From modernism to postmodernism : concepts and strategies of postmodern American fiction /
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 m...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Sprog: | engelsk |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
2005.
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| Serier: | Postmodern studies ;
38. |
| Online adgang: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=160137 |
Indholdsfortegnelse:
- Table of Contents; 1. Introduction: Methods of Approach; 2. Postmodern Culture, Aesthetics, and the Arts; 3. Situationalism; 4. Philosophy and Postmodern American Fiction: Patterns of Disjunction, Complementarity and Mutual Subversion; 5. The Fantastic; 6. The Space-Time Continuum; 7. Character; 8. The Imagination; 9. The Perspectives of Negation: The Satiric, the Grotesque, the Monstrous, Farce and Their Attenuation by Play, Irony, and the Comic Mode; 10. The Novel After Postmodernism; Notes; Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; Index.