Read the text on Simulacra and Simulations from Jean Baudrillard, Selected Writings, ed. Mark Poster (Stanford; Stanford University Press, 1988), pp.166-184. You are asked to write reading responses for ten weeks. Instructions below. You have two weeks where you do not have to write reading responses. Write a response for each reading on the syllabus. […]
How do waste, excess, and repression go together in the novel?
Answer only one question. 1. This novel’s postmodern style is structured with lots of gaps between various narratives, which are assembled by the reader to make sensible interpretations. Another feature of postmodernism is simulacra or the proliferation of simulated realities overpowering physical reality. Cite an example of simulacra in the novel and briefly analyze it. […]