Postmodern Subjects / Postmodern Texts

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Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789051838848
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Postmodern Subjects / Postmodern Texts by : Jane Dowson

Download or read book Postmodern Subjects / Postmodern Texts written by Jane Dowson and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1995 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Postmodern Subjects/postmodern Texts

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Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789051838756
Total Pages : 262 pages
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Book Synopsis Postmodern Subjects/postmodern Texts by : Jane Dowson

Download or read book Postmodern Subjects/postmodern Texts written by Jane Dowson and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1995 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

International Postmodernism

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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027299714
Total Pages : 599 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis International Postmodernism by : Hans Bertens

Download or read book International Postmodernism written by Hans Bertens and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1997-02-20 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing more than fifty essays by major literary scholars, International Postmodernism divides into four main sections. The volume starts off with a section of eight introductory studies dealing with the subject from different points of view followed by a section that deals with postmodernism in other arts than literature, while a third section discusses renovations of narrative genres and other strategies and devices in postmodernist writing. The final and fourth section deals with the reception and processing of postmodernism in different parts of the world. Three important aspects add to the special character of International Postmodernism: The consistent distinction between postmodernity and postmodernism; equal attention to the making and diffusion of postmodernism and the workings of literature in general; and the focus on the text and the reader (i.e., the reader's knowledge, experience, interests, and competence) as crucial factors in text interpretation. This comprehensive study does not expressly focus on American postmodernism, although American interpretations of postmodernism are a major point of reference. The recognition that varying literary and cultural conditions in this world are bound to produce endless varieties of postmodernism made the editors, Hans Bertens and Douwe Fokkema, opt for the title International Postmodernism.

Postmodernized Simmel

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317831586
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Postmodernized Simmel by : Deena Weinstein

Download or read book Postmodernized Simmel written by Deena Weinstein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1993, this book opens a new and major line of interpretation, showing that Georg Simmel is the essential sociologist of the postmodern age. The authors trace the important contributions that Simmel's writings can make to current studies of intellectual ethics, textual methodology, sociological theory, philosophy of history and cultural theory

Irritable Bodies and Postmodern Subjects in Pynchon, Puig, Volponi

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Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820497136
Total Pages : 238 pages
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Book Synopsis Irritable Bodies and Postmodern Subjects in Pynchon, Puig, Volponi by : Giorgio Mobili

Download or read book Irritable Bodies and Postmodern Subjects in Pynchon, Puig, Volponi written by Giorgio Mobili and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irritable Bodies and Postmodern Subjects in Pynchon, Puig, Volponi examines the recurrence of violent body figuration in the fiction of Pynchon, Puig, and Volponi, and also in the fiction of several other postmodern authors who published their literature during the last quarter of the twentieth century. Different as they may be, these authors engage in analogous representative strategies, as their prose is frequently and similarly disrupted by obscene images of wounded, torn, or deformed bodies. In their mix of irony and morbidity, in the hyper-reality of their depiction, in the unwarranted, apparently random nature of their occurrence, these shocking outbreaks exemplify an uncompromisingly «irritable» style which is one fundamental element of postmodernist representation. The author argues how through their fascination with obscene material, these writers address burning issues about the significance of the corporeal in a seemingly discourse-defined universe. This book is a great resource for literary graduate students who are interested in a comparative approach to contemporary literature.

Fragments of Rationality

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Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 9780822971566
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Fragments of Rationality by : Lester Faigley

Download or read book Fragments of Rationality written by Lester Faigley and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2014-07-12 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an insightful assessment of the study and teaching of writing against the larger theoretical, political, and technological upheavals of the past thirty years, Fragments of Rationality questions why composition studies has been less affected by postmodern theory than other humanities and social science disciplines.

From Modernism to Postmodernism

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9401202427
Total Pages : 750 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis From Modernism to Postmodernism by : Gerhard Hoffmann

Download or read book From Modernism to Postmodernism written by Gerhard Hoffmann and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Gender and Knowledge

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Total Pages : 242 pages
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Book Synopsis Gender and Knowledge by : Susan J. Hekman

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Ambiguous Subjects

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9042029013
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Ambiguous Subjects by : Jennifer Wawrzinek

Download or read book Ambiguous Subjects written by Jennifer Wawrzinek and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the history of ideas, the aesthetic categories of the sublime and the grotesque have exerted a powerful force over the cultural imagination. Ambiguous Subjects is one of the first studies to examine the relationship between these concepts. Tracing the history of the sublime from the eighteenth century through Burke and Kant, Wawrzinek illustrates the ways in which the sublime has traditionally been privileged as an inherently masculine and imperialist mode of experience that polices and abjects the grotesque to the margins of acceptable discourse, and the way in which twentieth-century reconfigurations of the sublime increasingly enable the productive situating of these concepts within a dialogic relation as a means of instating an ethical relation to others. This book examines the articulations of both the sublime and the grotesque in three postmodern texts. Looking at novels by Nicole Brossard and Morgan Yasbincek, and the performance work of The Women’s Circus, Wawrzinek illuminates the ways in which these writers and performers restructure the spatial and temporal parameters of the sublime in order to allow various forms of highly contingent transcendence that always necessarily remain in relation to the grotesque body. Ambiguous Subjects illustrates how the sublime and the grotesque can co-exist in a manner where each depends on and is inflected through the other, thus enabling a notion of individuality and of community as contingent, but nevertheless very real, moments in time. Ambiguous Subjects is essential reading for anyone interested in aesthetics, continental philosophy, gender studies, literary theory, sociology and politics.

Modernism and Subjectivity

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Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807173592
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modernism and Subjectivity written by Adam Meehan and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2020-06-03 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Modernism and Subjectivity: How Modernist Fiction Invented the Postmodern Subject, Adam Meehan argues that theories of subjectivity coming out of psychoanalytic, poststructuralist, and adjacent late-twentieth-century intellectual traditions had already been articulated in modernist fiction before 1945. Offering a bold new genealogy for literary modernism, Meehan finds versions of a postmodern subject embodied in works by authors who intently undermine attempts to stabilize conceptions of identity and who draw attention to the role of language in shaping conceptions of the self. Focusing on the philosophical registers of literary texts, Meehan traces the development of modernist attitudes toward subjectivity, particularly in relation to issues of ideology, spatiality, and violence. His analysis explores a selection of works published between 1904 and 1941, beginning with Joseph Conrad’s prescient portrait of the subject interpolated by ideology and culminating with Samuel Beckett’s categorical disavowal of the subjective “I.” Additional close readings of novels by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, Nathanael West, and Virginia Woolf establish that modernist texts conceptualize subjectivity as an ideological and linguistic construction that reverberates across understandings of consciousness, race, place, and identity. By reconsidering the movement’s function and scope, Modernism and Subjectivity charts how profoundly modernist literature shaped the intellectual climate of the twentieth century.