Postmodernism and after : visions and revisions / edited by Regina Rudaityte.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rudaitytė, Regina.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postmodernism--Congresses.

Postmodernism.

Arts, Modern--20th century--Congresses.

Arts, Modern.

Genre:

Libros electrónicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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...

Contents:

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

TRANSTEXTUAL BRIDGE BETWEEN THE POSTMODERN AND THE MODERNCONTRIBUTORS

Notes:

Descripción basada en metadatos suministrados por el editor y otras fuentes.

Most articles derive from papers given at the International Literary Conference at the Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University, Lithuania, Nov. 16-17, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-4438-1032-0

OCLC:

830167829