Beyond Postmodernism : : Reassessment in Literature, Theory, and Culture /

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

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 hea...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
BÖHNKE, DIETMAR,
HASSAN, IHAB,
KLÄHN, BERND,
LIPINA-BEREZKINA, VICTORIA,
MORTENSEN, PETER,
NORRIS, CHRISTOPHER,
NÜNNING, VERA,
PETERS, SUSANNE,
PETROVIC, LENA,
SCHNIERER, PETER PAUL,
STIERSTORFER, KLAUS,
TANDT, CHRISTOPHE DEN,
TESKE, DORIS,
TEW, PHILIP,
THALHOFER, HELGA,
VOLKMANN, LAURENZ,
ZIMA, PETER V.,
HerausgeberIn:
Stierstorfer, Klaus,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2012]
©2003
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (331 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • i-iv
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Beyond Postmodernism – Contingent Referentiality?
  • The Persistence of the Modernist Heritage
  • Why the Postmodern Age Will Last
  • A New Sense of Reality? A New Sense of the Text? Exploring Meta-Realism and the Literary-Critical Field
  • Hear the Voice of the Artist: Postmodernism as Faustian Bargain
  • The Threefold Way: About the Heuristics and Paradigmatics of (Post)Modernist Culture and Literature
  • Modernist at Best: Poeticity and Tradition in Hyperpoetry
  • Beyond Postmodernist Thirdspace? – The Internet in a Post-Postmodern World
  • Re-Reading Postmodernism
  • Pragmatic Commitments: Postmodern Realism in Don DeLillo, Maxine Hong Kingston and James Ellroy
  • Why Derrida Is Not a Postmodernist
  • Paradox vs. Analogy: De Man and Foucault
  • ‘Civilization’s Fear of Nature’: Postmodernity, Culture, and Environment in The God of Small Things
  • Beyond Postmodernism
  • Beyond Postmodernism: Toward an Aesthetic of Trust
  • Wobbly Grounds: Postmodernism’s Precarious Footholds in Novels by Malcolm Bradbury, David Parker, Salman Rushdie, Graham Swift
  • Beyond Indifference: New Departures in British Fiction at the Turn of the 21st Century
  • Shades of Gray: The Peculiar Postmodernism of Alasdair Gray
  • American Postmodernist Literature at the Turn of the Millennium: the Death and Return of the Subject
  • The Anglo-Irish Playwright Martin McDonagh: Postmodernist Zeitgeist as Cliché and a (Re)turn to the Voice of Common Sense
  • Extension of the Battle Zone: Ian McEwan’s Cult Novel The Cement Garden
  • Contributors
  • Index

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