Tekst- og litteraturhistorie i de engelsksprogede lande Session Six: Postmodernism.

Tekst- og litteraturhistorie i de engelsksprogede lande

Session Six: Postmodernism

Agenda

• Postmodernism: key notions

• Modernism and postmodernism:– Sculpture– Painting– Music– Architecture– Literature

Postmodernism: key notions

• Lyotard, Grand Narratives: totalising stories, naturalising explanations

• Baudrillard, Simulacra: Copy – copy rel.

• Derrida, The metaphysics of presence. Logocentrism: the inward rational principle of man, texts, … the universe

Damien Hirst, For the Love of God (2007)

Damien Hirst, A Thousand Years, 1990Steel, glass, flies, maggots, MDF, insect-o-cutor, cow's head, sugar,

water (13 x 427 x 213 cm)

This little piggy went to market, this little piggy stayed at home (1996)

Isolated Elements Swimming in the Same Direction for the Purposes of Understanding

(1991)

Damien Hirst,The Physical Impossibility of Death

in the Mind of Someone Living.

Jeff Koons, Michael Jackson and Bubbles (1988) Ceramic. 42 x 70 1/2 x 32 1/2 in. (106.7 x 179.1 x

82.5 cm)

1000 de La Gauchetière (1992)

Mississauga City Hall

San Antnonio Public Library, Texas

Frank Gehry, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Prague - Dancing House

Buildings in Düsseldorf Harbor

Postmodern music

• Laurie Anderson, ”O Superman”; ”Big Science”

• John Cage

Postmodern literature

• Intertextuality

• Pastiche

Angela Carter

• The Bluebeard legend

• Does Carter’s story say anything? What?

Donald Barthelme, ”The Balloon”

• Describe the narrator-protagonist– Who is he? What’s he doing as a narrator and a

protagonist?

• What is the relationship between ”The Balloon” and the balloon?

• What’s the relationship between the narrator-protagonist and Donald Barthelme?

• What does ”The Balloon” say about text and meaning?