Fictional Space In The Modernist And Post Modernist American Novel

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Fictional Space in the Modernist and Post-modernist American Novel

Author : Carl Darryl Malmgren
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0838750672

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Fictional Space in the Modernist and Post-modernist American Novel by Carl Darryl Malmgren Pdf

Fictional space is the imaginal expanse of field created by fictional discourse; a space which, through ultimately self-referential and self-validating, necessarily exists in ascertainable relation to the real world outside the text. After defining his theoretical framework the author applies it to American fiction of the twentieth century.

Postmodernist Fiction

Author : Brian McHale
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134949175

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Postmodernist Fiction by Brian McHale Pdf

In this trenchant and lively study Brian McHale undertakes to construct a version of postmodernist fiction which encompasses forms as wide-ranging as North American metafiction, Latin American magic realism, the French New New Novel, concrete prose and science fiction. Considering a variety of theoretical approaches including those of Ingarden, Eco, Dolezel, Pavel, and Hrushovski, McHale shows that the common denominator is postmodernist fiction's ability to thrust its own ontological status into the foreground and to raise questions about the world (or worlds) in which we live. Exploiting various theoretical approaches to literary ontology - those of Ingarden, Eco, Dolezel, Pavel, Hrushovski and others - and ranging widely over contemporary world literature, McHale assembles a comprehensive repertoire of postmodernist fiction's strategies of world-making and -unmaking.

Modernism/Postmodernism

Author : Peter Brooker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317898764

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Modernism/Postmodernism by Peter Brooker Pdf

The concepts of 'Modernism' and 'Postmodernism' constitute the single most dominant issue of twentieth-century literature and culture and are the cause of much debate. In this influential volume, Peter Brooker presents some of the key viewpoints from a variety of major critics and sets these additionally alongside challenging arguments from Third World, Black and Feminist perspectives. His excellent Introduction and detailed headnotes for each section and essay provide an indispensable guide to interpreting the many different opinions, and prove to be valuable contributions in their own right.

The Play of the Double in Postmodern American Fiction

Author : Gordon Slethaug
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0809318415

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The Play of the Double in Postmodern American Fiction by Gordon Slethaug Pdf

In The Hawkline Monster, Brautigan's minimalist metafictive parody of the double depicts our narcissistic view of reality. In Double or Nothing, Federman subverts the conventional double, exposing its gamelike structures and traditional views of life and text.

Modern/Postmodern

Author : Peter V. Zima
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441112897

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Modern/Postmodern by Peter V. Zima Pdf

Modern/Postmodern: Society, Philosophy, Literature offers new definitions of modernism and postmodernism by presenting an original theoretical system of thought that explains the differences between these two key movements. Taking a contrastive approach, Peter V. Zima identifies three key concepts in the relationship between modernism and postmodernism - ambiguity, ambivalence and indifference. Zima defines modernism and postmodernism as problematics, as opposed to aesthetics, stylistics or ideologies. Unlike modernism, which is grounded in an increasing ambivalence towards social norms and values, postmodernity is presented as an era of indifference, i.e. of interchangeable norms, values and perspectives. Taking an historical, interdisciplinary and intercultural approach that engages with Anglo-American and European debates, the book describes the transition from late modernist ambivalence to postmodern indifference in the contexts of philosophy, literature and sociology. This is the ideal guide to the relationship between modernism and postmodernism for students and scholars throughout the humanities.

A Poetics of Postmodernism

Author : Linda Hutcheon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134986279

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A Poetics of Postmodernism by Linda Hutcheon Pdf

First published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Postmodernism

Author : Hugh J. Silverman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351621595

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Postmodernism by Hugh J. Silverman Pdf

This book, first published in 1990, addresses the broad cultural phenomenon that is postmodernism. The first part of the book raises some general theoretical questions about postmodernism – its language and its politics, for example. The second section attends to particular ‘sites’, namely the various arts themselves and the philosophical understanding of them. Here one finds specific readings of architecture, painting, literature, theatre, photography, film, television, dance and fashion.

Constructing Postmodernism

Author : Brian McHale
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135083632

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Constructing Postmodernism by Brian McHale Pdf

Brian McHale provides a series of readings of a wide range of postmodernist fiction, from Eco's Foucault's Pendulum to the works of cyberpunk science-fiction, relating the works to aspects of postmodern popular culture.

Unknowing

Author : Philip M. Weinstein
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0801489733

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Unknowing by Philip M. Weinstein Pdf

Weinstein explores the modernist commitment to 'unknowling' by addressing the work of three experimental writers: Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, & William Faulkner.

Routledge Library Editions: Continental Philosophy

Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2448 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351602259

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Routledge Library Editions: Continental Philosophy by Various Pdf

This 11-volume set reissues a host of classic titles on Continental Philosophy. Written by leading scholars in the field, they form an essential reference resource that tackles philosophers and subjects such as Deleuze, Derrida, hermeneutics and phenomenology.

From Modernism to Postmodernism

Author : Gerhard Hoffmann
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789401202428

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From Modernism to Postmodernism by Gerhard Hoffmann Pdf

This systemic study discusses in its historical, cultural and aesthetic context the postmodern American novel between the years of 1960 and 1980. A general overview of the various definitions of postmodernism in philosophy, cultural theory and aesthetics provides the framework for the inquiry into more specific problems, such as: the broadening of aesthetics, the relationship between aesthetics and ethics, the transformation of the artistic tradition, the interdependence between modernism and postmodernism, and the change in the aesthetics of fiction. Other topics addressed here include: situationalism, montage, the ordinary and the fantastic, the subject and the character, the imagination, comic modes, and the future of the postmodern strategies. The authors whose fiction is treated in some detail under the various aspects thematized are John Barth, Donald Barthelme, Richard Brautigan, Robert Coover, Stanley Elkin, Raymond Federman, William Gaddis, John Hawkes, Jerzy Kosinski, Thomas Pynchon, Ishmael Reed, Ronald Sukenick, and Kurt Vonnegut.

American Studies

Author : Jack Salzman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1124 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1990-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0521365597

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American Studies by Jack Salzman Pdf

This volume supplements the acclaimed three volume set published in 1986 and consists of an annotated listing of American Studies monographs published between 1984 and 1988. There are more than 6,000 descriptive entries in a wide range of categories: anthropology and folklore, art and architecture, history, literature, music, political science, popular culture, psychology, religion, science and technology, and sociology.

Sublime Desire

Author : Amy J. Elias
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2003-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801875434

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Sublime Desire by Amy J. Elias Pdf

Co-winner of the Perkins Prize from the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature Has twentieth-century political violence destroyed faith in historical knowledge? What happens to historical fiction when history is seen as either a form of Western imperialism or a form of postmodern simulation? In Sublime Desire, Amy Elias examines our changing relationship to history and how fiction since 1960 reflects that change. She contends that postmodernism is a post-traumatic imagination that is pulled between two desires: the political desire to acknowledge the physical violence of twentieth-century history, and the yearning for an escape from that history into a ravishing realm of historical certainty. Torn between these desires, both historical fiction and historiography after 1960 redefine history as the "sublime," a territory beyond lived experience that is both unknowable and seductive. In the face of a failure of Enlightenment ideals about knowledge and the West's own history of violence, post-World War II history becomes a desire for the "secular sacred" sublime—for awe, certainty, and belief. Sublime Desire is an eloquent melding of theory and practice. Mixing the canonical with the unexpected, Elias analyzes developments in the historical romance genre from Walter Scott's novels to novels written today. She correlates developments in the historical romance to similar changes in historiography and philosophy. Sublime Desire draws engagingly on more than thirty relevant texts, from Tolstoy's War and Peace to Jeanette Winterson's Sexing the Cherry, Charles Johnson's Dreamer, and Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain. But the book also examines theories of postmodern space and time and defines the difference between postmodern and postcolonial historical perspectives. The final chapter draws from trauma theory in Holocaust studies to define how fiction can pose an ethical alternative to aestheticized history while remaining open to pluralism and democratic values. In its range and sophistication, Sublime Desire is a valuable addition to postmodernist studies as well as to studies of the historical romance novel.

John Barth and Postmodernism

Author : Berndt Clavier
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 082046385X

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John Barth and Postmodernism by Berndt Clavier Pdf

John Barth's eminence as a postmodernist is indisputable. However, much of the criticism dealing with his work is prompted by his own theories of «exhaustion» and subsequent «replenishment, » leaving his writing relatively untouched by theories of postmodernism in general. This book changes that by focusing on the relationship between Barth's aesthetic and the ideology critique of the historical avant-gardes, which were the first to mobilize art against itself and its institutional practices and demands. Examining Barth's metafictional parodies in the light of theories of space and subjectivity, Clavier engages the question of ideology critique in postmodernism by offering the montage as a possible model for understanding Barth's fiction. In such a light, postmodernism may well be perceived as a mimesis of reality, particularly a recognition of the collective nature of self and the world.

Worlds Apart

Author : Carl Darryl Malmgren
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1991-07-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0253336457

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Worlds Apart by Carl Darryl Malmgren Pdf

"[Malmgren] succeeds in formulating a typology of science fiction that will become a standard reference for some years to come." —Choice " . . . the most intelligently organized and effectively argued general study of SF that I have ever read." —Rob Latham, SFRA Review " . . . required reading for its evenhanded overview of so much of the previous critical/theoretical material devoted to science fiction." —American Book Review Worlds Apart provides a comprehensive theoretical model for science fiction by examining the worlds of science fiction and the discourse which inscribes them. Malmgren identifies the basic science fiction types, including alien encounters, alternate societies and worlds, and fantasy, and examines the role of the reader in concretizing and interpreting these science fiction worlds.