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The cult novel, postmodernism and performativity with a special study of the novels of Richard Allen and Stewart HomeRoberts, John January 2006 (has links)
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Towards the postmodern : Pynchon, psychoanalysis and postmodernismHackett, Jonathan Michael January 2006 (has links)
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The religious roots of postmodernism in American culture : an analysis of the postmodern theory of Bernard Iddings Bell and its continued relevance to contemporary postmodern theory and literary criticismBrauer, Kristen D. January 2007 (has links)
This thesis is an examination and reassessment of an early work on postmodernism written by the once prominent American critic, Bernard Iddings Bell, in 1926. Bell's work, Postmodernism, and other essays, provides us with one of the earliest documented uses of the term "postmodernism" in the English language. It also anticipates many of the pronouncements of later critics regarding the development of postmodernism in politics, philosophy, and literary criticism. Despite these facts however, or perhaps because of them, contemporary critics have continued to ignore Bell's work, charging that his thesis is "anti-modern" rather than "postmodern", and otherwise irrelevant to current debates on postmodernism. This thesis will challenge that interpretation. Here it will be argued that the decision to exclude Bell's work from current debates on postmodernism is based upon Bell's religious predilections. In addition to constituting a radical break with the knowledge systems of the past, Bell argues that postmodernism will also be accompanied by a large scale religious revival. This argument runs counter to the dominant critical consensus regarding the relationship between postmodernism and religion adopted by critics from Arnold J. Toynbee in the 1950s, to Fredric Jameson in the 1990s. The first part of the thesis is dedicated to analysis of the philosophical influences and historical background to Bell's essay with the aim of comparing and contrasting Bell's ideas with those found in more recent works on postmodernism. The second part examines the possible impact of Bell's thesis on the interpretation of contemporary American literature and literary theory. Rather than focusing on a "poetics of parody", or the theoretical implications of "irony and humour", as previous critics have done, we will focus here on how contemporary writers like John Updike, Don DeLillo, and Toni Morrison, have chosen to incorporate the themes of postmodern criticism with a critique of that criticism, especially where this touches on the subject of religion. We conclude that Bell's insistence that postmodernism will be defined by a renewed interest in religion and mystical theology still has merit in the realm of contemporary cultural debates. Postmodern criticism that attempts to exclude religion from this arena does so on the basis of a modern interpretation of religious evolution and secularization, and therefore runs the risk of reiterating an older modernist critique.
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An analysis of postmodern narrative strategies with specific reference to Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being and The Book of Laughter and ForgettingPatchay, Sheendadevi 09 1900 (has links)
My dissertation focuses on an analysis of postmodern narrative
strategies in Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being
(ULB) and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting ( BLF) . By
analysing the postmodern ab/use of narrative strategies, I argue
that postmodern fiction marks a decided shift from both classical
realism and modernism.
My dissertation has predominantly been motivated through my
contention that postmodern fiction is not elitist as it has been
perceived to be. Rather, I suggest that postmodern fiction
ab/uses narrative strategies to deconstruct the ontological
boundaries between the political and private and fiction and
'fact'. Consequently, postmodern fiction interrogates the
contrived intelligibility of History. A further argument that
I raise is that postmodern fiction through its (re) appropriation,
subversion and use of parodic structures creates.narrative space
for the Other.
In order not to canonize Kundera's texts, I situate both ULB and
BLF as 'nodes' within a diffuse network of intertextual
discourse. My analyses of the postmodern narrative strategies
in ULB and BLF, attempt to interrogate the diffuse 'nature' of
postmodern fiction which resists both authorative analysis and
closure.
In exploring the relationship between recuperation and postmodern
narrative strategies in ULB and BLF and other works and/or texts
of fiction, I argue that postmodern fiction does not revel in its
narrativity, it constitutes, instead, a political strategy / Afrikaans and Theory of Literature / M.A. (Theory of Literature)
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An analysis of postmodern narrative strategies with specific reference to Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being and The Book of Laughter and ForgettingPatchay, Sheenadevi 09 1900 (has links)
My dissertation focuses on an analysis of postmodern narrative
strategies in Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being
(ULB) and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting ( BLF) . By
analysing the postmodern ab/use of narrative strategies, I argue
that postmodern fiction marks a decided shift from both classical
realism and modernism.
My dissertation has predominantly been motivated through my
contention that postmodern fiction is not elitist as it has been
perceived to be. Rather, I suggest that postmodern fiction
ab/uses narrative strategies to deconstruct the ontological
boundaries between the political and private and fiction and
'fact'. Consequently, postmodern fiction interrogates the
contrived intelligibility of History. A further argument that
I raise is that postmodern fiction through its (re) appropriation,
subversion and use of parodic structures creates.narrative space
for the Other.
In order not to canonize Kundera's texts, I situate both ULB and
BLF as 'nodes' within a diffuse network of intertextual
discourse. My analyses of the postmodern narrative strategies
in ULB and BLF, attempt to interrogate the diffuse 'nature' of
postmodern fiction which resists both authorative analysis and
closure.
In exploring the relationship between recuperation and postmodern
narrative strategies in ULB and BLF and other works and/or texts
of fiction, I argue that postmodern fiction does not revel in its
narrativity, it constitutes, instead, a political strategy / Afrikaans and Theory of Literature / M.A. (Theory of Literature)
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