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

2. Agenda Postmodernism: key notions Modernism and postmodernism: –Sculpture –Painting –Music –Architecture –Literature

3. 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

4. Damien Hirst, For the Love of God (2007)

5. Damien Hirst, A Thousand Years, 1990 Steel, glass, flies, maggots, MDF, insect-o-cutor, cow's head, sugar, water (13 x 427 x 213 cm)

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

9. Isolated Elements Swimming in the Same Direction for the Purposes of Understanding (1991)

10. Damien Hirst,The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living.

11. 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)

12. 1000 de La Gauchetière (1992)

13. Mississauga City Hall

14. San Antnonio Public Library, Texas

15. Frank Gehry, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

16. Prague - Dancing House

17. Buildings in Düsseldorf Harbor

18. Postmodern music Laurie Anderson, ”O Superman”; ”Big Science” John Cage

19. Postmodern literature Intertextuality Pastiche

20. Angela Carter The Bluebeard legend Does Carter’s story say anything? What?

21. 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?