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Author : Theo d'. Haen
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789051836530
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (365 download)
Download or read book British Postmodern Fiction written by Theo d'. Haen and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1993 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bran Nicol
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139483110
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodern Fiction written by Bran Nicol and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postmodern fiction presents a challenge to the reader: instead of enjoying it passively, the reader has to work to understand its meanings, to think about what fiction is, and to question their own responses. Yet this very challenge makes postmodern writing so much fun to read and rewarding to study. Unlike most introductions to postmodernism and fiction, this book places the emphasis on literature rather than theory. It introduces the most prominent British and American novelists associated with postmodernism, from the 'pioneers', Beckett, Borges and Burroughs, to important post-war writers such as Pynchon, Carter, Atwood, Morrison, Gibson, Auster, DeLillo, and Ellis. Designed for students and clearly written, this Introduction explains the preoccupations, styles and techniques that unite postmodern authors. Their work is characterized by a self-reflexive acknowledgement of its status as fiction, and by the various ways in which it challenges readers to question common-sense and commonplace assumptions about literature.
Author : Brian McHale
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134949162
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Postmodernist Fiction written by Brian McHale and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this trenchant and lively study Brian McHale undertakes to construct a version of postmodernist fiction which encompasses forms as wide-ranging as North American metafiction, Latin American magic realism, the French New New Novel, concrete prose and science fiction. Considering a variety of theoretical approaches including those of Ingarden, Eco, Dolezel, Pavel, and Hrushovski, McHale shows that the common denominator is postmodernist fiction's ability to thrust its own ontological status into the foreground and to raise questions about the world (or worlds) in which we live. Exploiting various theoretical approaches to literary ontology - those of Ingarden, Eco, Dolezel, Pavel, Hrushovski and others - and ranging widely over contemporary world literature, McHale assembles a comprehensive repertoire of postmodernist fiction's strategies of world-making and -unmaking.
Author : Bridgit McCafferty
Publisher : Literary Research: Strategies and Sources
ISBN 13 : 9781442254152
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (541 download)
Download or read book Literary Research and British Postmodernism written by Bridgit McCafferty and published by Literary Research: Strategies and Sources. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Research and British Postmodernism is a guide for researchers of postwar British literature that defines best practices for scholars conducting research in this period. Individual chapters connect the complex relationships between print and multimedia, technological a...
Author : Len Platt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107042488
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Postmodern Literature and Race written by Len Platt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-19 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postmodernism and Race explores the question of how dramatic shifts in conceptions of race in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have been addressed by writers at the cutting edge of equally dramatic transformations of literary form. An opening section engages with the broad question of how the geographical and political positioning of experimental writing informs its contribution to racial discourses, while later segments focus on central critical domains within this field: race and performativity, race and the contemporary nation, and postracial futures. With essays on a wide range of contemporary writers, including Bernadine Evaristo, Alasdair Gray, Jhumpa Lahiri, Andrea Levy, and Don DeLillo, this volume makes an important contribution to our understanding of the politics and aesthetics of contemporary writing.
Author : C. Baker
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230290442
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Madness in Post-1945 British and American Fiction written by C. Baker and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-10-14 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and thematic exploration of representations of madness in postwar British and American Fiction, this book is relevant to those with interests in literary studies and is a vital read for psychiatric clinicians and professionals who are interested in how literature can inform and enhance clinical practices.
Author : Paul Smethurst
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042015135
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (151 download)
Download or read book The Postmodern Chronotope written by Paul Smethurst and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2000 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Postmodern Chronotope is an innovative interdisciplinary study of the contemporary. It will be of special interest to anyone interested in relations between postmodernism, geography and contemporary fiction. Some claim that postmodernism questions history and historical bases to culture; some say it is about loss of affect, loss of depth models, and superficiality; others claim it follows from the conditions of post-industrial society; and others cite commodification of place, Disneyfication, simulation and post-tourist spectacle as evidence that postmodernism is wedded to late capitalism. Whatever postmodernism is, or turns out to have been, it is bound up in rethinking and reworking space and time, and Paul Smethurst's intervention here is to introduce the postmodern chronotope as a term through which these spatial and temporal shifts might be apprehended. The postmodern chronotope constitutes a postmodern world-view and postmodern way of seeing. In a sense it is the natural successor to a modernist way of seeing defined through cubism, montage and relativity. The book is arranged as follows: - Part 1 is an interdisciplinary study casting a wide net across a range of cultural, social and scientific activity, from chaos theory to cinema, from architecture to performance art, from IT to tourism. - Part 2 offers original readings of a selection of postmodern novels, including Graham Swift's Waterland and Out of this World, Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor and First Light, Alasdair Gray's Lanark, J. M. Coetzee's Foe, Marina Warner's Indigo, Caryl Phillips' Cambridge, and Don DeLillo's The Names and Ratner's Star.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9401208301
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Refracting the Canon in Contemporary British Literature and Film written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary works of art that remodel the canon not only create complex, hybrid and plural products but also alter our perceptions and understanding of their source texts. This is the dual process, referred to in this volume as “refraction”, that the essays collected here set out to discuss and analyse by focusing on the dialectic rapport between postmodernism and the canon. What is sought in many of the essays is a redefinition of postmodernist art and a re-examination of the canon in the light of contemporary epistemology. Given this dual process, this volume will be of value both to everyone interested in contemporary art—particularly fiction, drama and film—and also to readers whose aim it is to promote a better appreciation of canonical British literature.
Author : Alison Lee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317634934
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Realism and Power (Routledge Revivals) written by Alison Lee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1990, this study focuses on the subversive techniques of British postmodernist fiction and examines its challenge to Realist traditions, and the liberal humanist ideology behind it. Exploring the concept of literary postmodernism, and the strategies and philosophies to which it has given rise, Alison Lee investigates how they are developed in a selection of contemporary British novels, including Midnight’s Children, Waterland, Flaubert’s Parrot, and Lanark. Postmodernism is considered in relation to history, the visual and performing arts, popular culture, including advertising, music videos, and popular fiction, notably Stephen King’s Misery. A detailed and comprehensive study, this reissue of Realism and Power will be essential reading for students of literary and cultural studies.
Author : Christian Gutleben
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004488359
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Nostalgic Postmodernism written by Christian Gutleben and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do so many contemporary British novels revert to the Victorian tradition in order to find a new source of inspiration? What does it mean from an ideological point of view to build a modern form of art by resurrecting and recycling an art of the past? From a formal point of view what are the aesthetic priorities established by these postmodernist novels? Those are the main questions tackled by this study intended for anybody interested in the aesthetic and ideological evolution of very recent fiction. What this analysis ultimately proposes is a reevaluation and a redefinition of postmodernism such as it is illustrated by the British novels which paradoxically both praise and mock, honour and debunk, imitate and subvert their Victorian models. Unashamedly opportunistic and deliberately exploiting the spirit of the time, this late form of postmodernism cannibalizes and reshapes not only Victorianism but all the other previous aesthetic movements - including early postmodernism.
Author : Aleid Fokkema
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789051832693
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (326 download)
Download or read book Postmodern Characters written by Aleid Fokkema and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1991 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Karen Joy Fowler
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141918381
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Case of the Imaginary Detective written by Karen Joy Fowler and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rima Lanisell has a habit of losing things - car keys, sunglasses, lovers, family members. Following the death of Rima's father, she goes to stay with her godmother Addison, a wildly successful, albeit eccentric, mystery writer. Addison's beach house seems the place to make sense of Rima's loss, yet she is soon caught up in a mystery of her own. Who stole a small and highly valuable object from Addison's kitchen? Why is Rima corresponding with an obsessive fan, using someone else's family name? Most importantly: what exactly was the relationship between Addison and Rima's father, and why did Addison name a murderer after him in one of her novels? A funny, sad and wise literary mystery from the author of The Jane Austen Book Club.
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Publisher : Brill
ISBN 13 : 9401208328
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Short Story in English written by and published by Brill. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can the short story help to redefine modernism, postmodernism and their interrelationship? What is the status of the short story in modern literary history? These are the central questions that the essays collected in this volume try to answer from different perspectives through readings of short fiction in English and accounts of the genre’s theorisations. The essays by a group of international scholars tackle theoretical issues that are central in approaches to both “movements” such as periodisation, autonomy, high vs. popular literature, totality vs. fragmentation, surface vs. depth, otherness, representation, and, above all, the subject and its vicissitudes. Because it blends theory-based arguments into the approaches to the short fiction of mainly canonical authors (Joyce, Woolf, Lewis, Ballard, Carter, Rushdie, or Wallace), Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Short Story in English is of interest not only to readers and scholars of the short story, but also to those coming from the fields of literary theory and literary history.
Author : Theo d'. Haen
Publisher : Editions Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789051836639
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (366 download)
Download or read book British Postmodern Fiction written by Theo d'. Haen and published by Editions Rodopi. This book was released on 1993 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Suzanne Keen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802086846
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (868 download)
Download or read book Romances of the Archive in Contemporary British Fiction written by Suzanne Keen and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed examination of the growing genre of British fiction featuring archives and archival research, from A.S. Byatt's Booker Prize-winning Possession to the paperback thrillers of popular novelists.
Author : Hywel Dix
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441190988
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Postmodern Fiction and the Break-Up of Britain written by Hywel Dix and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores how British identity has been explored and renegotiated by contemporary writers. It starts by examining the new emphasis on space and place that has emerged in recent cultural analysis, and shows how this spatial emphasis informs different literary texts. Having first analysed a series of novels that draw an implicit parallel between the end of the British Empire and the break-up of the unitary British state, the study explores how contemporary writing in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales contributes to a sense of nationhood in those places, and so contributes to the break-up of Britain symbolically. Dix argues that the break-up of Britain is not limited to political devolution in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. It is also an imaginary process that can be found occurring on a number of other conceptual coordinates. Feminism, class, regional identities and ethnic communities are all terrains on which different writers carry out a fictional questioning of received notions of Britishness and so contribute in different ways to the break-up of Britain.
Author : Bridgit McCafferty
Publisher : Literary Research: Strategies and Sources
ISBN 13 : 9781442254169
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (541 download)
Download or read book Literary Research and British Postmodernism written by Bridgit McCafferty and published by Literary Research: Strategies and Sources. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Research and British Postmodernism is a guide for researchers of postwar British literature that defines best practices for scholars conducting research in this period. Individual chapters connect the complex relationships between print and multimedia, technological a...
