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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Tác giả chính: Hoffmann, Gerhard, 1931-2018
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2005.
Loạt:Postmodern studies ; 38.
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  • 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.