Postmodernism and after: visions and revisions
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Veröffentlicht: Newcastle, UK Cambridge Scholars Pub. 2008
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Beschreibung:"A collection of academic articles, most of which are modified versions of papers given at the International Literary Conference 'Beyond Postmodernism: Literature, Theory, Culture', which was held on 16-17 November, 2006 at the Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University, Lithuania"--Page [1]
Includes bibliographical references
Table of contents; introduction; from the postmodern to the pre-modern; performing cultural alterity; "what am i doing here"; national past / personal past; towards a polythetic definition of the bildungsroman; subjectivity in a.l. kennedy's writing; literary culture in the age of the internet; a self-reflexive renewal of realism; (de)construction of the postmodern in a.s.byatt's novel possession; the old and the new; intertextuality in theory and practice; reading postmodern narrative; the ecocritical and the postmodern; comparing mythologies
The present collection of academic articles is an attempt to reflect on new openings and recent developments in literature, literary theory and culture which seem to point beyond postmodernism and register a return to traditional concepts, theoretical premises and authorial practices. Interestingly enough, forty years after the publication of John Barth's seminal essay "The Literature of Exhaustion" (1967), the book is trying to diagnose the exhaustion of postmodernism, which was pre ..
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (vi, 216 pages)
ISBN:1443810320
1847184103
9781443810326
9781847184108

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