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From: Approaching Postmodernism: Papers Presented at a Workshop on Postmodernism, 21-23 September 1984, University of Utrecht[(essay date 1986) In the following essay, originally presented at a workshop in September 1984, Todd discusses Spark’s novels as metafiction and explores their relationship to The Movement, a group of postmodernist...
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From: Anglistik und Englischunterricht[(essay date 2005) In the following essay, Tönnies discusses Barnes’s Love, etc. and several other contemporary works as examples of postmodernism assuming a more self-conscious tone at the beginning of the twenty-first...
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From: Journal of the Short Story in English[(essay date 2011) In the following essay, Thomas discusses Carter’s use of literary, pictorial, and cinematographic conventions to create a postmodern narrative in her story “Impressions: The Wrightsman Magdalene.”]...
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From: Narratives at the Beginning of the 3rd Millennium[(essay date 2016) In the following essay, Morris considers the way fiction by Saunders and Eggers takes part in the “enactment of the ethical possibilities or … the politics of fiction in the wake of postmodernism.”]...
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From: Essays in Arts and Sciences[(essay date October 2001) In the following essay, Gitzen compares Barnes to Alain de Botton, commenting on the postmodern conventions of self-reflexivity, indeterminacy, and metanarrative in their novels.] One of the...
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From: Traditions, Voices, and Dreams: The American Novel since the 1960s[(essay date 1995) In the following essay, Safer examines Pynchon’s postmodernism “in terms of Fredric Jameson’s sociopolitical critique of American society.” This critique focuses on high-tech paranoia and its relation...
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From: Anglistik[(essay date 2007) In the following essay, Bayer examines Fowles’s first three novels, arguing that they demonstrate how understanding him as a nature writer enhances the study of him as a novelist.] John Fowles...
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From:The Faulkner Journal (Vol. 20, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedTo articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it "the way it really was." It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger. --Walter Benjamin Faulkner once told a college...
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From:CLIO (Vol. 28, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThomas Berger's 'Little Big Man' is discussed as an example of the postmodern satirical historical novel. Topics include the self-conscious revisionism of postmodern historical fiction, skepticism concerning the accuracy...
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From:The Southern Review (Vol. 30, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThere does exist a Southern poetry, but the themes of that poetry are not confined to the South. Postmodern Southern poetry is characterized by its familiar language and lack of pretension in dealing with themes that...
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From:Contemporary Literature (Vol. 38, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedJames Merrill's poetry has moved from a view of art as redemptive to one of art as convalescent. The relationship between art and illness is highlighted in many of his poems, a theme that becomes increasingly prominent...
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From:World Literature Today (Vol. 70, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedCritics, notably George Gomori, assess Endre Kukorelly's postmodernity as an affectation. However, it can be argued that Kukorelly's postmodern language, poetry, and historicity of his works are the epitome of Hungary's...
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From:Studies in the Novel (Vol. 31, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn Postmodern Sublime (1995),(1) Joe Tabbi takes a decisive step in the still--ongoing movement away from the tenets of a once--fashionable postmodernism. In the sober and suspect nineties, approaching a sublime...
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From:The Southern Literary Journal (Vol. 33, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedDorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina is a lyrical yet fiercely disturbing portrait of a South Carolina family besieged by poverty, violence, and incest. Narrated by young Ruth Anne Boatwright--or Bone as she is...
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From:symploke (Vol. 8, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedIn his essay for a volume called Why I Write, David Foster Wallace extends a Don DeLillo metaphor comparing a book-in-progress to a "hideously damaged infant," who constantly demands the writer's attention and love....
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From:Modern Drama (Vol. 43, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedLa deconstruction, c'est l'Amerique. --Jacques Derrida(1) Among the many surprises in David Mamet's controversial play Oleanna, the most shocking is perhaps the professor's violent attack on his student. This...
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From: Twentieth Century Literature[(essay date fall 2007) In the following essay, Song offers an extended analysis of The Namesake as an allegorical ode to childhood.] Jhumpa Lahiri was already a celebrated author when her first novel appeared in...
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From: English Language NotesPoststructuralism and postmodernism have much in common. Poststructuralism, of course, is more linguistically based, but the two theories merge on their notions of obscurity and indeterminacy. The insufficiency of...
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From: Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction[(essay date spring 2004) In the following essay, Bond identifies Coover's Pinocchio in Venice as extremely inscrutable and proposes a Mannerist framework within which to understand it.] Pinocchio in Venice alternately...
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From: You Might Be Able to Get There from Here: Reconsidering Borges and the Postmodern[(essay date 2004) In the following excerpt, Frisch discusses the kinds of roles that the author’s female characters play, showing that in several cases, the women appear strong and independent. Although Borges is not...