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Author : Jaroslav Kušnír
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (118 download)
Download or read book American Fiction: Modernism-Postmodernism, Popular Culture, and Metafiction written by Jaroslav Kušnír and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jaroslav Kušnír
Publisher : ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press
ISBN 13 : 3838255143
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (382 download)
Download or read book American Fiction: Modernism-Postmodernism, Popular Culture, and Metafiction written by Jaroslav Kušnír and published by ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Jaroslav Kušnír
Publisher : ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press
ISBN 13 : 3838255135
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (382 download)
Download or read book Ideology and Aesthetics in American Literature and Arts written by Jaroslav Kušnír and published by ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book includes contributions by African, East and West European, Asian and North American scholars which deal with and compare ideological and non-ideological approaches to the analysis of literary, artistic as well as popular works (popular music) mostly by American authors. Most of the essays deal with a way various aspects of American identity are depicted, represented, treated, ideologized and aestheticized in different literary genres, forms of art and media. The contributions offer multidisciplinary, cross-cultural and comparative perspectives and represent a diversity of scholarly voices ranging from the general discussion on the relationship between ideology and art (Anton Pokrivčák), ideology and multiculturalism (Cristina Garrigós). They also give the analysis of poetry (Pokrivčák, Obododima Oha), postmodern fiction (Pi-Hua Ni, Cristina Garrigós), drama (Zoe Detsi-Diamanti, Csaba Csapó) as well as the comparative analysis of the depiction of the identity of North American Indians in such different media as literature and film (Michal Peprník). In addition to this, the book includes the analysis of Black rap music (Wojciech Kallas).
Author : Christopher K. Coffman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000289117
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book After Postmodernism written by Christopher K. Coffman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-18 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Gerhard Hoffmann
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9401202427
Total Pages : 750 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)
Download or read book From Modernism to Postmodernism written by Gerhard Hoffmann and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Ray B. Browne
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786453451
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Popular Culture Values and the Arts written by Ray B. Browne and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In countries around the world, the rise of class divisions and unbridled capitalism are changing the conventional definitions of art and esthetics. Historically, the philanthropy of the elite has played a leading role in supporting, funding, and distributing artistic works. While such measures may be pure in intent, many worry that private funding may be gentrifying the arts and creating a situation in which art will only be valued for its prestige or, worse, its price tag. This collection of essays examines the current movement to democratize the arts and make the world of artistic endeavor open and accessible to all. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Author : Carl Darryl Malmgren
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838750674
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Fictional Space in the Modernist and Post-modernist American Novel written by Carl Darryl Malmgren and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fictional space is the imaginal expanse of field created by fictional discourse; a space which, through ultimately self-referential and self-validating, necessarily exists in ascertainable relation to the real world outside the text. After defining his theoretical framework the author applies it to American fiction of the twentieth century.
Author : Nicholas Birns
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 9781571133496
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (334 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Australian Literature Since 1900 written by Nicholas Birns and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2007 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh twenty-first century look at Australian literature in a broad, inclusive and multicultural sense.
Author : María Laura Arce
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476624909
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Paul Auster and the Influence of Maurice Blanchot written by María Laura Arce and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poet, writer and filmmaker Paul Auster is one of the great contributors to American postmodern literature. Influenced by authors like Poe and the hardboiled detective stories of the 1950s, Auster’s novels represented a new genre of “anti-detective fiction,” in which the case itself loses direction and is overshadowed by existential questions. Analyzing three of his novels—Ghosts (1986), The Music of Chance (1990) and Mr. Vertigo (1994)—this critical study explores the intertextual relationship between Auster’s work and the oeuvre of French writer and critic Maurice Blanchot. The author explores Auster’s work as a fictionalization of Blanchot’s concept of inspiration and the construction of imaginary space.
Author : Geoffrey William Lord
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042001169
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Postmodernism and Notions of National Difference written by Geoffrey William Lord and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1996 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042000711
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Powerless Fictions? written by Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1996 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matthew Sweney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Popular Culture and Democracy written by Matthew Sweney and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Manfred Pütz
Publisher : Darmstadt : Thesen Verlag
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Postmodernism in American Literature written by Manfred Pütz and published by Darmstadt : Thesen Verlag. This book was released on 1984 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Theo d'. Haen
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042003071
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book 'Closing the Gap' written by Theo d'. Haen and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1997 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alsen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900465898X
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Romantic Postmodernism in American Fiction written by Alsen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-12-21 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : María Laura Arce Álvarez
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498561640
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Paul Auster's Ghosts written by María Laura Arce Álvarez and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-06-13 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an intertextual study of Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy focusing on the influence of the main authors of the American Renaissance and the modern European tradition, represented by Samuel Beckett and Maurice Blanchot.
Author : Andrea Strolz
Publisher : ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press
ISBN 13 : 3838256433
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (382 download)
Download or read book Escaping from the Prison-House of Language and Digging for Meanings in Texts among Texts: Metafiction and Intertextuality in Margaret Atwood’s Novels Lady Oracle and The Blind Assassin written by Andrea Strolz and published by ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press. This book was released on 2012-02-13 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Atwood's novels are photographs of her characters' lives: while words only ever describe her protagonists’ blurred visions of their pasts, their 'true' stories are told in subtexts which run parallel or even contrary to the main story line and which depict the unseen, the buried, the 'untrue'. Replete with intertextual references, her fiction illuminates that and why "[w]hat isn’t there has a presence, like the absence of light" (The Blind Assassin). She plays with our conventional modes of perception to make us aware of the way we frame reality in our minds. Andrea Strolz discusses in her book the interrelation between metafictional and intertextual features in two of Atwood's novels that share many similarities, even though written in different decades. She examines how Atwood weaves intertextual references into her fiction, how she facilitates a reader's recognition of the intertexts, and she shows that Atwood's narrator-protagonists also reflect on our age as one of intertextuality.
