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The Trash Phenomenon
Author | : Stacey Michele Olster |
Publsiher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0820324841 |
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The Trash Phenomenon looks at how writers of the late twentieth century not only have integrated the events, artifacts, and theories of popular culture into their works but also have used those works as windows into popular culture's role in the process of nation building. Taking her cue from Donald Barthelme's 1967 portrayal of popular culture as "trash" and Don DeLillo's 1997 description of it as a subversive "people's history," Stacey Olster explores how literature recycles American popular culture so as to change the nationalistic imperative behind its inception. The Trash Phenomenon begins with a look at the mass media's role in the United States' emergence as the twentieth century's dominant power. Olster discusses the works of three authors who collectively span the century bounded by the Spanish-American War (1898) and the Persian Gulf War (1991): Gore Vidal's American Chronicle series, John Updike's Rabbit tetralogy, and Larry Beinhart's American Hero. Olster then turns her attention to three non-American writers whose works explore the imperial sway of American popular culture on their nation's value systems: hierarchical class structure in Dennis Potter's England, Peronism in Manuel Puig's Argentina, and Nihonjinron consensus in Haruki Murakami's Japan. Finally, Olster returns to American literature to look at the contemporary media spectacle and the representative figure as potential sources of national consolidation after November 1963. Olster first focuses on autobiographical, historical, and fictional accounts of three spectacles in which the formulae of popular culture are shown to bypass differences of class, gender, and race: the John F. Kennedy assassination, the Scarsdale Diet Doctor murder, and the O. J. Simpson trial. She concludes with some thoughts about the nature of American consolidation after 9/11.
Realism and reality in Film and Media
Author | : Anne Jerslev |
Publsiher | : Museum Tusculanum Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Realism in films |
ISBN | : 8772897163 |
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The 2002 theme of 'Northern Lights' is dedicated to the representation of reality in film, TV and new media -- a question of new importance in modern film and media, where a new wave of realism has dominated cinema and reality -- TV became a mass phenomena on both TV and the internet. Eleven articles by Danish, British, and American film and media researchers focus on two sub-themes: 'Film and Realism' deals theoretically with film realism and analyses classic films and modern Danish Dogma films; 'Documentary Forms, Reality TV and New Media' treats new forms of non-fiction film, TV and on the internet in a both theoretical and historical perspective.
The Novel Today
Author | : Malcolm Bradbury |
Publsiher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : American fiction |
ISBN | : 0719006775 |
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Britain's most important contemporary authors reflect intelligently and imaginatively on the nature and development of the modern novel.
The Metafictional Muse
Author | : Larry McCaffery |
Publsiher | : University of Pittsburgh Pre |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2010-10-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780822976356 |
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McCaffery interprets the works of three major writers of radically experimental fiction: Robert Coover; Donald Barthelme; and Willam H. Gass. The term “metafiction” here refers to a strain in American writing where the self-concious approach to the art of fiction-making is a commentary on the nature of meaning itself.
Language History and Linguistic Modelling
Author | : Raymond Hickey,Stanislav Puppel |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 2184 |
Release | : 2010-12-14 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783110820751 |
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This work presents a collection of some 130 contributions covering a wide range of topics of interest to historical, theoretical and applied linguistics alike. A major theme is the development of English which is examined on several levels in the light of recent linguistic theory in various papers. The geographical dimension is also treated extensively with papers on controversial aspects of a variety of studies, as are topical linguistic matters from a more general perspective.
Dissident Postmodernists
Author | : Paul Maltby |
Publsiher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2016-11-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781512804430 |
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Critics who hold that postmodernist art is essentially adversarial and apolitical have ignored the historical context of the postmodern focus on the problems of language. Paul Maltby examines a major current of postmodernist fiction that can be read as a dissident response to developments of late capitalism that have transformed the field of language and communication.
From Modernism to Postmodernism
Author | : Gerhard Hoffmann |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 750 |
Release | : 2016-08-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9789401202428 |
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This systemic study discusses in its historical, cultural and aesthetic context the postmodern American novel between the years of 1960 and 1980. A general overview of the various definitions of postmodernism in philosophy, cultural theory and aesthetics provides the framework for the inquiry into more specific problems, such as: the broadening of aesthetics, the relationship between aesthetics and ethics, the transformation of the artistic tradition, the interdependence between modernism and postmodernism, and the change in the aesthetics of fiction. Other topics addressed here include: situationalism, montage, the ordinary and the fantastic, the subject and the character, the imagination, comic modes, and the future of the postmodern strategies. The authors whose fiction is treated in some detail under the various aspects thematized are John Barth, Donald Barthelme, Richard Brautigan, Robert Coover, Stanley Elkin, Raymond Federman, William Gaddis, John Hawkes, Jerzy Kosinski, Thomas Pynchon, Ishmael Reed, Ronald Sukenick, and Kurt Vonnegut.
American Fiction Modernism Postmodernism Popular Culture and Metafiction
Author | : Jaroslav Kušnír |
Publsiher | : ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2012-01-31 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783838255149 |
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Jaroslav Kušnír’s book American Fiction: Modernism-Postmodernism, Popular Culture, and Metafiction is a sequel to his previous study on American postmodern fiction entitled Poetika americkej postmodernej prózy: Richard Brautigan and Donald Barthelme [Poetics of American Fiction: Richard Brautigan and Donald Barthelme]. Prešov: Impreso, 2001. It explores various aspects of American postmodernist fiction as manifested in the works by Richard Brautigan, Donald Barthelme and other American postmodernist authors such as Robert Coover, E. L. Doctorow, Kurt Vonnegut and Paul Auster. Analyzing various short stories and novels, the author shows differences between modernist and postmodernist literature in the works of Donald Barthelme; the way postmodern parodies of popular literary genres give a critique of some aspects of American cultural identity and experience (the American Dream, individualism, consumerism); and he also shows different ways postmodern authors such as Robert Coover, Kurt Vonnegut and Paul Auster create metafictional effect as one of the most significant aspects of postmodern literature.