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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... sense of collective identity was conceived in the nineteenth century and born largely of the printed word and the literary genre we know as the novel — though others would, no doubt, want to argue for the centrality of drama or even ...
... sense of collective identity was conceived in the nineteenth century and born largely of the printed word and the literary genre we know as the novel — though others would, no doubt, want to argue for the centrality of drama or even ...
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... sense in which postcolonial writing is political. To write off the efforts of early postmodern writers such as Thomas Pynchon or Robert Coover as a-political is to ignore Pynchon's shocking description of German colonial rule in what is ...
... sense in which postcolonial writing is political. To write off the efforts of early postmodern writers such as Thomas Pynchon or Robert Coover as a-political is to ignore Pynchon's shocking description of German colonial rule in what is ...
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... sense of marginalization. However, while these distinctions are useful, they should not be exaggerated. They are ... sense is not. Taken in this sense, as a set of theoretical assumptions, or, even better, as the framework for an ongoing ...
... sense of marginalization. However, while these distinctions are useful, they should not be exaggerated. They are ... sense is not. Taken in this sense, as a set of theoretical assumptions, or, even better, as the framework for an ongoing ...
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... sense. . ..New criteria of aesthetic value then unexpectedly emerge from this proposition: whatever a good, let alone a great, video-text might be, it will be bad or flawed whenever such interpretation proves possible, whenever the text ...
... sense. . ..New criteria of aesthetic value then unexpectedly emerge from this proposition: whatever a good, let alone a great, video-text might be, it will be bad or flawed whenever such interpretation proves possible, whenever the text ...
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... sense of a globaliza— tion of economics and politics, postmodern modes of production and consumption, or, if one prefers a more idealist phrasing, a postmodern Zeitgeist. Susan Suleiman writes “that the effort to define postmodernism ...
... sense of a globaliza— tion of economics and politics, postmodern modes of production and consumption, or, if one prefers a more idealist phrasing, a postmodern Zeitgeist. Susan Suleiman writes “that the effort to define postmodernism ...
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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