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1	“Cowboy, Paladin, Hero?”: Being Boys and Men in David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King Guidry, David J 15 May 2015 (has links) Often aligned with post-postmodernism, David Foster Wallace’s later work retreats from the ironic detachment and cynicism of postmodernism in favor of a more sincere approach to writing. This is especially evident in his posthumous novel, The Pale King, a work dealing with what it means to be human in the Information Age. After locating the novel’s setting within a recent history of American masculinity and work, this paper examines several of the novel’s male characters as they struggle to be fully realized boys and men, concluding that The Pale King is Wallace’s final statement that enduring the ennui of modern life is admirable, even heroic. David Foster Wallace The Pale King post-postmodernism masculinity manhood boredom American Literature
2	Salman, Volha 01 January 2009 (has links) (PDF) The present thesis argues that the present era of post-postmodernism experiences a revival of revised metanarratives through &lsquo / fabulation&rsquo / , the process masterfully depicted in Julian Barnes&rsquo / s novels Metroland (1980), Flaubert&rsquo / s Parrot (1984), History of the World in 10 &frac12 / Chapters (1989) and England, England (1998). The age of postmodernism with its undermining irony, hopelessness, pessimism and the sense of the looming end could not but leave the world in a state of despair, characterised by a propagated rule of the simulacra and the subaltern, hybridism, uncertainty, absence and inconclusiveness. As a result, the world witnessed the appearance of various calls for the re-institution of metanarratives as the only cure to rescue mankind from continuous deferral of signification, which tends to feel secure only with a score of guiding narratives. The same holds true of Julian Barnes&rsquo / s fiction. While many consider the writer&rsquo / s works to be typically postmodern, it is far from being so, as alongside the propagation of multiplicity and flexibility of meaning, it emphasises the existence of the Truth and the necessity to fabulate metanarratives, which are the only guiding poles in human progress through life in post-postmodernism. PR English Literature 1-9680
3	Historicization without periodization Herrmann, Sebastian M., Kanzler, Katja, Schubert, Stefan 27 July 2016 (has links) (PDF) A large number of recent scholarship in (American) literary and cultural studies is devoted to describing the contemporary moment as a monumental break from the previous (or current) period, postmodernism, by hailing our contemporary times as the era of post-postmodernism, late postmodernism, metamodernism, cosmodernism, or of a similarly termed construction. In these different proclamations, we recognize a pervasive tendency to periodize, an attempt to separate phases of human existence and cultural creation into neat stages that ‘logically’ follow after one another to form a supposedly coherent narrative. This practice of periodizing comes with a number of pitfalls that many of these studies seem not fully aware of, and it in turn speaks to (and characterizes) the contemporary moment as one marked by a desire for the boundedness of such clear divisions. In the following pages, we chronicle the quandaries that follow from such implicit and explicit efforts of periodization by focalizing them through three different ‘creation myths’ of the contemporary that such efforts at periodization typically subscribe to. As a way of sidestepping these, we accentuate the strengths of more ‘local’ critical lenses, approaches that historicize without periodizing. As one such lens, we suggest to engage the contemporary moment through the ‘poetics of politics,’ a historical discursive formation in which literary and popular texts’ desire for political relevance is matched by a recognition, in politics, of the (meta)textual quality of political action. Postmoderne Post-Postmoderne Literaturgeschichte amerikanische Literatur Populärkultur postmodernism post-postmodernism literary history American literature popular culture ddc:810 ddc:320
4	Efemerna arhitektura u funkciji formiranja graničnog prostora umetnosti / Ephemeral Architecture in Creation of Liminal Space in Art Zeković Miljana 28 December 2015 (has links) <p>Naučno-istraživački rad iz oblasti fenomenologije arhitekture;<br />bavi se uspostavljanjem zasnovanog i analitičkog odnosa ka<br />osnovnim odrednicama koje su predmet istraživanja. To su:<br />efemerna arhitektura, granični prostori, prostorne prakse,<br />redefinisanje odnosa arhitekture i tehnologije, ukazivanje na<br />primenu teorije funkcija arhitekture, te sintetičko određenje ka<br />korelirajućim transdisciplinarnim teorijama prostora.</p> / <p>Scientific research from the field of phenomenology of architecture;<br />considers establishment of the discursive analytical relations towards the<br />notions of the ephemeral architecture, liminal space, spatial practice;<br />redefinition of the relation between architecture and technology and their<br />future unitary action; indication of the architectural functions theory<br />application, and finally, synthetically defined attitude towards all of the<br />correlating factors and transdisciplinary theories of space.</p>
5	Historicization without periodization: post-postmodernism and the poetics of politics Herrmann, Sebastian M., Kanzler, Katja, Schubert, Stefan January 2015 (has links) A large number of recent scholarship in (American) literary and cultural studies is devoted to describing the contemporary moment as a monumental break from the previous (or current) period, postmodernism, by hailing our contemporary times as the era of post-postmodernism, late postmodernism, metamodernism, cosmodernism, or of a similarly termed construction. In these different proclamations, we recognize a pervasive tendency to periodize, an attempt to separate phases of human existence and cultural creation into neat stages that ‘logically’ follow after one another to form a supposedly coherent narrative. This practice of periodizing comes with a number of pitfalls that many of these studies seem not fully aware of, and it in turn speaks to (and characterizes) the contemporary moment as one marked by a desire for the boundedness of such clear divisions. In the following pages, we chronicle the quandaries that follow from such implicit and explicit efforts of periodization by focalizing them through three different ‘creation myths’ of the contemporary that such efforts at periodization typically subscribe to. As a way of sidestepping these, we accentuate the strengths of more ‘local’ critical lenses, approaches that historicize without periodizing. As one such lens, we suggest to engage the contemporary moment through the ‘poetics of politics,’ a historical discursive formation in which literary and popular texts’ desire for political relevance is matched by a recognition, in politics, of the (meta)textual quality of political action. info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/810 ddc:810 info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/320 ddc:320
6	Castaways and colonists from Crusoe to Coetzee / Susanna Johanna Smit-Marais Smit-Marais, Susanna Johanna January 2012 (has links) Generic transformation of the castaway novel is made evident by the various ways in which the narrative boundaries that separate fiction from reality and history, the past from the present, and the rational from the irrational, are reconfigured in Umberto Eco’s The Island of the Day Before (1994), J.M. Coetzee’s Foe (1986) and Yann Martel’s Life of Pi (2002). The dissolution of boundaries reflects the dominant shift that has occurred in the castaway novel from the 18th century literary context to the present postmodern, postcolonial context. In this regard, the narrative utilizes various narratological strategies, the most significant being intertextuality, metafiction, historiographical metafiction, allegory, irony, and the carnivalesque. These narratological strategies rewrite, revise, and recontextualize those generic conventions that perpetuated the culture of masculinity and conquest that defines colonialism and the traditional castaway novel epitomized by Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719). From a postcolonial perspective, the castaway’s state of being reflects on the condition of the colonized as well as the colonizer: his/her experience of displacement is similar to colonized peoples’ separation from their cultural, spiritual and personal identities; simultaneously, processes of appropriation, adaptation and control of space resemble colonization, thereby revealing the constructed nature of colonial space. As such, space is fundamental to individual orientation and social adaptation and consequently, metaphorically and metonymically linked to identity. In the selected postmodernist and postcolonial texts, the movement from the position of castaway to colonist as originally manifested in Robinson Crusoe is therefore reinterpreted and recontextualized. The postmodernist and postcolonial contexts resist fixed and one-dimensional representations of identity, as well as the appropriation and domination of space, that characterize shipwreck literature from pre-colonial and colonial periods. Rationalist notions of history, reality and truth as empirically definable concepts are also contested. The castaway identity is often characterized by feelings of physical and spiritual displacement and estrangement that can be paralleled to postmodernist themes of existential confusion and anxiety. / Thesis (PhD (English))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2013 Boundaries Castaway Colonialism Focalization Foe Genre Hybridity Identity The Island of the Day Before Life of Pi Liminality Literary dominant Narration Narratological strategies Postcolonialism Postmodernism Post-postmodernism Robinson Crusoe Space & Place Fokalisasie Grense Hibriditeit Identiteit Kolonialisme Liminaliteit Literêre dominant Narratief Narratologiese strategiëe Postkolonialisme Postmodernisme Post-postmodernisme Ruimte & Plek Skipbreukeling
7	Castaways and colonists from Crusoe to Coetzee / Susanna Johanna Smit-Marais Smit-Marais, Susanna Johanna January 2012 (has links) Generic transformation of the castaway novel is made evident by the various ways in which the narrative boundaries that separate fiction from reality and history, the past from the present, and the rational from the irrational, are reconfigured in Umberto Eco’s The Island of the Day Before (1994), J.M. Coetzee’s Foe (1986) and Yann Martel’s Life of Pi (2002). The dissolution of boundaries reflects the dominant shift that has occurred in the castaway novel from the 18th century literary context to the present postmodern, postcolonial context. In this regard, the narrative utilizes various narratological strategies, the most significant being intertextuality, metafiction, historiographical metafiction, allegory, irony, and the carnivalesque. These narratological strategies rewrite, revise, and recontextualize those generic conventions that perpetuated the culture of masculinity and conquest that defines colonialism and the traditional castaway novel epitomized by Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719). From a postcolonial perspective, the castaway’s state of being reflects on the condition of the colonized as well as the colonizer: his/her experience of displacement is similar to colonized peoples’ separation from their cultural, spiritual and personal identities; simultaneously, processes of appropriation, adaptation and control of space resemble colonization, thereby revealing the constructed nature of colonial space. As such, space is fundamental to individual orientation and social adaptation and consequently, metaphorically and metonymically linked to identity. In the selected postmodernist and postcolonial texts, the movement from the position of castaway to colonist as originally manifested in Robinson Crusoe is therefore reinterpreted and recontextualized. The postmodernist and postcolonial contexts resist fixed and one-dimensional representations of identity, as well as the appropriation and domination of space, that characterize shipwreck literature from pre-colonial and colonial periods. Rationalist notions of history, reality and truth as empirically definable concepts are also contested. The castaway identity is often characterized by feelings of physical and spiritual displacement and estrangement that can be paralleled to postmodernist themes of existential confusion and anxiety. / Thesis (PhD (English))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2013 Boundaries Castaway Colonialism Focalization Foe Genre Hybridity Identity The Island of the Day Before Life of Pi Liminality Literary dominant Narration Narratological strategies Postcolonialism Postmodernism Post-postmodernism Robinson Crusoe Space & Place Fokalisasie Grense Hibriditeit Identiteit Kolonialisme Liminaliteit Literêre dominant Narratief Narratologiese strategiëe Postkolonialisme Postmodernisme Post-postmodernisme Ruimte & Plek Skipbreukeling

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