Field Exam -- "Postmodern Fiction"

Jesse Cohn/Susan Strehle

35 texts

Kathy Acker, Empire of the Senseless

Martin Amis, Time's Arrow

Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye; The Handmaid's Tale

Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy

J.G. Ballard, Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballard; The Day of Creation

John Barth, Lost in the Funhouse

Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths

William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch; The Ticket That Exploded

A.S. Byatt, Possession; Angels & Insects

Italo Calvino, If On A Winter's Night A Traveler

Angela Carter, Saints and Strangers; Heroes and Villains

J.M. Coetzee, Foe; Waiting For the Barbarians

Don DeLillo, White Noise; Mao II

Denis Diderot, Jacques the Fatalist

Steve Erickson, Tours of the Black Clock; Arc d'X

Franz Kafka, In the Penal Colony

Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh and Other Stories

Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon; Beloved; Jazz

Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49; V., A Novel; Gravity's Rainbow; Slow Learner

Jane Smiley, Ordinary Love; Good Will

Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy

William T. Vollmann, The Rainbow Stories