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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... reader to a problem which is pertinent to all interpretation as well as to all constructions of period formations ... readers may read a particular text in different ways, textual features remain a point of reference in any reading and ...
... reader to a problem which is pertinent to all interpretation as well as to all constructions of period formations ... readers may read a particular text in different ways, textual features remain a point of reference in any reading and ...
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... reader (i.e., the reader's knowledge, experience, interests, and competence) are crucial factors. The various contributors have, at least implicitly, defined their own position between the two possibilities of emphasizing the input of ...
... reader (i.e., the reader's knowledge, experience, interests, and competence) are crucial factors. The various contributors have, at least implicitly, defined their own position between the two possibilities of emphasizing the input of ...
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... reader an overview of the most important ap— proaches that over the last twenty years have established themselves but also to enable him or her to 'place' the discussions of the various national postmodernisms that make up the second ...
... reader an overview of the most important ap— proaches that over the last twenty years have established themselves but also to enable him or her to 'place' the discussions of the various national postmodernisms that make up the second ...
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... reader will find that our contributors do not go in for such radical gestures. The formalist approach is exemplified, for instance, by David Lodge's chapter on postmodern fiction in his The Modes ofModern Writing of 1977. According to ...
... reader will find that our contributors do not go in for such radical gestures. The formalist approach is exemplified, for instance, by David Lodge's chapter on postmodern fiction in his The Modes ofModern Writing of 1977. According to ...
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... , literature begins to approximate theory, form and formalist manipulation serve to make the reader aware of the fact that language constitutes, rather than represents, reality; that the autonomous. The Debate on Postmodernism 11.
... , literature begins to approximate theory, form and formalist manipulation serve to make the reader aware of the fact that language constitutes, rather than represents, reality; that the autonomous. The Debate on Postmodernism 11.
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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