TY - BOOK ID - 1733032 TI - Rethinking postmodernism(s) : Charles S. Peirce and the pragmatist negotiations of Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, and Jonathan Safran Foer PY - 2008 VL - 40 SN - 9789042024151 PB - Amsterdam : Rodopi, DB - UniCat KW - Pynchon, Thomas KW - Peirce, Charles Sanders KW - Foer, Jonathan Safran KW - Morrison, Toni KW - American fiction KW - Postmodernism (Literature) KW - Pragmatism. KW - History and criticism. KW - Peirce, Charles S. KW - Pynchon, Thomas. KW - Morrison, Toni. KW - Foer, Jonathan Safran, KW - 82.015.9 KW - Literaire stromingen: postmodernisme KW - 82.015.9 Literaire stromingen: postmodernisme KW - United States KW - Foer, Jonathan KW - Criticism and interpretation KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Postmodernisme et littérature KW - Littérature américaine KW - États-Unis KW - 20e siècle KW - Histoire et critique KW - Postmodernisme et littérature KW - Littérature américaine KW - États-Unis KW - 20e siècle UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1733032 AB - Rethinking Postmodernism(s) revisits three historical sites of American literary postmodernism: the early postmodernism of Thomas Pynchon's V. (1961), the emancipatory postmodernism of Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987), and the late or post-postmodernism of Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated (2002). For the first time, it confronts these texts with the pragmatist philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce, staging a conceptual dialogue between pragmatism and postmodernism that historicizes and recontextualizes customary readings of postmodern fiction. The book is a must-read for all interested in current reassessments of literary postmodernism, in new critical dialogues between seminal postmodern texts, and in recent attempts to theorize the ‘post-postmodern' moment...Back cover. ER -