Postmodern Studies – serie
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16 produkter
Holocaust Impiety in Jewish American Literature
Memory, Identity, (Post-)Postmodernism
Inbunden, 2016
2315 kr
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The Holocaust is often said to be unrepresentable. Yet since the 1990s, a new generation of Jewish American writers have been returning to this history again and again, insisting on engaging with it in highly playful, comic, and “impious” ways. Focusing on the fiction of Michael Chabon, Jonathan …
Picaresque Fiction Today
The Trickster in Contemporary Anglophone and Italian Literature
Inbunden, 2016
2698 kr
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In Picaresque Fiction Today Luigi Gussago examines the development of the picaresque in contemporary Anglophone and Italian fiction. Far from being an extinct narrative form, confined to the pages of its original Spanish sources or their later British imitators, the tale of roguery has been …
Neo-Baroques
From Latin America to the Hollywood Blockbuster
Av Walter Moser
Inbunden, 2016
2257 kr
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The Baroque is back in contemporary culture. The ten essays authored by international scholars, and three interventions by artists, examine the return of the baroque as Neo-Baroque through interdisciplinary perspectives. Understanding the Neo-Baroque as transcultural (between different cultures) …
Art of Desire
Reading Paul Auster
Häftad, 1999
2215 kr
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An Art of Desire. Reading Paul Auster the first book-length study solely devoted to the novels of Paul Auster. From the vantage-point of poststructuralist theory, especially Lacanian psychoanalysis and Derridean deconstruction, this book explores the relation of Auster's novels City of Glass, In …
Nostalgic Postmodernism
The Victorian Tradition and the Contemporary British Novel
Häftad, 2001
2144 kr
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Why do so many contemporary British novels revert to the Victorian tradition in order to find a new source of inspiration? What does it mean from an ideological point of view to build a modern form of art by resurrecting and recycling an art of the past? From a formal point of view what are the …
Making Strange
Beauty, Sublimity, and the (Post) Modern ‘Third Aesthetic’
Häftad, 2008
1084 kr
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This compact, indispensable overview answers a vexed question: Why do so many works of modern and postmodern literature and art seem designed to appear ‘strange’, and how can they still cause pleasure in the beholder? To help overcome the initial barrier caused by this ‘strangeness’, the general …
Gothic-postmodernism
Voicing the Terrors of Postmodernity
Häftad, 2009
1237 kr
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Being the first to outline the literary genre, Gothic-postmodernism, this book articulates the psychological and philosophical implications of terror in postmodernist literature, analogous to the terror of the Gothic novel, uncovering the significance of postmodern recurrences of the Gothic, and …
Do You Feel It Too?
The Post-Postmodern Syndrome in American Fiction at the Turn of the Millennium
Häftad, 2010
2358 kr
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Do You Feel It Too? explores a new sense of self that is becoming manifest in experimental fiction written by a generation of authors who can be considered the ‘heirs’ of the postmodern tradition. It offers a precise, in-depth analysis of a new, post-postmodern direction in fiction writing, and …
Addressing Modernity
Social Systems Theory and U.S. Cultures
Häftad, 2011
2025 kr
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Niklas Luhmann’s theory of social systems is one of the most ambitious attempts to create a coherent account of global modernity. Primarily interested in the fundamental structures of modern society, however, Luhmann himself paid relatively little attention to regional variations. The aim of this …
Shift Linguals
Cut-Up Narratives from William S. Burroughs to the Present
Häftad, 2011
1748 kr
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Shift Linguals traces a history of the cut-up method, the experimental writing practice discovered by Brion Gysin and made famous by Beat author William S. Burroughs. From the groundbreaking works of Dada and Surrealism that paved the way for Burroughs’ breakthrough, through the countercultural …
Seaing through the Past
Postmodern Histories and the Maritime Metaphor in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction
Inbunden, 2011
2158 kr
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From Daniel Defoe to Joseph Conrad, from Virginia Woolf to Derek Walcott, the sea has always been an inspiring setting and a powerful symbol for generations of British and Anglophone writers. Seaing through the Past is the first study to explicitly address the enduring relevance of the maritime …
Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Short Story in English
Av Jorge Sacido
Häftad, 2012
1715 kr
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How can the short story help to redefine modernism, postmodernism and their interrelationship? What is the status of the short story in modern literary history? These are the central questions that the essays collected in this volume try to answer from different perspectives through readings of …
Collage Culture
Readymades, Meaning, and the Age of Consumption
Av David Banash
Häftad, 2013
1801 kr
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Collage Culture develops a comprehensive theory of the origins and meanings of collage and readymades in modern and postmodern art, literature, and everyday life. Demonstrating that the origins of collage are found in assembly line technologies and mass media forms of layout and advertising in …
Poetic Revolutionaries
Intertextuality & Subversion
Häftad, 2014
1758 kr
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Poetic Revolutionaries is an exploration of the relationship between radical textual practice, social critique and subversion. From an introduction considering recent debates regarding the cultural politics of intertextuality allied to avant-garde practice, the study proceeds to an exploration of …
Mosaic of Juxtaposition
William S. Burroughs’ Narrative Revolution
Häftad, 2014
1064 kr
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William S. Burroughs’ experimental narratives, from the 1959 publication of Naked Lunch through the late trilogy of the 1980s, have provided readers with intriguing challenges and, for some, disheartening frustrations. Yet, these novels continue to generate new interest and inspire new insights …
Fantasy, Politics, Postmodernity
Pratchett, Pullman, Miéville and Stories of the Eye
Häftad, 2014
1501 kr
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“The books are true while reality is lying…” Championing the popular Fantasy genre on the same terms as its readers, Rayment casts a critical eye over the substance and methods of political critique in the Fantasy novels of Terry Pratchett, Philip Pullman and China Miéville. Ranging across subjects …
