English 3890—Spring 2009

Course Overview

Core Texts


Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens),  Pudd’nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins.  Norton CE, 2004.   ISBN: 0393925358

Don DeLillo,  White Noise.  New York: Penguin, 1986.  ISBN 0140077022 

Charles Johnson,  Middle Passage.  Scribner, 1998.  ISBN: 0684855887

Jean François Lyotard, 
The Postmodern Condition.  U of Minnesota, 1984.  ISBN: 0816611734

Jean Baudrillard, 
The Gulf War Did Not Take Place.  Indiana, 1995.  ISBN: 0253210038

J.A. Cuddon, 
Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory.  New York: Penguin, 2000.  ISBN: 0140513639

Reserve Reading

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