Necromodernism: A Critical Introduction: graded paper - AAALE030B

• Title: Necromodernism: A Critical Introduction: písemná práce
• Guaranteed by: Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2025
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Mgr. David Vichnar, Ph.D.

Annotation

NECROMODERNISM: A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION (Summer 2026)
David VICHNAR, PhD
(Consultations: by appointment, Room 219b)
Wednesday 3.50-5.20 pm, Room 34

This MA seminar explores the concept of necromodernism—a critical framework for understanding contemporary experimental literature and art as haunted by the unfinished project of modernism. Through readings that span fiction, theory, and visual culture, the course examines how writers and artists engage with the modernist archive as a site of decay, repetition, and spectral return. Topics include the aesthetics of exhaustion, the “death of the novel,” the archive as contagion, and the textual afterlives of authorship. Case studies include but are not limited to Ansgar Allen, Louis Armand, Daniela Cascella, Mike Corrao, Grant Maierhofer, Vi Khi Nao, Richard Makin, John Trefry, and other post-avant figures whose works enact the persistence of modernist forms under conditions of digital, ecological, and epistemic collapse. Students will be encouraged to map the philosophical, formal, and historical dimensions of necromodernism as both a literary practice and a mode of critique.

MOODLE LINK TO SYLLABUS & ALL READINGS:
https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=1253

Last update: Vichnar David, Mgr., Ph.D. (03.02.2026)