Defining Literary Postmodernism for the Twenty-First Century. (2019)
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- Book
- Title:
- Defining Literary Postmodernism for the Twenty-First Century. (2019)
- Main Title:
- Defining Literary Postmodernism for the Twenty-First Century
- Further Information:
- Note: Matthias Stephan.
- Authors:
- Stephan, Matthias
- Contents:
- I. Introduction a. Literary Postmodernism b. The Structure of Defining Literary Postmodernism for the Twenty-First Century Part 1: Defining Postmodernism II. What do the theorists say (and how do they fit)? a. Lyotard and The Postmodern Condition b. Strong Postmodernism and Political Efficacy c. Linda Hutcheon and Historiographic Metafiction III. Characteristically Postmodern a. Metafiction b. 'All the world's a stage' – Parody, Play and Intertextuality c. Isn't it Ironic? – Postmodern Irony d. The Dominant of Postmodernist Fiction IV. Mapping the Space of Postmodernism a. The Call for the Spatial Metaphor b. Postmodern Space, or the Cognitive Mapping of Late Capitalism c. The Name of the Map: The Skein, The Maze, and The Net d. Rhizome – The Postmodern Metaphor e. Mapping (hyper)reality: The Orders of Simulacra f. A 'structure of consciousness' g. The Postmodern Structure of Consciousness Part 2: Postmodernism in Praxis V. Whodunit? And how do we know? (or do we?): The Structure of the Epistemological Investigation in Detective Fiction a. What is detective fiction? b. The Classical Model: Logic and Deduction c. The Modernist Model: Legwork and Induction d. The Postmodern Detective Novel: Can we know whodunit? e. The Late Modernist Detective Fiction: Modernist with a Twist f. Conclusion VI. What world is this? Who am I (in it?)?: The Structure of the Ontological Formation in Science Fiction a. The History of Science Fiction b. Ontological Certainty or Predestination: TheI. Introduction a. Literary Postmodernism b. The Structure of Defining Literary Postmodernism for the Twenty-First Century Part 1: Defining Postmodernism II. What do the theorists say (and how do they fit)? a. Lyotard and The Postmodern Condition b. Strong Postmodernism and Political Efficacy c. Linda Hutcheon and Historiographic Metafiction III. Characteristically Postmodern a. Metafiction b. 'All the world's a stage' – Parody, Play and Intertextuality c. Isn't it Ironic? – Postmodern Irony d. The Dominant of Postmodernist Fiction IV. Mapping the Space of Postmodernism a. The Call for the Spatial Metaphor b. Postmodern Space, or the Cognitive Mapping of Late Capitalism c. The Name of the Map: The Skein, The Maze, and The Net d. Rhizome – The Postmodern Metaphor e. Mapping (hyper)reality: The Orders of Simulacra f. A 'structure of consciousness' g. The Postmodern Structure of Consciousness Part 2: Postmodernism in Praxis V. Whodunit? And how do we know? (or do we?): The Structure of the Epistemological Investigation in Detective Fiction a. What is detective fiction? b. The Classical Model: Logic and Deduction c. The Modernist Model: Legwork and Induction d. The Postmodern Detective Novel: Can we know whodunit? e. The Late Modernist Detective Fiction: Modernist with a Twist f. Conclusion VI. What world is this? Who am I (in it?)?: The Structure of the Ontological Formation in Science Fiction a. The History of Science Fiction b. Ontological Certainty or Predestination: The Classical Approach c. Ontological Uncertainty: The Modernist Approach - Dialectics d. Who Am I? – (Moving Towards) the Posthuman Scenario e. Ontological Indeterminability: The Postmodernist Approach f. Conclusion, or What does SF tell us about Postmodernism? VII. The Postmodern Novel: How it all comes together, in a rhizomatic way a. Svend Åge Madsen – Tugt og utugt i mellemtiden b. Whodunit? And how do we know? c. 'Back then I thought we shouldn't punish one another.' (Madsen 1992, 266) d. Who am I? - It is all so subjective e. Who is telling this story anyway? – Narratological levels and ontological uncertainty f. The Postmodern Novel – Madsen style VIII. Coda: What comes next? (Or what to do with a problem called Postmodernism?) a. Where do we go from here? The Possibility of the Postpostmodern b. Pro-Post-Postmodernism – Or how one argues for postmodernism's afterlife c. Neo-Victorianism d. The 'Outs' of Postmodernism. … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Copyright Date:
- 2019
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (206 pages)
- Subjects:
- Literature
Postmodernism (Literature)
Fiction
Literary Criticism -- Semiotics & Theory
Fiction -- General
Literary theory
Fiction & related items
Literary studies: from c 1900
Literature-Philosophy - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9783030156930
- Related ISBNs:
- 9783030156923
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