Exploring Postmodernism [[electronic resource] ] : selected papers presented at a workshop on Postmodernism at the XIth International Comparative Literature Congress, Paris, 20-24 August 1985 / / edited by Matei Calinescu and Douwe Fokkema

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 1990
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (277 p.)
• Disciplina: 809/.04
• Soggetto topico: Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism; Criticism - History - 20th century; Postmodernism (Literature)
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: CălinescuMatei FokkemaDouwe Wessel <1931->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: EXPLORING POSTMODERNISM; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Preface; Table of contents; General Problems; 1. Introductory Remarks: Postmodernism, the Mimetic and Theatrical Fallacies; REFERENCES; 2. Pluralism in Postmodern Perspective; NOTES; REFERENCES; 3. Teleology in Postmodern Fiction; REFERENCE; 4. Allegory, Hermeneutics, and Postmodernism; NOTES; REFERENCES; 5. Postmodern Italy: Notes on the ""Crisis of Reason"", ""Weak Thought,"" and The Name of the Rose; NOTES; REFERENCES; BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE; Analytical Criticism ; 6. New Nouns for Old: ""Language"" Poetry, Language Game, and the Pleasure of the Text REFERENCES; 7. Samuel Beckett and the Postmodernism Controversy; REFERENCES; 8. The Intrusive Author in British Postmodernist Fiction: The Cases of Alasdair Gray and Martin Amis; NOTE; REFERENCES; 9. Postmodern Characterization and the Intrusion of Language; REFERENCES; 10. Popular Genre Conventions in Postmodern Fiction: The Case of the Western; REFERENCES; 11. Reading One/Self Samuel Beckett, Thomas Bernhard, Peter Handke,John Barth, Alain Robbe-Grillet; 1. Crisis Situation in Art and Life ; 2. Reading as the Basis of Writing or, The Dialogic Imagination; 3. The Paradox of Narrative Refiguration; REFERENCES; Michel Leiris' Autobiography La Règle du jeu and Postmodernism; 1. Introduction; 2. Permutation; 3. Correction; 4. Conclusion; NOTES; REFERENCES; 13. Narrative Discourse in Postmodernist Texts:The Conventions of the Novel and the Multiplication of Narrative Instances; The extra diegetic level; The intra- and hypodiegetic levels; The confounding of narrative levels; REFERENCES; Concluding Observations: Is There a Future for Research on Postmodernism?; REFERENCES ; Notes on the Contributors References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The great diversity of contexts in which the term Postmodernism is currently encountered reflects the remarkable success of a coinage that has been in circulation for only about forty years. It has been used by philosophers, sociologists, art critics and literary historians to become, finally, a household word in the language of advertising and politics. Before letting it fade to a derelict cliché, an attempt is made in this volume of essays to use its potential as a cultural concept for the analysis and understanding of contemporary literature and thought.
• Titolo autorizzato: Exploring Postmodernism
• ISBN: 1-283-42459-2; 9786613424594; 90-272-7858-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910461430103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Utrecht publications in general and comparative literature ; ; v. 23.