Nostalgic postmodernism: the victorian tradition and the contemporary british novel - Couverture souple

Gutleben, Christian

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9042012978 ISBN 13 : 9789042012974

Editeur : Editions Rodopi B.V., 2001

Synopsis

Why do so many contemporary British novels revert to the Victorian tradition in order to find a new source of inspiration? What does it mean from an ideological point of view to build a modern form of art by resurrecting and recycling an art of the past? From a formal point of view what are the aesthetic priorities established by these postmodernist novels? Those are the main questions tackled by this study intended for anybody interested in the aesthetic and ideological evolution of very recent fiction.
What this analysis ultimately proposes is a reevaluation and a redefinition of postmodernism such as it is illustrated by the British novels which paradoxically both praise and mock, honour and debunk, imitate and subvert their Victorian models. Unashamedly opportunistic and deliberately exploiting the spirit of the time, this late form of postmodernism cannibalizes and reshapes not only Victorianism but all the other previous aesthetic movements - including early postmodernism.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Editions Rodopi B.V.
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9042012978
• ISBN 13: 9789042012974
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 252
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible