Author: Linda HutcheonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134986262
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 527
Book Description
First published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Linda HutcheonA Poetics of Postmodernism
Author: Linda HutcheonPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415007054
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
A Poetics of Postmodernism is neither a defense nor a denunciation of the postmodern. It continues the project of Linda Hutcheon's Narcissistic Narrative and A Theory of Parody in studying formal self-consciousness in art, but adds to this both an historical and an ideological dimension. Modelled on postmodern architecture, postmodernism is the name given here to current cultural practices characterized by major paradoxes of form and of ideology. The "poetics" of postmodernism offered here is drawn from these contradictions, as seen in the intersecting concerns of both contemporary theory and cultural practice.
John Fowles's Fiction and the Poetics of Postmodernism
Author: Mahmoud SalamiPublisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780838634462
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Salami presents, for instance, a critique of the self-conscious narrative of the diary form in The Collector, the intertextual relations of the multiplicity of voices, the problems of subjectivity, the reader's position, the politics of seduction, ideology, and history in The Magus and The French Lieutenant's Woman. The book also analyzes the ways in which Fowles uses and abuses the short-story genre, in which enigmas remain enigmatic and the author disappears to leave the characters free to construct their own texts. Salami centers, for example, on A Maggot, which embodies the postmodernist technique of dialogical narrative, the problem of narrativization of history, and the explicitly political critique of both past and present in terms of social and religious dissent. These political questions are also echoed in Fowles's nonfictional book The Aristos, in which he strongly rejects the totalization of narratives and the materialization of society.
Literature, Geography, and the Postmodern Poetics of Place
Author: E. PrietoPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137318015
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Using contemporary literary representations of place, this study focuses on works that have participated in the emergence of new conceptions of place and new place-based identities. The analyses draw on research in cultural geography, cognitive science, urban sociology, and globalization studies.
Poetic License
Author: Marjorie PerloffPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810108431
Category : Literary Criticism & Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
In 'Poetic License, ' Perloff insists that despite the recent interest in 'opening up the canon, ' our understanding of poetry and poetics is all too often rutted in conventional notions of the lyric that shed little light on what poets and artists are actually doing today.
The Politics of Postmodernism
Author: Linda HutcheonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113446519X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Working through the issue of representation, in art forms from fiction to photography, Linda Hutcheon sets out postmodernism's highly political challenge to the dominant ideologies of the western world.
Constructing Postmodernism
Author: Brian McHalePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135083630
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Brian McHale provides a series of readings of a wide range of postmodernist fiction, from Eco's Foucault's Pendulum to the works of cyberpunk science-fiction, relating the works to aspects of postmodern popular culture.
From Modernism to Postmodernism
Author: Jennifer AshtonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139448595
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
In this overview of twentieth-century American poetry, Jennifer Ashton examines the relationship between modernist and postmodernist American poetics. Ashton moves between the iconic figures of American modernism - Stein, Williams, Pound - and developments in contemporary American poetry to show how contemporary poetics, specially the school known as language poetry, have attempted to redefine the modernist legacy. She explores the complex currents of poetic and intellectual interest that connect contemporary poets with their modernist forebears. The works of poets such as Gertrude Stein and John Ashbery are explained and analysed in detail. This major account of the key themes in twentieth-century poetry and poetics develops important ways to read both modernist and postmodernist poetry through their similarities as well as their differences. It will be of interest to all working in American literature, to modernists, and to scholars of twentieth-century poetry.
The Poetics of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Postmodern Literature
Author: Iro FilippakiPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030676307
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
The Poetics of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Postmodern Literature provides an interdisciplinary exploration in early medical trauma treatment and the emergent postmodern canon of the 1960s and 1970s. By identifying key postmodern literary tropes (paranoia, uncanniness, biomediation) as products of an overarching post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) narrative paradigm, this concise study reveals unexplored aspects of the canonical novels at hand—such as the link between individual and collective traumatization—highlights the presence of epic elements in postmodern narratives, and identifies the influence of emerging psychiatric treatment on the post-WWII novels at hand. Performing a medical humanities reading of Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow (1973), Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-5 (1969), and Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 (1961), this book introduces a novel way of examining trauma at the intersection of narrative, history, and medicine and recalibrates the importance of postmodern politics of transformation, while making the case for an aesthetics of trauma. By examining the historico-political developments that dictated the formation of PTSD in the wake of the wars in Korea and Vietnam, this book argues that the perception of PTSD symptoms directly influenced aesthetic and literary tropes of the Cold War era.
