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Succeeding Postmodernism
Author | : Mary K. Holland |
Publsiher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2013-04-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781441159342 |
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While critics collect around the question of what comes "after postmodernism," this book asks something different about recent American fiction: what if we are seeing not the end of postmodernism but its belated success? Succeeding Postmodernism examines how novels by DeLillo, Wallace, Danielewski, Foer and others conceptualize threats to individuals and communities posed by a poststructural culture of mediation and simulation, and possible ways of resisting the disaffected solipsism bred by that culture. Ultimately it finds that twenty-first century American fiction sets aside the postmodern problem of how language does or does not mean in order to raise the reassuringly retro question of what it can and does mean: it finds that novels today offer language as solution to the problem of language. Thus it suggests a new way of reading "antihumanist" late postmodern fiction, and a framework for understanding postmodern and twenty-first century fiction as participating in a long and newly enlivened tradition of humanism and realism in literature.
Succeeding Postmodernism
Author | : Mary K. Holland |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2013-04-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781441159342 |
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While critics collect around the question of what comes "after postmodernism," this book asks something different about recent American fiction: what if we are seeing not the end of postmodernism but its belated success? Succeeding Postmodernism examines how novels by DeLillo, Wallace, Danielewski, Foer and others conceptualize threats to individuals and communities posed by a poststructural culture of mediation and simulation, and possible ways of resisting the disaffected solipsism bred by that culture. Ultimately it finds that twenty-first century American fiction sets aside the postmodern problem of how language does or does not mean in order to raise the reassuringly retro question of what it can and does mean: it finds that novels today offer language as solution to the problem of language. Thus it suggests a new way of reading "antihumanist" late postmodern fiction, and a framework for understanding postmodern and twenty-first century fiction as participating in a long and newly enlivened tradition of humanism and realism in literature.
Postmodernism in Pieces
Author | : Matthew Mullins |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780190459505 |
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'Postmodernism in Pieces' performs a postmortem on what is perhaps the most contested paradigm in literary studies, breaking postmodernism down into its most fundamental orthodoxies and reassembling it piece by piece in light of recent theoretical developments in actor-network-theory, object-oriented philosophy, new materialism, and posthumanism.
After Postmodernism
Author | : Christopher K. Coffman,Theophilus Savvas |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 2020-12-17 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9781000289015 |
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Several of American literature’s most prominent authors, and many of their most perceptive critics and reviewers, argue that fiction of the last quarter century has turned away from the tendencies of postmodernist writing. Yet, the nature of that turn, and the defining qualities of American fiction after postmodernism, remain less than clear. This volume identifies four prominent trends of the contemporary scene: the recovery of the real, a rethinking of historical engagement, a preoccupation with materiality, and a turn to the planetary. Readings of works by various leading figures, including Dave Eggers, Jonathan Franzen, A.M. Homes, Lance Olsen, Richard Powers, William T. Vollmann, and David Foster Wallace, support a variety of arguments about this recent revitalization of American literature. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Textual Practice.
The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodernism
Author | : Brian McHale |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2015-06-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781107021259 |
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This Introduction surveys the full spectrum of postmodern culture, from architecture and visual art to fiction, poetry, and drama.
British Literature in Transition 1980 2000
Author | : Eileen Pollard,Berthold Schoene |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2018-12-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781107121423 |
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This volume shows how British literature recorded contemporaneous historical change. It traces the emergence and evolution of literary trends from 1980-2000.
The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern American Fiction
Author | : Paula Geyh |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2017-04-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781107103443 |
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This Companion is an authoritative, comprehensive, and accessible guide to the key works, genres, and movements of postmodern American fiction.
The Bloomsbury Introduction to Postmodern Realist Fiction
Author | : T.V. Reed |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2021-03-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781350010826 |
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Postmodern realist fiction uses realism-disrupting literary techniques to make interventions into the real social conditions of our time. It seeks to capture the complex, fragmented nature of contemporary experience while addressing crucial issues like income inequality, immigration, the climate crisis, terrorism, ever-changing technologies, shifting racial, sex and gender roles, and the rise of new forms of authoritarianism. A lucid, comprehensive introduction to the genre as well as to a wide variety of voices, this book discusses more than forty writers from a diverse range of backgrounds, and over several decades, with special attention to 21st-century novels. Writers covered include: Kathy Acker, Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche, Julia Alvarez, Sherman Alexie, Gloria Anzaldua, Margaret Atwood, Toni Cade Bambara, A.S. Byatt, Octavia Butler, Angela Carter, Ana Castillo, Don DeLillo, Junot Diaz, Jennifer Egan, Awaeki Emezi, Mohsin Hamid, Jessica Hagedorn, Maxine Hong Kingston, Ursula K. Le Guin, Daisy Johnson, Bharati Mukherjee, Toni Morrison, Vladimir Nabokov, Tommy Orange, Ruth Ozeki, Ishmael Reed, Eden Robinson, Salman Rushdie, Jean Rhys, Leslie Marmon Silko, Art Spiegelman, Kurt Vonnegut, and Jeannette Winterson, among others.