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Being the first to outline the literary genre, Gothic-postmodernism, this book articulates the psychological and philosophical implications of terror in postmodernist literature, analogous to the terror of the Gothic novel, uncovering the significance of postmodern recurrences of the Gothic, and identifying new historical and philosophical aspects of the genre. While many critics propose that the Gothic has been exhausted, and that its significance is depleted by consumer society's obsession with instantaneous horror, analyses of a number of terror-based postmodernist novels here suggest that the Gothic is still very much animated in Gothic-postmodernism. These analyses observe the spectral characters, doppelgangers, hellish waste lands and the demonised or possessed that inhabit texts such as Paul Auster's City of Glass, Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses and Bret Easton Ellis's Lunar Park. However, it is the deeper issue of the lingering emotion of terror as it relates to loss of reality and self, and to death, that is central to the study; a notion of 'terror' formulated from the theories of continental philosophers and contemporary cultural theorists. With a firm emphasis on the sublime and the unrepresentable as fundamental to this experience of terror; vital to the Gothic genre; and central to the postmodern experience, this study offers an insightful and concise definition of Gothic-postmodernism. It firmly argues that 'terror' (with all that it involves) remains a connecting and potent link between the Gothic and postmodernism: two modes of literature that together offer a unique voicing of the unspeakable terrors of postmodernity.
Gothic fiction (Literary genre) --- Terror in literature --- Postmodernism --- 82 --- 82-312.9 --- 82.015.9 --- 82-34 --- Literatuur. Algemene literatuurwetenschap --- Fantastische literatuur --- Literaire stromingen: postmodernisme --- Sprookje. Legende. Mythe --- 82-34 Sprookje. Legende. Mythe --- 82.015.9 Literaire stromingen: postmodernisme --- 82-312.9 Fantastische literatuur --- 82 Literatuur. Algemene literatuurwetenschap --- 82 Literature in general --- Literature in general --- Littérature d'épouvante --- Postmodernisme et littérature --- Littérature d'épouvante --- Postmodernisme et littérature
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Postmodern fiction presents a challenge to the reader: instead of enjoying it passively, the reader has to work to understand its meanings, to think about what fiction is, and to question their own responses. Yet this very challenge makes postmodern writing so much fun to read and rewarding to study. Unlike most introductions to postmodernism and fiction, this book places the emphasis on literature rather than theory. It introduces the most prominent British and American novelists associated with postmodernism, from the 'pioneers', Beckett, Borges and Burroughs, to important post-war writers such as Pynchon, Carter, Atwood, Morrison, Gibson, Auster, DeLillo, and Ellis. Designed for students and clearly written, this Introduction explains the preoccupations, styles and techniques that unite postmodern authors. Their work is characterized by a self-reflexive acknowledgement of its status as fiction, and by the various ways in which it challenges readers to question common-sense and commonplace assumptions about literature.
American literature --- English literature --- anno 1980-1989 --- anno 1960-1969 --- anno 1950-1959 --- anno 1970-1979 --- Littérature anglaise --- --Postmodernisme --- --Fiction --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- History and criticism --- Fiction --- History and criticism. --- 820-31 "19" --- Engelse literatuur: novel; roman--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- 820-31 "19" Engelse literatuur: novel; roman--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- Literary movements --- Literature, Modern --- Modernism (Literature) --- Post-postmodernism (Literature) --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Postmodernisme --- Fiction - 20th century̨ - History and criticism --- Postmodernisme et littérature --- Roman anglais --- Roman américain --- 20e siècle --- Histoire et critique --- Postmodernisme et littérature --- Roman américain --- 20e siècle
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