Constructing Postmodernism
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Constructing Postmodernism
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Author : Brian McHale
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-11-12
Constructing Postmodernism written by Brian McHale and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
The Cambridge Introduction To Postmodernism
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Author : Brian McHale
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-06-26
The Cambridge Introduction To Postmodernism written by Brian McHale and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
This Introduction surveys the full spectrum of postmodern culture, from architecture and visual art to fiction, poetry, and drama.
Postmodernist Fiction
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Author : Brian McHale
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 1987
Postmodernist Fiction written by Brian McHale and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Literary Criticism categories.
Postmodernism is not a found object, but a manufactured artifact. Beginning from this constructivist premise Brian McHale develops a series of readings of problematically postmodernist novels - Joyce's Ulysses, Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow and Vineland, Eco's The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum, the novels of Joseph McElroy and Christine Brooke-Rose, avant-garde works such as Kathy Acker's Empire of the Senseless, and the works of cyberpunk science-fiction by William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Lewis Shiner, Rudy Rucker and others. Although mainly focused on 'high' or 'elite' cultural products - 'art' novels - Constructing Postmodernism relates these products to such phenomena of postmodern popular culture as television and the cinema, paranoia and nuclear apocalypse, angelology and the cybernetic interface, and death, now as always (in spite of what Captain Kirk says) the true Final Frontier. McHale's previous book, Postmodernist Fiction, had seemed to propose a single, all-inclusive inventory of postmodernist poetics. This book, by contrast, proposes multiple, overlapping and interesting inventories - not a construction of postmodernism, but a plurality of constructions. - Publisher.
The Truth About The Truth
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Author : Walt Anderson
language : en
Publisher: TarcherPerigee
Release Date : 1995-08-30
The Truth About The Truth written by Walt Anderson and has been published by TarcherPerigee this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-08-30 with Philosophy categories.
"One can rarely read or hear commentary on art, popular culture, society, literature, or politics these days without being confronted by the mysterious term 'postmodern.' Unlike any other artistic, critical, or philosophical movement in history, postmodernism has come charging out of the ivory tower and into the minds and mouths of the public. The postmodern lens is now the one through which we all are expected to be able to view the world, but how many of us know what this really means? The tenets of postmodernism are much more than a trendy system of thought or an academic dialogue. Rather, they offer practical tools for coming to terms with a world composed of vast amounts of unsettling information, daily interactions with unfamiliar cultures and beliefs, and a continuous and overwhelming set of choices. [This book] is a stimulating and accessible exploration of the complexities of postmodern thought--constructivism, deconstruction, irony, pluralism, multiculturalism--as diverse as the world it describes. Readers will discover the roots of postmodernism, what it does to cultural symbols and differences, and how it affects psychology, religion, and science in essays both profoundly serious and thoroughly entertaining. [The editor] acts as a guide to this difficult terrain by leading readers through each essay, describing new and provocative ideas in detail, dispelling confusion, and, most important, showing what this thinking has to offer everyone. [This book] is an indispensable handbook for the new cultural literacy of our emerging postmodern world"--
The Illicit Joyce Of Postmodernism
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Author : Kevin J. H. Dettmar
language : en
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Release Date : 1996
The Illicit Joyce Of Postmodernism written by Kevin J. H. Dettmar and has been published by Univ of Wisconsin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Literary Criticism categories.
For nearly three quarters of a century, the modernist way of reading has been the only way of reading Joyce - useful, yes, and powerful but, like all frameworks, limited. This book takes a leap across those limits into postmodernism, where the pleasures and possibilities of an unsuspected Joyce are yet to be found. Kevin J. H. Dettmar begins by articulating a stylistics of postmodernism drawn from the key texts of Roland Barthes, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Jean-Francois Lyotard. Read within this framework, Dubliners emerges from behind its modernist facade as the earliest product of Joyce's proto-post-modernist sensibility. Dettmar exposes these stories as tales of mystery, not mastery, despite the modernist earmarks of plentiful symbols, allusions, and epiphanies. Ulysses, too, has been inadequately served by modernist critics. Where they have emphasized the work's ingenious Homeric structure, Dettmar focuses instead upon its seams, those points at which the narrative willfully, joyfully overflows its self-imposed bounds. Finally, he reads A Portrait of the Artist and Finnegans Wake as less playful, less daring texts - the first constrained by the precious, would be poet at its center, the last marking a surprising retreat from the constantly evolving, vertiginous experience of Ulysses.
The Cambridge History Of Postmodern Literature
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Author : Brian McHale
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2016-03-22
The Cambridge History Of Postmodern Literature written by Brian McHale and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Cambridge History of Postmodern Literature offers a comprehensive survey of the field, from its emergence in the mid-twentieth century to the present day. It offers an unparalleled examination of all facets of postmodern writing that helps readers to understand how fiction and poetry, literary criticism, feminist theory, mass media, and the visual and fine arts have characterized the historical development of postmodernism. Covering subjects from the Cold War and countercultures to the Latin American Boom and magic realism, this History traces the genealogy of a literary tradition while remaining grounded in current scholarship. It also presents new critical approaches to postmodern literature that will serve the needs of students and specialists alike. Written by a host of leading scholars, this History will not only engage readers in contemporary debates but also serve as a definitive reference for years to come.
The A To Z Of Postmodernist Literature And Theater
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Author : Fran Mason
language : en
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2009-07-23
The A To Z Of Postmodernist Literature And Theater written by Fran Mason and has been published by Scarecrow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
Postmodernist literature embraces a wide range of forms and perspectives, including texts that are primarily self-reflexive; texts that use pastiche, burlesque, parody, intertextuality and hybrid forms to create textual realities that either run in opposition to or in parallel with an external reality; fabulations that develop both of these strategies; texts that ironize their relationship to reality; works that use the aspects already noted to more fully engage with political or cultural realities; texts that deal with history as a fiction; and texts that elude categorization even within the variety already explored. For example, in fiction, a postmodernist novel might tell a story about a writer struggling with writing (only, perhaps, to find that he is a character in a book by another writer struggling to write a book). The A to Z of Postmodernist Literature and Theater examines the different areas of postmodernist literature and the variety of forms that have been produced. This is accomplished through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and several hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries on individual 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. 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 century operates.
Postmodernism And Notions Of National Difference
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Author : Geoffrey William Lord
language : en
Publisher: Rodopi
Release Date : 1996
Postmodernism And Notions Of National Difference written by Geoffrey William Lord and has been published by Rodopi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with American fiction categories.
Postmodernism and Notions of National Differenceexamines the critical construction of postmodern fiction raising the question of whether the construction of postmodernism has sufficiently accounted for national difference. Geoffrey Lord argues that current meta-national conceptions of postmodernism need serious reconsideration to take national cultural contexts into account. Through a comparative investigation of the theoretical debate, literary traditions and close textual reading of a number of postmodern texts, Lord makes a persuasive case for his broad claim that national cultural differences are more persistent and powerful than usually allowed by established theories of postmodernity which claim a general collapse of traditional cultural orders and the meta-narratives that justify them.
Return To Postmodernism
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Author : Klaus Stierstorfer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Return To Postmodernism written by Klaus Stierstorfer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Postmodernism (Literature) categories.
Curved Thought And Textual Wandering
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Author : Ellen E. Berry
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 1992
Curved Thought And Textual Wandering written by Ellen E. Berry and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Fiction categories.
This wide-ranging and provocative study traces Gertrude Stein's production of avant-garde texts that radically disrupted traditional notions of how fiction should be defined, valued, and read. The book combines feminist and postmodern perspectives to illuminate new facets of Stein's novels and to situate them within an expanded definition of the postmodern. The author argues that if we fail to consider the contexts within which postmodern innovations occur, and if we subsume all formal disruptions under a generalized postmodern mode, we obscure important differences among authors and distort the notion of the postmodern itself. The study expands our understanding of Stein as a novelist and a narrative theorist, repositions her work within a revised notion of literary history, and thus clarifies points of relation and divergence between modernism and postmodernism. It also assists in the historicizing of the postmodern literary emergence by insisting on the centrality of gender as a category of analysis. Finally, it argues for the importance of constructing definitions of postmodernism that will allow space to consider the complexity and diversity of its cultural practices. Curved Thought and Textual Wandering will be welcomed by scholars of modernism, of Gertrude Stein, and of feminist and narrative theory and postmodern culture.