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From Romantic Irony to Postmodernist Metafiction

Author : Christian Quendler
Publisher : Peter Lang Pub Incorporated
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 363136718X

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From Romantic Irony to Postmodernist Metafiction by Christian Quendler Pdf

This study represents a comparison between two radical gestures of literary self-reflexivity: romantic irony and postmodernist metafiction. It examines the impact of early German romantic theory and its central concept of irony on German and English romantic narrative fiction and relates the same to postmodernist self-reflexive novels, including its British and American variants. A primary objective of this comparison is to account for the radical skepticism that postmodernist metafiction voices with respect to the paramount philosophical question of truth and reality. The immanent tension between an absolute idealistic and a radically skeptic position which romantic irony articulates and enacts is conceived of as an important and instructive link to the understanding of postmodernism.

Hybrid Identity and the Utopian Impulse in the Postmodern Spanish-American Comic Novel

Author : Paul R. McAleer
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781855662971

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Hybrid Identity and the Utopian Impulse in the Postmodern Spanish-American Comic Novel by Paul R. McAleer Pdf

The author examines the role of comedy in the novels of four key postmodern Spanish-American writers: Gustavo Sainz, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Jaime Bayly and Fernando Vallejo.

Historical Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and Theater

Author : Fran Mason
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442276208

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Historical Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and Theater by Fran Mason Pdf

The main aim of the book has been to include writers, movements, forms of writing and textual strategies, critical ideas, and texts that are significant in relation to postmodernist literature. In addition, important scholars, journals, and cultural processes have been included where these are felt to be relevant to an understanding of postmodernist writing. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and Theater contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries on postmodernist writers, the important postmodernist aesthetic practices, significant texts produced throughout the history of postmodernist writing, and important movements and ideas that have created a variety of literary approaches within the form. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the postmodernist literature and theater.

The A to Z of Postmodernist Literature and Theater

Author : Fran Mason
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literature, Modern
ISBN : 9780810868557

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The A to Z of Postmodernist Literature and Theater by Fran Mason Pdf

"The A to Z of Postmodernist Literature and Theater examines the different areas of postmodernist literature and theater and the variety of forms that have been produced. It contains a list of acronyms, a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and several hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries on individual writers, important aesthetic practices, significant texts, and important movements and ideas that have created a variety of literary approaches within the form. By placing these concerns within the historical, philosophical, and cultural contexts of postmodernism, this reference explores the frameworks within which postmodernist literature of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries operates." --Book Jacket.

Irony and the Poetry of the First World War

Author : S. Puissant
Publisher : Springer
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230234215

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Irony and the Poetry of the First World War by S. Puissant Pdf

How does irony affect the evaluation and perception of the First World War both then and now? Irony and the Poetry of the First World War traces one of the major features of war poetry from the author's application as a means of disguise, criticism or psychological therapy to its perception and interpretation by the reader.

Metacinema

Author : David LaRocca
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780190095376

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Metacinema by David LaRocca Pdf

When a work of art shows an interest in its own status as a work of arteither by reference to itself or to other workswe have become accustomed to calling this move "meta." While scholars and critics have, for decades, acknowledged reflexivity in films, it is only in Metacinema, for the first time, that a group of leading and emerging film theorists join to enthusiastically debate the meanings and implications of the meta for cinema. In new essays on generative films, including Rear Window, 8 1/2, Holy Motors, Funny Games, Fight Club, and Clouds of Sils Maria, contributors chart, explore, and advance the ways in which metacinema is at once a mode of filmmaking and a heuristic for studying cinematic attributes. What results is not just an engagement with certain practices and concepts in widespread use in the movies (from Hollywood to global cinema, from documentary to the experimental and avant-garde), but also the development of a veritable and vital new genre of film studies. With more and more films expressing reflexivity, recursion, reference to other films, mise-en-abîme, seriality, and exhibiting related intertextual and intermedial traits, the time is overdue for the kind of capacious yet nuanced critical study found in Metacinema.

The Routledge Introduction to American Postmodernism

Author : Linda Wagner-Martin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351719315

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The Routledge Introduction to American Postmodernism by Linda Wagner-Martin Pdf

The Routledge Introduction to American Postmodernism offers readers a fresh, insightful overview to all genres of postmodern writing. Drawing on a variety of works from not only mainstream authors but also those that are arguably unconventional, renowned scholar Linda Wagner-Martin gives the reader a solid framework and foundation to reading, understanding, and appreciating postmodern literature since its inception through the present day.

Handbook of Narratology

Author : Peter Hühn,John Pier,Wolf Schmid,Jörg Schönert
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110217445

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Handbook of Narratology by Peter Hühn,John Pier,Wolf Schmid,Jörg Schönert Pdf

This handbook in English provides a systematic overview of the present state of international research in narratology. Detailed individual studies by internationally renowned narratologists elucidate 34 central terms. The articles present original research contributions and are all structured in a similar manner. Each contains a concise definition and a detailed explanation of the term in question. In a main section they present a critical account of the major research positions and their historical development and indicate directions for future research; they conclude with selected bibliographical references.

A Poetics of Postmodernism

Author : Linda Hutcheon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,9 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.

Productive Failure

Author : Felix Haase
Publisher : Verlag Herder GmbH
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783534406739

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Productive Failure by Felix Haase Pdf

Can literature transcend the limits of language? At the turn of the millennium, several American and Canadian authors grappled with this question in their works. They formed a literary movement: the New Sincerity. Felix Haase studies how the New Sincerity negotiates sincerity and irony. He traces the origin of its ideas back to the Romantics and Postmodernism. His close readings of works by Ben Lerner, Dave Eggers and Sheila Heti are a fascinating account of contemporary North American literature. Kann Literatur die Grenzen der Sprache überwinden? Zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts suchten amerikanische und kanadische Autor:innen neue Antworten auf diese Frage. Sie begründeten eine literarische Bewegung: die neue Aufrichtigkeit. In seinem Buch untersucht Felix Haase die Beziehung zwischen Aufrichtigkeit und Ironie anhand zeitgenössischer nordamerikanischer Literatur. Die Ideen der neuen Aufrichtigkeit werden auf die Zeit der Romantik und des Postmodernismus zurückgeführt.

Problems of Form

Author : Dirk Baecker
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804734240

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Problems of Form by Dirk Baecker Pdf

"Thus the observer is part of the situation he or she observes. The essays in this volume use this idea to describe different social "forms" as consisting of action observed by further action."--BOOK JACKET.

Framing Borders in Literature and Other Media

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401202022

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Framing Borders in Literature and Other Media by Anonim Pdf

This book is both a contribution to an interdisciplinary study of literature and other media and a pioneering application of cognitive and frame-theoretical approaches to these fields. In the temporal media a privileged place for the coding of cognitive frames are the beginnings while in spatial media physical borders take over many framing functions. This volume investigates forms and functions of such framing spaces from a transmedial perspective by juxtaposing and comparing the framing potential of individual media and works. After an introductory theoretical essay, which aims to clarify basic concepts, the volume presents eighteen contributions by scholars from various disciplines who deal with individual media. The first section is dedicated to framing in or through the visual arts and includes discussions of the illustrations of medieval manuscripts, the practice of framing pictures from the Middle Ages to Magritte and contemporary American art as well as framings in printmaking and architecture. The second part deals with literary texts and ranges from studies centred on framings in frame stories to essays focussing on the use of paratextual, textual and non-verbal media in the framings of classical, medieval and modern German and American narrative literature; moreover, it includes studies on defamiliarized framings, e.g. by Julio Cortázar and Jasper Fforde, as well as an essay on end-framing practices. Sections on framings in film (including the trailers of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings) and in music (operatic overtures and Schumann’s piano pieces) provide perspectives on further media. The volume is of relevance to students and scholars from various fields: intermedia studies, cognitive approaches to the media, literary and film studies, history of art, and musicology.

Terrifying Texts

Author : Cynthia J. Miller,A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476671307

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Terrifying Texts by Cynthia J. Miller,A. Bowdoin Van Riper Pdf

From Faust (1926) to The Babadook (2014), books have been featured in horror films as warnings, gateways, prisons and manifestations of the monstrous. Ancient grimoires such as the Necronomicon serve as timeless vessels of knowledge beyond human comprehension, while runes, summoning diaries, and spell books offer their readers access to the powers of the supernatural--but at what cost? This collection of new essays examines nearly a century of genre horror in which on-screen texts drive and shape their narratives, sometimes unnoticed. The contributors explore American films like The Evil Dead (1981), The Prophecy (1995) and It Follows (2014), as well as such international films as Eric Valette's Malefique (2002), Paco Cabeza's The Appeared (2007) and Lucio Fulci's The Beyond (1981).

Images of Thought

Author : Celina Jeffery
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781443807319

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Images of Thought by Celina Jeffery Pdf

With many illustrations and diagrams, Images of Thought provides easy to follow ways in which to read Indian, Persian and European paintings in terms of composition, proportion, colour symbolism and references to myth. Yet it also provides the intellectual contexts of Islamic cultures which inform our perceptions of how this visual language works. The author uses salient aspects of critical theory, anthropology and theology to sensitise viewers to the diversity and difference of cultural readings but never loses sight of the primacy of the visual and formal characteristics, gestures, geometrical structures and their cooperation with myths and theologemes. The book provides access to one of the world’s major visual traditions whose characteristics continue to inform and elucidate Indian and Islamic contemporary thought today. Images of Thought is a major, scholarly and provocative contribution not only to our understanding of cultural individuality but it offers important examples of how to engage in transcultural understanding and ways of seeing.

Encrypting the Past

Author : Kirstin Gwyer
Publisher : Oxford Modern Languages & Lite
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198709930

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Encrypting the Past by Kirstin Gwyer Pdf

Encrypting the Past puts forward the interpretative category of the first-generation German-Jewish Holocaust novel and examines its representational strategies. With reference to works by H.G. Adler, Jenny Aloni, Elisabeth Augustin, Erich Fried, and Wolfgang Hildesheimer, and a concluding section on W.G. Sebald, it shows how Holocaust literature was being written decades before postwar authors such as Sebald were credited with having found new ways of reflecting the unspeakable. It demonstrates that, before the theoretical debate over the fundamental representability of the Holocaust was even fully under way, first-generation authors were already translating un-narratable trauma into a literary strategy of un-narrating: a strategy of encrypting the Holocaust into the form and structure of their texts. The implications of treating these writers as a set, and their body of work as a hitherto unacknowledged category of Holocaust fiction, go well beyond drawing attention to a number of important but critically neglected authors. This study frames the analysis of first-generation narrative strategies in the broader debate on the ethics and aesthetics of Holocaust writing. In revealing how certain kinds of testimony have been privileged above others in international Holocaust studies, it raises questions of a more general nature concerning canon formation and our theoretical responses to the Holocaust. In considering foremost among these responses the theory of deconstruction and trauma theory, it finally invites a re-examination of the relationship between the (post-)modern and trauma.