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Postmodernist Fiction

Author : Brian McHale
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134949162
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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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.

The Fiction of Postmodernity

Author : Stephen Baker
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742501997
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Fiction of Postmodernity written by Stephen Baker and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fiction of Postmodernity is a significant and accessible study of the relation of postmodern fiction to theories of the postmodern. Contemporary works of fiction by novelists such as Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, Thomas Pynchon, and Martin Amis are viewed in relation to critiques of the "culture industry," analyses of the "postmodern condition," and theories of simulacra. The work of influential theorists of the postmodern--such as Theodor Adorno, Jean-François Lyotard, Fredric Jameson and Jean Baudrillard--is explained and compared. The book offers descriptions of the postmodern from both the Marxist critical tradition and from the perspective of postmarxism. Key features in both these definitions are explained in relation to modernist and postmodern works of fiction. Issues relating to the postmodern representation of history and the development of a postmodern politics are also addressed in relation to works of contemporary fiction.

The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodern Fiction

Author : Bran Nicol
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521861578
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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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: A lucid exploration of the key features of postmodernism and the most important authors from Beckett to DeLillo.

World Postmodern Fiction

Author : Cristopher Nash
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book World Postmodern Fiction written by Cristopher Nash and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1993 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do students make sense of the mass of Post-modern literature? Now available for the first time in paperback, this acclaimed volume analyses the common themes and strategies of Post-modern fiction, providing a framework in which it can be properly addressed and understood.

Late Postmodernism

Author : J. Green
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403980403
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Late Postmodernism written by J. Green and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-05-12 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does the novel have a future? Questions of this kind, which are as old as the novel itself, acquired a fresh urgency at the end of the twentieth-century with the rise of new media and the relegation of literature to the margins of American culture. As a result, anxieties about readership, cultural authority and literary value have come to preoccupy a second generation of postmodern novelists. Through close analysis of several major novels of the past decade, including works by Don DeLillo, Philip Roth, Kathryn Davis, Jonathan Franzen and Richard Powers, Late Postmodernism examines the forces shaping contemporary literature and the remarkable strategies American writers have adopted to make sense of their place in culture.

The Fiction of Postmodernity

Author : Stephen Baker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Fiction of Postmodernity written by Stephen Baker and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fiction of Postmodernity is a significant and accessible new study of the relation of postmodern fiction to theories of the postmodern. Contemporary works of fiction by novelists such as Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, Thomas Pynchon and Martin Amis are viewed in relation to critiques of the 'culture industry', analyses of the 'postmodern condition' and theories of simulacra. The work of influential theorists of the postmodern - such as Theodor Adorno, Jean-François Lyotard, Fredric Jameson and Jean Baudrillard - is explained and compared.The book offers descriptions of the postmodern from both the Marxist critical tradition and from the perspective of postmarxism. Key features in both these definitions are explained in relation to modernist and postmodern works of fiction. Issues relating to the postmodern representation of history and the development of a postmodern politics are also addressed in relation to works of contemporary fiction.Key Features*Substantial readings of fiction by major contemporary authors (e.g. Thomas Pynchon, Salman Rushdie, Don DeLillo)*Introduces influential theories of the postmodern (Fredric Jameson, Jean-François Lyotard, Jean Baudrillard)*Analysis of the relationships of modernism and the avant-garde to postmodernism*Focuses on the critical potential of postmodernism and postmodern fiction

Doom Patrols

Author : Steven Shaviro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Doom Patrols written by Steven Shaviro and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hot new West Coast voice on the Cultural Studies scene

Postmodern American Fiction

Author : Paula Geyh
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393316988
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book Postmodern American Fiction written by Paula Geyh and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1998 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects works by sixty-eight authors, including William S. Burroughs, Kurt Vonnegut, Art Spiegelman, Lynda Barry, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Douglas Coupland

The Cinematic Novel and Postmodern Pop Fiction

Author : Décio Torres Cruz
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027261814
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book The Cinematic Novel and Postmodern Pop Fiction written by Décio Torres Cruz and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Décio Torres Cruz approaches connections between literature and cinema partly through issues of gender and identity, and partly through issues of reality and representation. In doing so, he looks at the various ways in which people have thought of the so-called cinematic novel, tracing the development of that genre concept not only in the French ciné-roman and film scenarios but also in novels from the United States, England, France, and Latin America. The main tendency he identifies is the blending of the cinematic novel with pop literature, through allusions to Pop Art and other postmodern cultural trends. His prime exhibits are a number of novels by the Argentinian writer Manuel Puig: Betrayed by Rita Hayworth; Heartbreak Tango; The Buenos Aires Affair; Kiss of the Spider Woman; and Pubis angelical. Bringing in suggestive sociocultural and psychoanalytical considerations, Cruz shows how, in Puig’s hands, the cinematic novel resulted in a pop collage of different texts, films, discourses, and narrative devices which fused reality and imagination into dream and desire.

Pre and Post-publication Itineraries of the Contemporary Novel in English

Author : François Gallix
Publisher : Editions Publibook
ISBN 13 : 2748335104
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (483 download)

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Download or read book Pre and Post-publication Itineraries of the Contemporary Novel in English written by François Gallix and published by Editions Publibook. This book was released on 2007 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

British Postmodern Fiction

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004647244
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book British Postmodern Fiction written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1994 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Bloomsbury Introduction to Postmodern Realist Fiction

Author : T.V. Reed
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350010820
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Bloomsbury Introduction to Postmodern Realist Fiction written by T.V. Reed and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

A Postmodern Reader

Author : Joseph Natoli
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791416389
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book A Postmodern Reader written by Joseph Natoli and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1993-06-29 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These readings are organized into four sections. The first explores the wellsprings of the debates in the relationship between the postmodern and the enterprise it both continues and contravenes: modernism. Here philosophers, social and political commentators, as well as cultural and literary analysts present controversial background essays on the complex history of postmodernism. The readings in the second section debate the possibilityor desirabilityof trying to define the postmodern, given its cultural agenda of decentering, challenging, even undermining the guiding master narratives of Western culture. The readings in the third section explore postmodernisms complicated complicity with these very narratives, while the fourth section moves from theory to practice in order to investigate, in a variety of fields, the common denominators of the postmodern condition in action.

Historical Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and Theater

Author : Fran Mason
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442276207
Total Pages : 587 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and Theater written by Fran Mason and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-12-12 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main aim of the book has been to include writers, movements, forms of writing and textual strategies, critical ideas, and texts that are significant in relation to postmodernist literature. In addition, important scholars, journals, and cultural processes have been included where these are felt to be relevant to an understanding of postmodernist writing. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and Theater contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries on 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. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the postmodernist literature and theater.

The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern American Fiction

Author : Paula Geyh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108179444
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern American Fiction written by Paula Geyh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few previous periods in the history of American literature could rival the richness of the postmodern era - the diversity of its authors, the complexity of its ideas and visions, and the multiplicity of its subjects and forms. This volume offers an authoritative, comprehensive, and accessible guide to the American fiction of this remarkable period. It traces the development of postmodern American fiction over the past half-century and explores its key aesthetic, cultural, and political contexts. It examines its principal styles and genres, from the early experiments with metafiction to the most recent developments, such as the graphic novel and digital fiction, and offers concise, compelling readings of many of its major works. An indispensable resource for students, scholars, and the general reader, the Companion both highlights the extraordinary achievements of postmodern American fiction and provides illuminating critical frameworks for understanding it.

Postmodern Reading of Contemporary East African Fiction

Author : Andrew Nyongesa
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100385480X
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Postmodern Reading of Contemporary East African Fiction written by Andrew Nyongesa and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book likens writers’ incessant focus on racism, negative ethnicity, patriarchy and social stratification in societies to a naïve physician who prescribes analgesics to treat symptoms while the underlying cause of the disease seethes in the blood. In the same way, persons who consistently blame their reckless conduct and shabbiness miss the point if they do not transform the actual cause of the problem: the mind. While most literary scholars problematise gender disparities, racial and political othering, oppression, environment degradation, education matters, poor parenting and governance, they tend to disregard the root cause: modernism. This book finds a gap in this grey area to address the authentic cause of the symptoms that most literary writers and scholars treat. Pertinent modernist tenets such as bureaucracy, the nation state, systematisation and rationality, and dualism are at the heart of racism, corruption and other aforementioned symptoms. It is the contention of this study that postmodernism offers a comprehensive understanding of modernism to mitigate its effects on society.

Beginning Postmodernism

Author : Tim Woods
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719052118
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book Beginning Postmodernism written by Tim Woods and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1999-08-20 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Postmodernism" has become the buzzword of contemporary society. Yet it remains baffling in its variety of definitions, contexts and associations. Beginning Postmodernism aims to offer clear, accessible and step-by-step introductions to postmodernism across a wide range of subjects. It encourages readers to explore how the debates about postmodernism have emerged from basic philosophical and cultural ideas. With its emphasis firmly on "postmodernism in practice," the book contains exercises and questions designed to help readers understand and reflect upon a variety of positions in the following areas of contemporary culture: philosophy and cultural theory; architecture and concepts of space; visual art; sculpture and the design arts; popular culture and music; film, video and television culture; and the social sciences.