Exploring Postmodernism
Selected papers presented at a Workshop on Postmodernism at the XIth International Comparative Literature Congress, Paris, 20-24 August 1985
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Published on 1. January 1988
VIII, 262 pages
978-90-272-7858-6 (ISBN)
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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.
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Exploring Postmodernism
Selected papers presented at a Workshop on Postmodernism at the XIth International Comparative Literature Congress, Paris, 20-24 August 1985
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Content
- 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 Beckettand 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/SelfSamuel 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
- MichelLeiris'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 Multiplicationof Narrative Instances
- The extradiegetic level
- The intra- and hypodiegetic levels
- The confounding of narrative levels
- REFERENCES
- Concluding Observations: Is There a Future for Research on Postmodernism?
- REFERENCES
- Notes onthe Contributors
- References
- Index
