Approaching Postmodernism : Papers presented at a Workshop on Postmodernism, 21-23 September 1984, University of Utrecht.
Title:
Approaching Postmodernism : Papers presented at a Workshop on Postmodernism, 21-23 September 1984, University of Utrecht.
Author:
Fokkema, Douwe W.
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9789027286321
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1 online resource (310 pages)
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Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature ; v.21
Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature
Contents:
APPROACHING POSTMODERNISM -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- FOREWORD -- Preliminary Remarks -- REFERENCES -- The Postmodern Weltanschauung and its Relation with Modernism: An Introductory Survey -- 0. Introduction. -- 1. A Historical Survey: 1934 to the mid-1 -- 1.1. The Term "Postmodern" from 1934 to 1964 -- 1.2. Postmodernism and the American Counterculture: the Mid-Sixties. -- 1.3. Postmodernism as an Intellectual Revolt against Modernism. -- 1.4. Existentialist Postmodernism -- 2. Toward a Synthesis: from Postmodernisms to Postmodernism -- 2.1. The Postmodernism of Ihab Hassan: the Emerging of a New Episteme -- 2.2. The Postmodern Episteme: Other Approaches -- 3. Literary Postmodernism Revisited -- 3.1. Graff, Mellará, Wilde and Others -- 4. Questions and a Few Tentative Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- Change of Dominant from Modernist to Postmodernist Writing -- 1. Meta-theorical Preliminaries -- 2. The Dominant -- 3. Two Theses -- 4. Five Case-Studies -- 5. Conclusion: Apropos of What? -- 6. Postscript: Some Fallacies -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- The Semantic and Syntactic Organization of Postmodernist Texts -- REFERENCES -- The Presence of Postmodernism in British Fiction: Aspects of Style and Selfhood -- REFERENCES -- From Hypothesis to Korrektur: Refutation as a Component of Postmodernist Discourse -- REFERENCES -- Duplication and Multiplication: Postmodernist Devices in the Novels of Italo Calvino -- 1. Postmodernist Modes of Writing in the Novels of Calvino: Preliminary Remarks. -- 2. Duplication and Multiplication of Action. -- 3. Duplication and Multiplication of Characters and Narrators. -- REFERENCES -- Postmodernism in Russian Drama: Vampilov, Amalrik, Aksënov -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- The Absurd and its Forms of Reduction in Postmodern American Fiction -- 1. The Tragic View.
2. The Tragic View of the Tragic View: The Postmodern Novel -- 3. The Absurd as a Reduction of the Tragic World View -- 4. The Theater of the Absurd -- 5. The Term Absurd in Literary Criticism -- 6. The Zeitgeist of Existentialism, the Emptying of the Universe and the Design of the Imagination -- 7. The Absurd and the Comic -- 8. The Metafictional Absurd in John Barth's Novels -- REFERENCES -- Postmodernism in American Fiction and Art -- REFERENCES -- Modernism Cut in Half: The Exclusion of the Avant-garde and the Debate on Postmodernism -- 1. Two Remarks on a Paradox -- 2. The Expelled A vant-garde -- 3. The Problem of the Bipolar Schemes -- 4. The Otherness of Postmodernism -- REFERENCES -- Postmodernism and Some Paradoxes of Periodization -- REFERENCES -- Naming and Difference: Reflections on "Modernism versus Postmodernism" in Literature -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Note on the Contributors -- References -- Index.
Abstract:
Most of the essays collected in this volume deal with theoretical issues that dominate the international debate on Postmodernism, issues such as the shifting nature of the concept, the problem of periodization and the problem of historicity. Other essays offer readings of Postmodernist texts and relate practical criticism to a theoretical framework. Hans Bertens (Utrecht) sketches the historical development of the concept Postmodernism in American criticism, distinguishing between the various definitions that have been proposed over the last twenty-five years, in an attempt to bring some order to the field and to facilitate future discussion. Brian McHale (Tel Aviv) and Douwe Fokkema (Utrecht) offer models for the description of Postmodernist texts. Richard Todd (Amsterdam) argues convincingly that Postmodernism is much more of a presence in contemporary British fiction than has so far been assumed, and Herta Schmid (Munich) presents a similar argument with respect to Russian avant-garde theater. Elrud Ibsch (Amsterdam) presents a contrastive analysis of Thomas Bernhard and Robert Musil; Ulla Musarra (Nijmegen) writes on Italo Calvino. The relation between Existentialism and Postmodernism is examined by Gerhard Hoffman (Würzburg); Theo D'haen (Utrecht) finds important parallels between Postmodernism in literature and in the visual arts; Matei Calinescu (Bloomington, Ind.) relates literary Postmodernism to a far more general cultural shift, rejecting, however, Foucault's notion of an epistemic break and arguing for both continuity and discontinuity. Finally, Helmut Lethen (Utrecht) and Susan Suleiman (Harvard) sharply question the concept of Postmodernism. Suleiman argues that the supposed Postmodernist reaction against Modernism may well be a critical myth or, if it isn't, a reaction limited to the American literary situation.
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