Beyond Postmodernism : Reassessment in Literature, Theory, and Culture / Klaus Stierstorfer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stierstorfer, Klaus, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postmodernism (Literature).

Postmodernism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

After the veritable hype concerning postmodernism in the 1980s and early 1990s, when questions about when it began, what it means and which texts it comprises were apt to trigger heated discussions, the excitement has notably cooled down at the turn of the century. Voices are now beginning to be heard which seem to suggest a new episteme in the making which points beyond postmodernism, while it remains at the same time very uncertain whether what appears as newness is not rather a return to traditional concepts, theoretical premises, and authorial practices. Contributors to this volume propose to explore new openings and recent developments in anglophone literatures and cultural theories which engage with issues seen to be central in the construction of a postmodern paradigm, but deal with them in ways that promise new openings or a new Zeitgeist.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction: Beyond Postmodernism - Contingent Referentiality?

The Persistence of the Modernist Heritage

Why the Postmodern Age Will Last / ZIMA, PETER V.

A New Sense of Reality? A New Sense of the Text? Exploring Meta-Realism and the Literary-Critical Field / TEW, PHILIP

Hear the Voice of the Artist: Postmodernism as Faustian Bargain / PETROVIC, LENA

The Threefold Way: About the Heuristics and Paradigmatics of (Post)Modernist Culture and Literature / KLÄHN, BERND

Modernist at Best: Poeticity and Tradition in Hyperpoetry / SCHNIERER, PETER PAUL

Beyond Postmodernist Thirdspace? - The Internet in a Post-Postmodern World / TESKE, DORIS

Re-Reading Postmodernism

Pragmatic Commitments: Postmodern Realism in Don DeLillo, Maxine Hong Kingston and James Ellroy / TANDT, CHRISTOPHE DEN

Why Derrida Is Not a Postmodernist / NORRIS, CHRISTOPHER

Paradox vs. Analogy: De Man and Foucault / THALHOFER, HELGA

'Civilization's Fear of Nature': Postmodernity, Culture, and Environment in The God of Small Things / MORTENSEN, PETER

Beyond Postmodernism

Beyond Postmodernism: Toward an Aesthetic of Trust / HASSAN, IHAB

Wobbly Grounds: Postmodernism's Precarious Footholds in Novels by Malcolm Bradbury, David Parker, Salman Rushdie, Graham Swift / STIERSTORFER, KLAUS

Beyond Indifference: New Departures in British Fiction at the Turn of the 21st Century / NÜNNING, VERA

Shades of Gray: The Peculiar Postmodernism of Alasdair Gray / BÖHNKE, DIETMAR

American Postmodernist Literature at the Turn of the Millennium: the Death and Return of the Subject / LIPINA-BEREZKINA, VICTORIA

The Anglo-Irish Playwright Martin McDonagh: Postmodernist Zeitgeist as Cliché and a (Re)turn to the Voice of Common Sense / PETERS, SUSANNE

Extension of the Battle Zone: Ian McEwan's Cult Novel The Cement Garden / VOLKMANN, LAURENZ

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9783110906813

3110906813

OCLC:

1013946842