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Romantic Postmodernism in American Fiction

Author : Alsen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004658981

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Romantic Postmodernism in American Fiction by Alsen Pdf

Intended for teachers and students of American Literature, this book is the first comprehensive analysis of romantic tendencies in postmodernist American fiction. The book challenges the opinion expressed in the Columbia History of the American Novel (1991) and propagated by many influential scholars that the mainstream of postmodernist fiction is represented by the disjunctive and nihilistic work of such writers as Kathy Acker, Donald Barthelme, and Robert Coover. Professor Alsen disagrees. He contends that this kind of fiction is not read and taught much outside an isolated but powerful circle in the academic community. It is the two-part thesis of Professor Alsen's book that the mainstream of postmodernist fiction consists of the widely read work of the Nobel Prize laureates Saul Bellow and Toni Morrison and other similar writers and that this mainstream fiction is essentially romantic. To support his argument, Professor Alsen analyzes representative novels by Saul Bellow, J.D. Salinger, Norman Mailer, Flannery O'Connor, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, Philip Roth, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, the later John Barth, Alice Walker, William Kennedy, and Paul Auster. Professor Alsen demonstrates that the traits which distinguish the fiction of the romantic postmodernists from the fiction of their disunctive and nihilist colleagues include a vision of life that is a form of philosophical idealism, an organic view of art, modes of storytelling that are reminiscent of the nineteenth-century romance, and such themes as the nature of sin or evil, the negative effects of technology on the soul, and the quest for transcendence.

Romanticism and Postmodernism

Author : Edward Larrissy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1999-08-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521642728

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Romanticism and Postmodernism by Edward Larrissy Pdf

The persistence of Romantic thought and literary practice into the late twentieth century is evident in many contexts, from the philosophical and ideological abstractions of literary theory to the thematic and formal preoccupations of contemporary fiction and poetry. Though the precise meaning of the Romantic legacy is contested, it remains stubbornly difficult to move beyond. This collection of essays by prominent critics and literary theorists was first published in 1999, and explores the continuing impact of Romanticism on a variety of authors and genres, including John Barth, William Gibson, and John Ashbery, while writers from the Romantic and Victorian period include Wordsworth, Byron and Emily Brontë. Many critics have assumed that the forms and modes of feeling associated with the Romantic period continued to influence the cultural history of the the first half of the twentieth century. This was the first book to consider the mutual impact of postmodernism and Romanticism.

American Fiction: Modernism-Postmodernism, Popular Culture, and Metafiction

Author : Jaroslav Kušnír
Publisher : ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783838255149

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American Fiction: Modernism-Postmodernism, Popular Culture, and Metafiction by Jaroslav Kušnír Pdf

Jaroslav Kušnír’s book American Fiction: Modernism-Postmodernism, Popular Culture, and Metafiction is a sequel to his previous study on American postmodern fiction entitled Poetika americkej postmodernej prózy: Richard Brautigan and Donald Barthelme [Poetics of American Fiction: Richard Brautigan and Donald Barthelme]. Prešov: Impreso, 2001. It explores various aspects of American postmodernist fiction as manifested in the works by Richard Brautigan, Donald Barthelme and other American postmodernist authors such as Robert Coover, E. L. Doctorow, Kurt Vonnegut and Paul Auster. Analyzing various short stories and novels, the author shows differences between modernist and postmodernist literature in the works of Donald Barthelme; the way postmodern parodies of popular literary genres give a critique of some aspects of American cultural identity and experience (the American Dream, individualism, consumerism); and he also shows different ways postmodern authors such as Robert Coover, Kurt Vonnegut and Paul Auster create metafictional effect as one of the most significant aspects of postmodern literature.

Postmodernism in American Literature

Author : Manfred Pütz,Peter Freese
Publisher : Darmstadt : Thesen Verlag
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015005568525

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Philip Roth's Postmodern American Romance

Author : Jane Statlander
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 1433105985

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Philip Roth's Postmodern American Romance by Jane Statlander Pdf

The central thesis of this book is that Philip Roth's work is most accurately viewed as postmodernist American Historical Romance, rather than marginalized as Jewish-American. Four works are analyzed in relation to this thesis and to the specific idea that Roth's contribution is entirely within mainstream American literature and culture. Emphasizing the importance and influence of Hebrew Scripture, the author demonstrates that, paradoxically, Roth's Jewishness locates him squarely within the canon of (a Hebraic) America and its letters.

From Puritanism to Postmodernism

Author : Richard Ruland,Malcolm Bradbury
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317234159

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From Puritanism to Postmodernism by Richard Ruland,Malcolm Bradbury Pdf

Widely acknowledged as a contemporary classic that has introduced thousands of readers to American literature, From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature brilliantly charts the fascinating story of American literature from the Puritan legacy to the advent of postmodernism. From realism and romanticism to modernism and postmodernism it examines and reflects on the work of a rich panoply of writers, including Poe, Melville, Fitzgerald, Pound, Wallace Stevens, Gwendolyn Brooks and Thomas Pynchon. Characterised throughout by a vibrant and engaging style it is a superb introduction to American literature, placing it thoughtfully in its rich social, ideological and historical context. A tour de force of both literary and historical writing, this Routledge Classics edition includes a new preface by co-author Richard Ruland, a new foreword by Linda Wagner-Martin and a fascinating interview with Richard Ruland, in which he reflects on the nature of American fiction and his collaboration with Malclolm Bradbury. It is published here for the first time.

The New Romanticism

Author : Eberhard Alsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317776000

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The New Romanticism by Eberhard Alsen Pdf

The New Romanticism is an overview of the romantic trend taken up by American novelists in the twentieth-century. Includes three classic essays by Saul bellow, Thomas Pyncheon, and Toni Morrison.

From Romantic Irony to Postmodernist Metafiction

Author : Christian Quendler
Publisher : Peter Lang Pub Incorporated
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 43,7 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.

Romancing the Postmodern

Author : Diane Elam
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000639339

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Romancing the Postmodern by Diane Elam Pdf

By exposing the theory of romance to the romance of theory, Diane Elam explores literature’s most uncertain, least easily definable and most tenacious genre, assessing its implications for both feminism and the understanding of history. Arguing for a parallel between postmodernism’s divided relation to modernism and romance’s difficult stance towards realism, Romancing the Postmodern, first published in 1992, not only highlights how postmodernism questions our assumptions about historical time, it also reintroduces the figure of woman to the theory of both history and literature.

Literature and the Child

Author : James Holt McGavran,James Holt Mcgavran
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1998-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781587292910

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Literature and the Child by James Holt McGavran,James Holt Mcgavran Pdf

The Romantic myth of childhood as a transhistorical holy time of innocence and spirituality, uncorrupted by the adult world, has been subjected in recent years to increasingly serious interrogation. Was there ever really a time when mythic ideals were simple, pure, and uncomplicated? The contributors to this book contend—although in widely differing ways and not always approvingly—that our culture is indeed still pervaded, in this postmodern moment of the very late twentieth century, by the Romantic conception of childhood which first emerged two hundred years ago. In the wake of the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution, western Europe experienced another fin de siècle characterized by overwhelming material and institutional change and instability. By historicizing the specific political, social, and economic conflicts at work within the notion of Romantic childhood, the essayists in Literature and the Child show us how little these forces have changed over time and how enriching and empowering they can still be for children and their parents. In the first section, “Romanticism Continued and Contested,” Alan Richardson and Mitzi Myers question the origins and ends of Romantic childhood. In “Romantic Ironies, Postmodern Texts,” Dieter Petzold, Richard Flynn, and James McGavran argue that postmodern texts for both children and adults perpetuate the Romantic complexities of childhood. Next, in “The Commerce of Children's Books,” Anne Lundin and Paula Connolly study the production and marketing of children's classics. Finally, in “Romantic Ideas in Cultural Confrontations,” William Scheick and Teya Rosenberg investigate interactions of Romantic myths with those of other cultural systems.

After Postmodernism

Author : Christopher K. Coffman,Theophilus Savvas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781000289015

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After Postmodernism by Christopher K. Coffman,Theophilus Savvas Pdf

Several of American literature’s most prominent authors, and many of their most perceptive critics and reviewers, argue that fiction of the last quarter century has turned away from the tendencies of postmodernist writing. Yet, the nature of that turn, and the defining qualities of American fiction after postmodernism, remain less than clear. This volume identifies four prominent trends of the contemporary scene: the recovery of the real, a rethinking of historical engagement, a preoccupation with materiality, and a turn to the planetary. Readings of works by various leading figures, including Dave Eggers, Jonathan Franzen, A.M. Homes, Lance Olsen, Richard Powers, William T. Vollmann, and David Foster Wallace, support a variety of arguments about this recent revitalization of American literature. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Textual Practice.

From Modernism to Postmodernism

Author : Gerhard Hoffmann
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 51,7 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.

Reading American Novels and Multicultural Aesthetics

Author : L. Caton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230610286

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Reading American Novels and Multicultural Aesthetics by L. Caton Pdf

Using romantic theories, Caton analyzes America's contemporary novel. Organized through the two sections of "Theory" and "Practice," Reading American Novels and Multicultural Aesthetics begins with a study of aesthetic form only to have it reveal the content of politics and history. This presentation immediately offers a unified platform for an interchange between multiple cultural and aesthetic positions. Romantic theory provides for an integrated examination of diversity, one that metaphorically fosters a solid, inclusive, and democratic legitimacy for intercultural communication. This politically astute cosmopolitan appreciation will generate an intriguing "cross-over" audience: from ethnic studies to American studies and from literary studies to romantic studies, this book will interest a range of readers.

Postmodern Love in the Contemporary Jewish Imagination

Author : Efraim Sicher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000539097

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Postmodern Love in the Contemporary Jewish Imagination by Efraim Sicher Pdf

Offering a radical critique of contemporary Israeli and diaspora fiction by major writers of the generation after Amos Oz and Philip Roth, this book asks searching questions about identity formation in Jewish spaces in the twenty-first century and posits global, transnational identities instead of the bipolar Israel/diaspora model. The chapters put into conversation major authors such as Jonathan Safran Foer, Nicole Krauss, Michael Chabon, and Nathan Englander with their Israeli counterparts Zeruya Shalev, Eshkol Nevo, and Etgar Keret and shows that they share common themes and concerns. Read through a postmodern lens, their preoccupation with failed marriage and failed ideals brings to the fore the crises of home, nation, historical destiny, and collective memory in contemporary secular Jewish culture. At times provocative, at others iconoclastic, this innovative study must be read by anyone concerned with Jewish culture and identity today, whether scholars, students, or the general reader.

Neo-realism in Contemporary American Fiction

Author : Kristiaan Versluys
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9051833547

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Neo-realism in Contemporary American Fiction by Kristiaan Versluys Pdf