International Postmodernism: Theory and Literary PracticeJohannes Willem Bertens, Douwe Wessel Fokkema J. Benjamins, 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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... Borges slyly assures the reader - a few chapters from Don Quixote . Each sentence of the Menard version ( verbally indistinguishable from the one written by Cervantes ) acquires , as Borges points out , a dramatically different meaning ...
... Borges slyly assures the reader - a few chapters from Don Quixote . Each sentence of the Menard version ( verbally indistinguishable from the one written by Cervantes ) acquires , as Borges points out , a dramatically different meaning ...
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... Borges in " The Library of Babel " when he states the " certainty that everything has already been written " ( Borges 1974 : 470 ) or by John Barth when he speaks of the literature of our times as a " literature of exhaustion . " In a ...
... Borges in " The Library of Babel " when he states the " certainty that everything has already been written " ( Borges 1974 : 470 ) or by John Barth when he speaks of the literature of our times as a " literature of exhaustion . " In a ...
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... Borges , and then also Nabokov and Beckett . In " The Literature of Exhaustion " ( 1967 ) John Barth focused on Borges , and although , in this essay , he did not use the word " postmodern " or one of its derivatives , later critics ...
... Borges , and then also Nabokov and Beckett . In " The Literature of Exhaustion " ( 1967 ) John Barth focused on Borges , and although , in this essay , he did not use the word " postmodern " or one of its derivatives , later critics ...
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