This module explores the intellectual history of postmodernism, and will consider a range of postmodern styles, political contexts and aesthetic practices for literature and performance. The module examines the work of theatre companies, productions, designers, writers, philosophers and plays in an effort to explore how postmodern performance practice encapsulates some of the definitions of the postmodern and how this transforms the theatrical, performance and literature landscape.

Alexander, Christine; McMaster, Juliet, eds. (2005). The Child Writer from Austen to Woolf. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-81293-1.

Attridge,Derek  ed.: 1999, The Cambridge Companion to Joyce, (Cambridge UP., Cambridge)

Auslander, Philip. Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized World, (London: Routledge, 1999)

Auslander, Philip. Performing Glam Rock: Gender and Theatricality in Popular Music, (Michigan, University of Michigan, 2006)

Bailes, Sara-Jane. Performance Theatre and the Poetics of Failure, (London: Routledge, 2010)

Barrett, Eileen; Cramer, Patricia, eds. (1997). Virginia Woolf: Lesbian Readings. NYU Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-1263-4.

Beauvoir, Simone de (2015) [1949]. The Second Sex (Vintage Feminism Short Edition). Random House. ISBN 978-1-4735-2191-9. see also The Second Sex

Benstock, Shari, ed. (1988). The Private Self: Theory and Practice of Women's Autobiographical Writings. UNC Press Books. ISBN 978-0-8078-4218-8

Bertens, Johannes Willem and Bertens, Hans, The idea of the postmodern: a history, (London: Routledge, 1995)

Bloom, Harold, ed. (2009). Virginia Woolf. Infobase Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4381-1548-1

Bowker, Gordon (2011). James Joyce : a biography. Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

Burgess, Anthony, Here Comes Everybody: An Introduction to James Joyce for the Ordinary Reader, Faber & Faber (1965). (Published in America as Re Joyce, Hamlyn Paperbacks Rev. ed edition (1982)). ISBN 0-600-20673-4.

Burgess, Anthony, Joysprick: An Introduction to the Language of James Joyce (1973), Harcourt (1975). ISBN 0-15-646561-2.

Causey, Matthew, Theatre and Performance in Digital Culture: from simulation to embeddedness, (London: Routledge, 2009)

Caux, Patrick & Gilbert, Bernard, EX MACHINA: Creating for the Stage, (UK: Talonbooks, 2009)

Clark, Hilary, The Fictional Encyclopaedia: Joyce, Pound, Sollers. Routledge Revivals, 2011. ISBN 978-0-415-66833-0

Cramer, Patricia. Lesbian readings of Woolf's novels: Introduction. pp. 117–127.

Curry, Ginette. Toubab La!: Literary Representations of Mixed-race Characters in the African Diaspora. Newcastle, England: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007, ISBN 978-1847182319

Davey, Kate, Richard Foreman and the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, (New York: Vintage Books, 1981)

Delgado, Maria M. and Caridad Svich (eds.), Theatre in Crisis?: performance manifestos for a new century, (Manchester University Press, 2002)

Delgado, Maria M. and Caridad Svich (eds.), Theatre in Crisis?: performance manifestos for a new century, (Manchester University Press, 2002)

Dundjerovic, Aleksandar Sasa, The Theatricality of Robert Lepage, (London: Routledge, 2009)

Dundjerovic, Aleksandar Sasa, The Theatricality of Robert Lepage, (London: Routledge, 2009)

Featherstone, Mike. Consumer Culture and Postmodernism, London: Sage, 2007)

Foreman, Richard : Plays and Manifestos (1976) Theatre of Images (1977) No body: A Novel in Parts (1996) Paradise Hotel and Other Plays (2001) Richard Foreman (Art Performance) (2005) Bad Boy Nietzsche! and Other Plays (2005) Manifestos and Essays (forthcoming 2010) Davey, Kate, Richard Foreman and the Ontological Hysteric Theater, (New York: Vintage Books, 1981)

Hammond, Will. Verbatim Theatre: Contemporary Documentary Theatre, (London: Oberon Books, 2008)

Jameson, Frederic. Cultural Turn : Selected Writings on the Postmodern 1983 1998

Jameson, Frederic. Postmodernism, (Duke NC. 1996) Caux, Patrick & Gilbert, Bernard, EX MACHINA: Creating for the Stage, (UK: Talonbooks, 2009) Sandler, Irving, Art Of The Postmodern Era: From The Late 1960s To The Early 1990s, (u.s.: Trade Paperback, 1997) Murphie, Andrew and Potts, Culture and technology, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) Bertens, Johannes Willem and Bertens, Hans, The idea of the postmodern: a history, (London: Routledge, 1995) Leitc, Vincent B.,Postmodernism: local effects, global flows, (State University of New York, 1996) Whitmore, Jon, Directing Postmodern Theater: Shaping Signification in Performance, (University of Michigan, 1994) 

Leitc, Vincent B.,Postmodernism: local effects, global flows, (State University of New York, 1996)

Liedeke, Plate and Anneke Smelik (eds.), Performing Memory in Art and Popular Culture, (New York: Routledge, 2013)

McHale, Brian and Len Platt (eds.). The Cambridge History of Postmodern Literature, (Cambridge, 2016)

Murphie, Andrew and Potts, Culture and technology, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003)

Nakamura, Lisa. Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity and Identity on the Internet, (London: Routledge, 2013)

Perloff, Marjore. Postmodern Genres, (Oklahoma UP, Oklahoma 1998)

Sandler, Irving, Art Of The Postmodern Era: From The Late 1960s To The Early 1990s, (u.s.: Trade Paperback, 1997)

Witmore, Jon, Directing Postmodern Theater: Shaping Signification in Performance, (University of Michigan, 1994) 

PMC - online journal - Postmodern Culture - University of California

Project Muse

Digital Humanities Quarterly

The Journal of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities

http://www.cla.purdue.edu/academic/engl/theory/postmodernism

http://www.cla.purdue.edu/academic/engl/theory/postmodernism/modules/baudrillardpostmodernity.html

http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/fr/lyotard.htm

http://www.robertwilson.com

http://www.absolutewilson.com/main.html

http://www.ontological.com

http://www.complicite.org/

http://www.thewoostergroup.org/

http://www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/content/

http://blueraincoat.com/contact.html

Film, Director - Katherina Otto-Bernstein, Absolute Wilson: The Biography, featuring Robert Wilson, Susan Sontag, Philip Glass and David Byrne, 2006

Robert Foreman:

Radio Rick in Heaven and Radio Richard in Hell, film (1987)

Total Rain, video play (1990)

Robert Lepage:

1992: Tectonic Plates

1995: Le Confessional

1997: Le Polygraphe

1998: Nô

2000: Possible Worlds

2003: The Far Side of the Moon

Films: Chuck Palahnuik's Fight Club, David Fincher's The Matrix, Kinji Fukasaku's Japanese movie Battle Royale,

JSTOR http://libguides.itsligo.ie/az.php?a=j

Digital Theatre through IT Sligo's library

Films through IT Sligo's library

Rihard Foreman online: 

 Plays and Manifestos (1976)

 Theatre of Images (1977)

 No-body: A Novel in Parts (1996)

 Paradise Hotel and Other Plays (2001)

 Richard Foreman (Art + Performance) (2005)

 Bad Boy Nietzsche! and Other Plays (2005)

 Manifestos and Essays (forthcoming 2010)