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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 : 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 : 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.
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.
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 : 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 : 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:
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004456651
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Posting the Male written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-06-08 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays collected in Posting the Male examine representations of masculinity in post-war and contemporary British literature, focussing on the works of writers as diverse as John Osborne, Joe Orton, James Kelman, Ian Rankin, Carol Ann Duffy, Alan Hollinghurst, Ian McEwan, Graham Swift and Jackie Kay. The collection seeks to capture the current historical moment of ‘crisis’, at which masculinity loses its universal transparency and becomes visible as a performative gender construct. Rather than denoting just one fixed, polarised point on a hierarchised axis of strictly segregated gender binaries, masculinity is revealed to oscillate within a virtually limitless spectrum of gender identities, characterised not by purity and self-containment but by difference and alterity. As the contributors demonstrate, rather than a gender ‘in crisis’ millennial manhood is a gender ‘in transition’. Patriarchal strategies of man-making are gradually being replaced by less exclusionary patterns of self-identification inspired by feminism. Men have begun to recognise themselves as gendered beings and, as a result, masculinity has been set in motion.
Author : I. Huber
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137429917
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)
Download or read book Literature after Postmodernism written by I. Huber and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature after Postmodernism explores the use of literary fantastic storylines in contemporary novels which begin to think beyond postmodernism. They develop an aesthetic perspective that aims at creation and communication instead of subversion and can thus be considered no longer deconstructive but reconstructive.
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 : John N. Duvall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521196310
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to American Fiction After 1945 written by John N. Duvall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive 2011 guide to the genres, historical contexts, cultural diversity and major authors of American fiction since the Second World War.
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 : Jan Alber
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100038845X
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Fact and Fiction in Contemporary Narratives written by Jan Alber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the complex interrelationship between fact and fiction in narratives of the twenty-first century. Current cultural theory observes a cultural shift away from postmodernism to new forms of expression. Rather than a radical break from the postmodern, however, postmodernist techniques are repurposed to express a new sincerity, a purposeful self-reflexivity, a contemporary sense of togetherness and an associated commitment to reality. In what the editors consider to be one manifestation of this general tendency, this book explores the ways in which contemporary texts across different media play with the boundary between fact and fiction. This includes the examination of novels, autobiography, autofiction, film, television, mockumentary, digital fiction, advertising campaigns and media hoaxes. The chapters engage with theories of what comes after postmodernism and analyse the narratological, stylistic and/or semiotic devices on which such texts rely. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the European Journal of English Studies.
Author : Mary K. Holland
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441159347
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Succeeding Postmodernism written by Mary K. Holland and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While critics collect around the question of what comes "after postmodernism," this book asks something different about recent American fiction: what if we are seeing not the end of postmodernism but its belated success? Succeeding Postmodernism examines how novels by DeLillo, Wallace, Danielewski, Foer and others conceptualize threats to individuals and communities posed by a poststructural culture of mediation and simulation, and possible ways of resisting the disaffected solipsism bred by that culture. Ultimately it finds that twenty-first century American fiction sets aside the postmodern problem of how language does or does not mean in order to raise the reassuringly retro question of what it can and does mean: it finds that novels today offer language as solution to the problem of language. Thus it suggests a new way of reading "antihumanist" late postmodern fiction, and a framework for understanding postmodern and twenty-first century fiction as participating in a long and newly enlivened tradition of humanism and realism in literature.
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.
