Teaching the postmodern: fiction and theory

Structuralism and Italo Calvino's "A sign in space"

Critique of representation and J.M. Coetzee's Foe

Critique of subjectivity and Michel Tournier's Friday

From Work to text to intertextuality : Robinson Crusoe, Foe, Friday

Counter-memory and historiographic metafiction : Christa Wolf's Cassandra, Timothy Findley's Famous last words, Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children

Resisting closure and Toni Morrison's Beloved.