Brilliant Minds

The Promised Links: Po-Mo & Barnes

Here are the links I've been mentioning:

• An overview of postmodernism: Approaches to Po-Mo
• The Ouroboros on Wikipedia: a symbol of self-reflexivity

Reviews for Julian Barnes' The Sense of an Ending:

• New York Times by Schillinger
• New York Times by Dyer
• NPR with transcript
• The Guardian
• Boston Review (good references to the text)
• The Conversation (on the readability debate)
• BBC News (on the readability debate)

Lit 21 Reading Schedule

Here is our reading schedule for the next few weeks:

Sec. 1, Sec. 2

6/5, 7    Introduction to postmodernism & contemporary literature

6/12, 14    Julian Barnes, The Sense of An Ending (Knopf) 

6/19, 21    Don DeLillo, The Angel Esmerelda (Scribner) 

6/26, 28    Tomas Transtromer, The Deleted World (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 

7/3, 5    Tea Obreht, The Tiger's Wife (Random House) 

7/10, 12    Arthur Phillips, The Tragedy of Arthur (Random House) 

7/17, 19    David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (Random House) 

7/24, 26    Magdalena Tulli, In Red (Archipelago Books)