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Rethinking postmodernism(s) : Charles S. Peirce and the pragmatist negotiations of Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, and Jonathan Safran Foer / Katrin Amian.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Amian, Katrin.
- Series:
- Postmodern studies ; 41.
- Postmodern studies ; 41
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Postmodernism (Literature)--United States.
- Postmodernism (Literature).
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Foer, Jonathan Safran, 1977-.
- Foer, Jonathan Safran.
- Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019.
- Morrison, Toni.
- Pynchon, Thomas.
- Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914.
- Peirce, Charles S.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (251 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Rethinking Postmodernism(s) revisits three historical sites of American literary postmodernism: the early postmodernism of Thomas Pynchon’s V. (1961), the emancipatory postmodernism of Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987), and the late or post-postmodernism of Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated (2002). For the first time, it confronts these texts with the pragmatist philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce, staging a conceptual dialogue between pragmatism and postmodernism that historicizes and recontextualizes customary readings of postmodern fiction. The book is a must-read for all interested in current reassessments of literary postmodernism, in new critical dialogues between seminal postmodern texts, and in recent attempts to theorize the ‘post-postmodern’ moment.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- Toward a New Postmodern Language Game: C. S. Peirce and the Pragmatist Language of Creativity and Consensus
- Creativity and Power: Thomas Pynchon’s V.
- Consensus and Difference: Toni Morrison’s Beloved
- Creativity and Consensus: Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated
- Conclusion
- Works Cited.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9789401205986
- 9401205981
- 9781435651715
- 1435651715
- OCLC:
- 240689222
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789401205986 DOI
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