International Postmodernism: Theory and literary practiceHans Bertens, Douwe W. Fokkema John Benjamins Publishing, 20 févr. 1997 - 581 pages Containing more than fifty essays by major literary scholars, International Postmodernism divides into four main sections. The volume starts off with a section of eight introductory studies dealing with the subject from different points of view followed by a section that deals with postmodernism in other arts than literature, while a third section discusses renovations of narrative genres and other strategies and devices in postmodernist writing. The final and fourth section deals with the reception and processing of postmodernism in different parts of the world. Three important aspects add to the special character of International Postmodernism: The consistent distinction between postmodernity and postmodernism; equal attention to the making and diffusion of postmodernism and the workings of literature in general; and the focus on the text and the reader (i.e., the reader's knowledge, experience, interests, and competence) as crucial factors in text interpretation. This comprehensive study does not expressly focus on American postmodernism, although American interpretations of postmodernism are a major point of reference. The recognition that varying literary and cultural conditions in this world are bound to produce endless varieties of postmodernism made the editors, Hans Bertens and Douwe Fokkema, opt for the title International Postmodernism. |
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... epistemological) theory of change holds that the strategies and devices of literature will change if the obtaining social and political conditions are changing and people have become aware of these changes. The argumentation is that ...
... epistemological) theory of change holds that the strategies and devices of literature will change if the obtaining social and political conditions are changing and people have become aware of these changes. The argumentation is that ...
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... epistemological, that of postmodernist fiction ontological. There is a rather wide consensus that modernists have reflected on cognition, on ways of how to know the world we live in and how to represent it. That reflection on cognition ...
... epistemological, that of postmodernist fiction ontological. There is a rather wide consensus that modernists have reflected on cognition, on ways of how to know the world we live in and how to represent it. That reflection on cognition ...
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... epistemological approach. Postmodernist writing seems to be as much epistemological as “ontological,” or as little ontological as epistemological. In fact, if we wish to look for an ontological approach in literature, we should turn to ...
... epistemological approach. Postmodernist writing seems to be as much epistemological as “ontological,” or as little ontological as epistemological. In fact, if we wish to look for an ontological approach in literature, we should turn to ...
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... epistemological and moral doubt, to ignore ontological questions, to disregard the impossibility of narrating a convincing story, and just tell any story. This fourth explanation of the differences between modernism and postmodernism is ...
... epistemological and moral doubt, to ignore ontological questions, to disregard the impossibility of narrating a convincing story, and just tell any story. This fourth explanation of the differences between modernism and postmodernism is ...
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... epistemological doubt first turned into despair and then into indifference. The idea of “nothing makes any difference” also destroyed the established standards of reading. Reading could lead to overprecise, indeed farfetched ...
... epistemological doubt first turned into despair and then into indifference. The idea of “nothing makes any difference” also destroyed the established standards of reading. Reading could lead to overprecise, indeed farfetched ...
Table des matières
Section 2 Postmodernism in the Other Arts | 119 |
Section 3 Renovations and Innovations in Postmodernist Writing | 175 |
Section 4 The Reception and Processing of Postmodernism | 295 |
Contributors | 517 |
Bibliography of Secondary Sources | 523 |
Subject Index | 553 |
Index of Names | 558 |
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