Rethinking Postmodernism(s) : Charles S. Peirce and the Pragmatist Negotiations of Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, and Jonathan Safran Foer.
Title:
Rethinking Postmodernism(s) : Charles S. Peirce and the Pragmatist Negotiations of Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, and Jonathan Safran Foer.
Author:
Amian, Katrin.
ISBN:
9789401205986
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (251 pages)
Series:
Postmodern Studies, 41 ; v.v. 41
Postmodern Studies, 41
Contents:
Rethinking Postmodernism(s) -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Toward a New Postmodern Language Game: C. S. Peirce and the Pragmatist Language of Creativity and Consensus -- Productive In/Stabilities: Susanne Rohr's Peircean Theory of Reality Constitution -- Beyond Rohr's Model: Creativity, Consensus, and the Language of 'Negotiations' -- Destabilizing Play: V.'s Creative Guesswork -- 2 Creativity and Power: Thomas Pynchon's V. -- Stifling Control: V.'s Objects of Desire -- Play and Control: Re-Engaging the 'Paradox' of Postmodern Fiction -- 3 Consensus and Difference: Toni Morrison's Beloved -- (De-)Constructing Intersubjectivity: Beloved's Politics of Reading -- Reworking Consensus: The Women's Gathering and Beloved's 'Referential Debt' -- 4 Creativity and Consensus: Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated -- Staging Creativity: Everything's Playful Destabilizations -- Reworking Consensus: Toward a 'Moral' Vision of 'Collective Creation' -- Performing (Inter)Subjectivities: Everything's Epistolary Mediations -- Conclusion -- Works Cited.
Abstract:
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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