Beyond Postmodernism: Reassessment in Literature, Theory, and Culture

Published by De Gruyter 2003

Beyond Postmodernism

Reassessment in Literature, Theory, and Culture

Edited by: Klaus Stierstorfer

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110906813

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About this book

After the veritable hype concerning postmodernism in the 1980s and early 1990s, when questions about when it began, what it means and which texts it comprises were apt to trigger heated discussions, the excitement has notably cooled down at the turn of the century. Voices are now beginning to be heard which seem to suggest a new episteme in the making which points beyond postmodernism, while it remains at the same time very uncertain whether what appears as newness is not rather a return to traditional concepts, theoretical premises, and authorial practices. Contributors to this volume propose to explore new openings and recent developments in anglophone literatures and cultural theories which engage with issues seen to be central in the construction of a postmodern paradigm, but deal with them in ways that promise new openings or a new Zeitgeist.

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Klaus Stierstorfer is Professor for English Literature at the University of Düsseldorf.

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Introduction: Beyond Postmodernism – Contingent Referentiality? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
The Persistence of the Modernist Heritage
Why the Postmodern Age Will Last PETER V. ZIMA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
A New Sense of Reality? A New Sense of the Text? Exploring Meta-Realism and the Literary-Critical Field PHILIP TEW Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
Hear the Voice of the Artist: Postmodernism as Faustian Bargain LENA PETROVIC Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
The Threefold Way: About the Heuristics and Paradigmatics of (Post)Modernist Culture and Literature BERND KLÄHN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
Modernist at Best: Poeticity and Tradition in Hyperpoetry PETER PAUL SCHNIERER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Beyond Postmodernist Thirdspace? – The Internet in a Post-Postmodern World DORIS TESKE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
Re-Reading Postmodernism
Pragmatic Commitments: Postmodern Realism in Don DeLillo, Maxine Hong Kingston and James Ellroy CHRISTOPHE DEN TANDT Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
Why Derrida Is Not a Postmodernist CHRISTOPHER NORRIS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
Paradox vs. Analogy: De Man and Foucault HELGA THALHOFER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
‘Civilization’s Fear of Nature’: Postmodernity, Culture, and Environment in The God of Small Things PETER MORTENSEN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Beyond Postmodernism
Beyond Postmodernism: Toward an Aesthetic of Trust IHAB HASSAN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Wobbly Grounds: Postmodernism’s Precarious Footholds in Novels by Malcolm Bradbury, David Parker, Salman Rushdie, Graham Swift KLAUS STIERSTORFER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Beyond Indifference: New Departures in British Fiction at the Turn of the 21st Century VERA NÜNNING Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Shades of Gray: The Peculiar Postmodernism of Alasdair Gray DIETMAR BÖHNKE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
American Postmodernist Literature at the Turn of the Millennium: the Death and Return of the Subject VICTORIA LIPINA-BEREZKINA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
The Anglo-Irish Playwright Martin McDonagh: Postmodernist Zeitgeist as Cliché and a (Re)turn to the Voice of Common Sense SUSANNE PETERS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
Extension of the Battle Zone: Ian McEwan’s Cult Novel The Cement Garden LAURENZ VOLKMANN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319
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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 331
Keywords: Postmoderne /i.d. Literatur; Englischsprachige Literatur; Ästhetik

eBook

Published: May 2, 2012
ISBN: 9783110906813

Hardcover

Published: September 22, 2003
ISBN: 9783110177220