Postmodern Literature - Couverture souple

Gregson, Dr Ian

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0340813717 ISBN 13 : 9780340813713

Editeur : Hodder Arnold, 2004

Synopsis

Book by Gregson Ian

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

A fascinating variety of writing has been produced in the period since the Second World War. Much of this can be helpfully understood by reference to postmodernism. Many important texts in the period, however, are distorted when this label is applied to them, and others are actively anti-postmodernist.

Postmodern Literature accessibly defines postmodernism, compares and contrasts it with modernism, and places it in its historical context, especially in relation to crucial phenomena like Auschwitz, the clashing of ideologies, and the prevalence of propaganda and misinformation. It discusses the major theorists of postmodernism, Jean-François Lyotard, Fredric Jameson and Jean Baudrillard, and demonstrates how their theories illuminate the work of postmodernist writers such as John Ashbery, Walter Abish and Angela Carter. It defines the key postmodern theories of language, race and gender - poststructuralism, postcolonialism and feminism - and explores their often fraught relationships with postmodernism in relation to important writers such as Toni Morrison, Adrienne Rich and Salman Rushdie.

The book also discusses important postmodern phenomena which are inadequately represented by postmodernist theories. It draws attention, for example, to important strands of realism in contemporary writing, and to a continuing discussion of Nature which has been crucial in the culture, for example in ecological anxieties and questionings of genetic modification, cloning and so on. This discussion has been consistently under-represented in the theory but has been a crucial theme in the literature such as in the work of Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney and Margaret Atwood.

Revue de presse :

A succinct and focused introduction to key areas of critical analysis in this area. (Mr J Marland, School of York St John College 2005-02-24)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Hodder Arnold
• Date d'édition: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0340813717
• ISBN 13: 9780340813713
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192