhouse-Five b Kurt Vonnegut

Lecture 37 - Reading Postmdern Fiction : The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles

Lecture 38 - Postmodern Writings : Features,trends and some departures

Lecture 39 - Postmodern Writings : Situating Pynchon and the Beat Generation

Lecture 40 - Postmodern literature today : Some concluding thoughts