The Dilemma Of Postmodern American Fiction
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The Dilemma Of Postmodern American Fiction
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Author : Stephanie S. Kay
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
The Dilemma Of Postmodern American Fiction written by Stephanie S. Kay and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with American fiction categories.
From Modernism To Postmodernism
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Author : Gerhard Hoffmann
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2016-08-01
From Modernism To Postmodernism written by Gerhard Hoffmann and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-01 with Social Science categories.
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.
The Play Of The Double In Postmodern American Fiction
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Author : Gordon Slethaug
language : en
Publisher: SIU Press
Release Date : 1993
The Play Of The Double In Postmodern American Fiction written by Gordon Slethaug and has been published by SIU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Fiction categories.
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.
After Postmodernism
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Author : Christopher K. Coffman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-12-17
After Postmodernism written by Christopher K. Coffman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-17 with Literary Collections categories.
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 Puritanism To Postmodernism
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Author : Richard Ruland
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-14
From Puritanism To Postmodernism written by Richard Ruland and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Powerless Fictions
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Author : Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso
language : en
Publisher: Rodopi
Release Date : 1996
Powerless Fictions written by Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso 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 History categories.
Romantic Postmodernism In American Fiction
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Author : Alsen
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-12-21
Romantic Postmodernism In American Fiction written by Alsen and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-21 with History categories.
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.
Postmodernism In American Literature
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Author : Manfred Pütz
language : de
Publisher: Darmstadt : Thesen Verlag
Release Date : 1984
Postmodernism In American Literature written by Manfred Pütz and has been published by Darmstadt : Thesen Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with American literature categories.
On Endings
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Author : Daniel Grausam
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2011
On Endings written by Daniel Grausam and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with History categories.
What does narrative look like when the possibility of an expansive future has been called into question? This query is the driving force behind Daniel Grausam's On Endings, which seeks to show how the core texts of American postmodernism are a response to the geopolitical dynamics of the Cold War and especially to the new potential for total nuclear conflict. Postwar American fiction needs to be rethought, he argues, by highlighting postmodern experimentation as a mode of profound historical consciousness. In Grausam's view, previous studies of fiction mimetically concerned with nuclear conflict neither engage the problems that total war might pose to narration nor take seriously the paradox of a war that narrative can never actually describe. Those few critical works that do take seriously such problems do not offer a broad account of American postmodernism. And recent work on postmodernism has offered no comprehensive historical account of the part played by nuclear weapons in the emergence of new forms of temporal and historical experience. On Endings significantly extends the project of historicizing postmodernism while returning the nuclear to a central place in the study of the Cold War.
Postmodern American Fiction
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Author : Andrew Levy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994-05-01
Postmodern American Fiction written by Andrew Levy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-05-01 with categories.