COD 2016 - G838
Cultural Programme - Reading Breakfast: City of Glass by Paul Auster (1985)
Teachers and Literature readers
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sessions, start: 06-Aug
The course chosen does not allow any new enrolment
Course detail
Year: 2016
Level: General
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Martha Patricia De Cunto
ESSARP Schools
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Exams Schools
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Non affiliate
ARS 300.00
ARS 300.00
Sessions
| Sessions | Dates | Start | Finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 06 August 2016 | 09:00 am | 12:00 pm |
Facilitator/s
Martha Patricia De Cunto
Teachers and Literature readers
- Become acquainted with the postmodern detective genre.
- Discuss postmodern elements.
- Explore key passages through the use of close reading of the text.
- Discuss postmodern elements.
- Explore key passages through the use of close reading of the text.
1) The concept of authorship in the light of Foucault's "What Is An Author? " (1969)
2) Analysis of the novel from a deconstructionist perspective.
3) The theme of identity and chance.
2) Analysis of the novel from a deconstructionist perspective.
3) The theme of identity and chance.
The facilitator will present the topics. Participants will be required to work on extracts to explore key moments in the novel and discuss how meaning is produced through close analysis of language.
Auster, P. (1985) City of Glass. Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press.
Beville, M. (2009) "On Gothic Terror" in Gothic-postmodernism: Voicing the Terrors of Postmodernity. Rodopi: Amsterdam - New York, NY (23-34)
Cook, M.(2011) Narratives of Enclosure in Detective Fiction The Locked Room Mystery. London: Palgrave.
Hutcheon, L. (1988) "Theorizing the postmodern: toward a poetics" in A Poetics of Postmodernism. History, Theory, Fiction. Routledge: New York and London.
Foucault, Michel. "What Is An Author?" In Language, Counter-memory, Practice. Ed. Daniel Bouchard. Trans. Bouchard and Sherry Simon. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1977. Pp. 113-138.
Martens,B. (2001) "Dramatic Monologue, Detective Fiction, and the Search for Meaning" in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Vol. 66, No. 2 (September 2011), pp. 195-218 Published by: University of California Press. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/ncl.2011.66.2.195 Accessed: 25-03-2016 17:38 UTC
Martin, B. Paul (2008) Auster’s Postmodernity. London.
Rowen, Norma (1991) "The Detective in Search of the Lost Tongue of Adam: Paul Auster's City of Glass. " Critique 32.4 : 224-233.
Russell, Alison (1990)"Deconstructing The New York Trilogy: Paul Auster's Anti-Detective Fiction." Critique 31.2: 71-84.
Salzani, C. (2007) "The City as Crime Scene: Walter Benjamin and the Traces of the Detective" in New German Critique, No. 100, Arendt, Adorno, New York, and Los Angeles pp. 165-187 Published by: Duke University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27669191 Accessed: 25-03-2016 17:39 UTC
Beville, M. (2009) "On Gothic Terror" in Gothic-postmodernism: Voicing the Terrors of Postmodernity. Rodopi: Amsterdam - New York, NY (23-34)
Cook, M.(2011) Narratives of Enclosure in Detective Fiction The Locked Room Mystery. London: Palgrave.
Hutcheon, L. (1988) "Theorizing the postmodern: toward a poetics" in A Poetics of Postmodernism. History, Theory, Fiction. Routledge: New York and London.
Foucault, Michel. "What Is An Author?" In Language, Counter-memory, Practice. Ed. Daniel Bouchard. Trans. Bouchard and Sherry Simon. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1977. Pp. 113-138.
Martens,B. (2001) "Dramatic Monologue, Detective Fiction, and the Search for Meaning" in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Vol. 66, No. 2 (September 2011), pp. 195-218 Published by: University of California Press. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/ncl.2011.66.2.195 Accessed: 25-03-2016 17:38 UTC
Martin, B. Paul (2008) Auster’s Postmodernity. London.
Rowen, Norma (1991) "The Detective in Search of the Lost Tongue of Adam: Paul Auster's City of Glass. " Critique 32.4 : 224-233.
Russell, Alison (1990)"Deconstructing The New York Trilogy: Paul Auster's Anti-Detective Fiction." Critique 31.2: 71-84.
Salzani, C. (2007) "The City as Crime Scene: Walter Benjamin and the Traces of the Detective" in New German Critique, No. 100, Arendt, Adorno, New York, and Los Angeles pp. 165-187 Published by: Duke University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27669191 Accessed: 25-03-2016 17:39 UTC