From modernism to postmodernism : : concepts and strategies of postmodern American fiction / / Gerhard Hoffmann.
This systemic study discusses in its historical, cultural and aesthetic context the postmodern American novel between the years of 1960 and 1980. A general overview of the various definitions of postmodernism in philosophy, cultural theory and aesthetics provides the framework for the inquiry into m...
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| Superior document: | Postmodern studies ; 38 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam ;, New York : : Rodopi,, 2005. |
| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Postmodern Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (751 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction: Methods of Approach
- Postmodern Culture, Aesthetics, and the Arts
- Situationalism
- Philosophy and Postmodern American Fiction: Patterns of Disjunction, Complementarity and Mutual Subversion
- The Fantastic
- The Space-Time Continuum
- Character
- The Imagination
- The Perspectives of Negation: The Satiric, the Grotesque, the Monstrous, Farce and their Attenuation by Play, Irony, and the Comic Mode
- The Novel After Postmodernism
- Notes
- Primary Sources
- Secondary Sources
- Index.