Succeeding Postmodernism

Author : Mary K. Holland
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441159342

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Succeeding Postmodernism by Mary K. Holland Pdf

While critics collect around the question of what comes "after postmodernism," this book asks something different about recent American fiction: what if we are seeing not the end of postmodernism but its belated success? Succeeding Postmodernism examines how novels by DeLillo, Wallace, Danielewski, Foer and others conceptualize threats to individuals and communities posed by a poststructural culture of mediation and simulation, and possible ways of resisting the disaffected solipsism bred by that culture. Ultimately it finds that twenty-first century American fiction sets aside the postmodern problem of how language does or does not mean in order to raise the reassuringly retro question of what it can and does mean: it finds that novels today offer language as solution to the problem of language. Thus it suggests a new way of reading "antihumanist" late postmodern fiction, and a framework for understanding postmodern and twenty-first century fiction as participating in a long and newly enlivened tradition of humanism and realism in literature.

Author : Mary K. Holland
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441159342

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Succeeding Postmodernism by Mary K. Holland Pdf

While critics collect around the question of what comes "after postmodernism," this book asks something different about recent American fiction: what if we are seeing not the end of postmodernism but its belated success? Succeeding Postmodernism examines how novels by DeLillo, Wallace, Danielewski, Foer and others conceptualize threats to individuals and communities posed by a poststructural culture of mediation and simulation, and possible ways of resisting the disaffected solipsism bred by that culture. Ultimately it finds that twenty-first century American fiction sets aside the postmodern problem of how language does or does not mean in order to raise the reassuringly retro question of what it can and does mean: it finds that novels today offer language as solution to the problem of language. Thus it suggests a new way of reading "antihumanist" late postmodern fiction, and a framework for understanding postmodern and twenty-first century fiction as participating in a long and newly enlivened tradition of humanism and realism in literature.

Author : Matt Graham
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781040091135

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Postmodernism, Twenty-First Century Culture, and American Fiction by Matt Graham Pdf

Postmodernism’s ‘end’ is a complex and contentious topic. Yet, one overarching consensus emerges: the postmodern has been surpassed. This book poses a thought experiment challenging this position – what if postmodernism persists within the twenty-first century? Rather than designate a new epoch or coherent movement, this book interrogates the fragmented, contradictory, and counterintuitive endurance of postmodern aesthetics within post-Cold War America. An alternative use of postmodern aesthetics becomes possible when they are decoupled from their twentieth-century historical location. Collectively, these repetitions posit a postmodern continuum, contrasting the widely called-for succession of postmodernism via this decoupling. When postmodern aesthetics are no longer unconsciously repeated within their cultural moment, this emergent shift within a period ‘after’ postmodernism presents an alternative historical positioning and use. After their cultural vanguard, postmodern aesthetics become a confrontation of the chaotic realism of an inescapable post-Cold War capitalism, tapping into this cultural zeitgeist through literature.

Author : Matthew Mullins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190459505

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Postmodernism in Pieces by Matthew Mullins Pdf

'Postmodernism in Pieces' performs a postmortem on what is perhaps the most contested paradigm in literary studies, breaking postmodernism down into its most fundamental orthodoxies and reassembling it piece by piece in light of recent theoretical developments in actor-network-theory, object-oriented philosophy, new materialism, and posthumanism.

Author : Christopher K. Coffman,Theophilus Savvas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 42,9 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.

Author : Brian McHale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107021259

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The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodernism by Brian McHale Pdf

This Introduction surveys the full spectrum of postmodern culture, from architecture and visual art to fiction, poetry, and drama.

Author : Eileen Pollard,Berthold Schoene
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107121423

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British Literature in Transition, 1980–2000 by Eileen Pollard,Berthold Schoene Pdf

This volume shows how British literature recorded contemporaneous historical change. It traces the emergence and evolution of literary trends from 1980-2000.

Author : Paula Geyh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107103443

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The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern American Fiction by Paula Geyh Pdf

This Companion is an authoritative, comprehensive, and accessible guide to the key works, genres, and movements of postmodern American fiction.

Author : T.V. Reed
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350010826

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The Bloomsbury Introduction to Postmodern Realist Fiction by T.V. Reed Pdf

Postmodern realist fiction uses realism-disrupting literary techniques to make interventions into the real social conditions of our time. It seeks to capture the complex, fragmented nature of contemporary experience while addressing crucial issues like income inequality, immigration, the climate crisis, terrorism, ever-changing technologies, shifting racial, sex and gender roles, and the rise of new forms of authoritarianism. A lucid, comprehensive introduction to the genre as well as to a wide variety of voices, this book discusses more than forty writers from a diverse range of backgrounds, and over several decades, with special attention to 21st-century novels. Writers covered include: Kathy Acker, Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche, Julia Alvarez, Sherman Alexie, Gloria Anzaldua, Margaret Atwood, Toni Cade Bambara, A.S. Byatt, Octavia Butler, Angela Carter, Ana Castillo, Don DeLillo, Junot Diaz, Jennifer Egan, Awaeki Emezi, Mohsin Hamid, Jessica Hagedorn, Maxine Hong Kingston, Ursula K. Le Guin, Daisy Johnson, Bharati Mukherjee, Toni Morrison, Vladimir Nabokov, Tommy Orange, Ruth Ozeki, Ishmael Reed, Eden Robinson, Salman Rushdie, Jean Rhys, Leslie Marmon Silko, Art Spiegelman, Kurt Vonnegut, and Jeannette Winterson, among others.

Author : Alan Kirby
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781441110961

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Digimodernism by Alan Kirby Pdf

A bold new challenge to postmodern theory The increasing irrelevance of postmodernism requires a new theory to underpin our current digital culture. Almost without anybody noticing, a new cultural paradigm has taken center stage, displacing an exhausted and increasingly marginalized postmodernism. Alan Kirby calls this cultural paradigm digimodernism, a name comprising both its central technical mode and the privileging of fingers and thumbs inherent in its use. Beginning with the Internet (digimodernism's most important locus), then taking into account television, cinema, computer games, music, radio, etc., Kirby analyzes the emergence and implications of these diverse media, coloring our cultural landscape with new ideas on texts and how they work. This new kind of text produces distinctive forms of author and reader/viewer, which, in turn, lead to altered notions of authority, 'truth' and legitimization. With users intervening physically in the creation of texts, our electronically-dependent society is becoming more involved in the grand narrative. To clarify these trends, Kirby compares them to the contrasting tendencies of the preceding postmodern era. In defining this new cultural age, the author avoids both facile euphoria and pessimistic fatalism, aiming instead to understand and thereby gain control of a cultural mode which seems, as though from nowhere, to have engulfed our society. With new technologies unfolding almost daily, this work will help to categorize and explain our new digital world and our place in it, as well as equip us with a better understanding of the digital technologies that have a massive impact on our culture.

Author : David Rudrum,Nicholas Stavris
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501306884

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Supplanting the Postmodern by David Rudrum,Nicholas Stavris Pdf

For more than a decade now a steadily growing chorus of voices has announced that the 'postmodern' literature, art, thought and culture of the late 20th century have come to an end. At the same time as this, the early years of the 21st century have seen a stream of critical formulations proclaiming a successor to postmodernism. Intriguing and exciting new terms such as 'remodernism', 'performatism', 'hypermodernism', 'automodernism”, 'renewalism', 'altermodernism', 'digimodernism' and 'metamodernism' have been coined, proposed and debated as terms for what comes after the postmodern. Supplanting the Postmodern is the first anthology to collect the key writings in these debates in one place. The book is divided into two parts: the first, 'The Sense of an Ending', presents a range of positions in the debate around the demise of the postmodern; the second, 'Coming to Terms with the New', presents representative writings from the new '–isms' mentioned above. Each of the entries is prefaced by a brief introduction by the editors, in which they outline its central ideas, point out the similarities and/or differences from other positions found in the anthology, and suggest possible strengths and limitations to the insights presented in each piece.

Author : Stuart J. Taylor
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031486715

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Mathematics in Postmodern American Fiction by Stuart J. Taylor Pdf

Author : Jan Alber,Alice Bell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000388459

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Fact and Fiction in Contemporary Narratives by Jan Alber,Alice Bell Pdf

This book explores the complex interrelationship between fact and fiction in narratives of the twenty-first century. Current cultural theory observes a cultural shift away from postmodernism to new forms of expression. Rather than a radical break from the postmodern, however, postmodernist techniques are repurposed to express a new sincerity, a purposeful self-reflexivity, a contemporary sense of togetherness and an associated commitment to reality. In what the editors consider to be one manifestation of this general tendency, this book explores the ways in which contemporary texts across different media play with the boundary between fact and fiction. This includes the examination of novels, autobiography, autofiction, film, television, mockumentary, digital fiction, advertising campaigns and media hoaxes. The chapters engage with theories of what comes after postmodernism and analyse the narratological, stylistic and/or semiotic devices on which such texts rely. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the European Journal of English Studies.

Author : M. Latham
Publisher : Springer
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137490803

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A Poetics of Postmodernism and Neomodernism by M. Latham Pdf

This new book examines how a range of authors today perpetuate Virginia Woolf's literary legacy, by creating new forms adapted to their new ages and audiences. Addressing questions about the current penchant for refashioning our canon in order to update, this book will be valuable reading for both students and scholars of Woolf.

Author : Stephen J. Burn,Mary K. Holland
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603293921

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Approaches to Teaching the Works of David Foster Wallace by Stephen J. Burn,Mary K. Holland Pdf

David Foster Wallace's works engage with his literary moment--roughly summarized as postmodernism--and with the author's historical context. From his famously complex fiction to essays critical of American culture, Wallace's works have at their core essential human concerns such as self-understanding, connecting with others, ethical behavior, and finding meaning. The essays in this volume suggest ways to elucidate Wallace's philosophical and literary preoccupations for today's students, who continue to contend with urgent issues, both personal and political, through reading literature. Part 1, "Materials," offers guidance on biographical, contextual, and archival sources and critical responses to Wallace's writing. The essays in part 2, "Approaches," discuss teaching key works and genres in high school settings, first-year undergraduate writing classes, American literature surveys, seminars on Wallace, and world literature courses. They examine Wallace's social and philosophical contexts and contributions, treating topics such as gender, literary ethics, and the culture of writing programs.