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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... reality does not permit such a definitive inventory. Far from having exhausted itself, the postmodern impulse is alive and well, although its current manifestations are admittedly not those of thirty, or even those of twenty or fifteen ...
... reality does not permit such a definitive inventory. Far from having exhausted itself, the postmodern impulse is alive and well, although its current manifestations are admittedly not those of thirty, or even those of twenty or fifteen ...
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... reality — and the essentialist character of truth (or at least some truths). This deconstruc— tionist postmodernism, that briefly dominated the contemporary literature sections of American Departments of English, is, like the Derridean ...
... reality — and the essentialist character of truth (or at least some truths). This deconstruc— tionist postmodernism, that briefly dominated the contemporary literature sections of American Departments of English, is, like the Derridean ...
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... reality itself” (Wilde 1981: 121). Such an acknowledgement of the historicity of one's perspective, however, does not inevitably lead to resignation. Quite to the contrary, Wilde sees a! “ in his postmodern “midfiction the possibility ...
... reality itself” (Wilde 1981: 121). Such an acknowledgement of the historicity of one's perspective, however, does not inevitably lead to resignation. Quite to the contrary, Wilde sees a! “ in his postmodern “midfiction the possibility ...
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... reality or knowledge about reality call for new literary means of expression. This theory was dominant in Marxist explanations of literary change, but it can also be connected with Karl Popper's notion of problem solving, as was argued ...
... reality or knowledge about reality call for new literary means of expression. This theory was dominant in Marxist explanations of literary change, but it can also be connected with Karl Popper's notion of problem solving, as was argued ...
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... reality is being admitted again, the first signs of which became visible at least ten or fifteen years earlier. I mentioned John Barth's argument for a fiction that would rise “above the quarrel between realism and irrealism, formalism ...
... reality is being admitted again, the first signs of which became visible at least ten or fifteen years earlier. I mentioned John Barth's argument for a fiction that would rise “above the quarrel between realism and irrealism, formalism ...
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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