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The theme of The Planetary Clock is the representation of time in postmodern culture and the way temporality as a global phenomenon manifests itself differently across an antipodean axis. To trace postmodernism in an expansive spatial and temporal arc, from its formal experimentation in the 1960s to environmental concerns in the twenty-first century, is to describe a richer and more complex version of this cultural phenomenon. Exploring different scales of time from a Southern Hemisphere perspective, with a special emphasis on issues of Indigeneity and the Anthropocene, The Planetary Clock offers a wide-ranging, revisionist account of postmodernism, reinterpreting literature, film, music, and visual art of the post-1960 period within a planetary framework. By bringing the culture of Australia and New Zealand into dialogue with other Western narratives, it suggests how an antipodean impulse, involving the transposition of the world into different spatial and temporal dimensions, has long been an integral (if generally occluded) aspect of postmodernism. Taking its title from a Florentine clock designed in 1510 to measure worldly time alongside the rotation of the planets, The Planetary Clock ranges across well-known American postmodernists (John Barth, Toni Morrison) to more recent science fiction writers (Octavia Butler, Richard Powers), while bringing the US tradition into juxtaposition with both its English (Philip Larkin, Ian McEwan) and Australian (Les Murray, Alexis Wright) counterparts. By aligning cultural postmodernism with music (Messiaen, Ligeti, Birtwistle), the visual arts (Hockney, Blackman, Fiona Hall), and cinema (Rohmer, Haneke, Tarantino), this volume enlarges our understanding of global postmodernism for the twenty-first century.
Postmodernism (Literature) --- Postmodernism. --- Postmodernisme. --- Postmodernisme et littérature.
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Aesthetics. --- Foucault, Michel (1926-1984) --- Bourdieu, Pierre (1930-2002) --- Esthétique --- Postmodernisme et littérature --- Littérature --- Philosophie --- Esthétique --- Postmodernisme et littérature --- Littérature
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Play in literature. --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Fiction --- History and criticism. --- Postmodernism (Literature). --- Jeu --- Postmodernisme et littérature --- Littérature --- Dans la littérature --- 20e siècle --- Histoire et critique --- Littérature --- Postmodernisme et littérature --- 20e siècle --- Dans la littérature
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Performing Drama/Dramatizing Performance examines the interaction between avant-garde performance and mainstream text-oriented drama. The author begins with a historical survey of American alternative theater, from its origins in the 1960s avant-garde through the theoretical and formalist experimental work of the 1970s. He then traces how, over the last thirty years, the two strands have been slowly merging, allowing contemporary theater artists the opportunity to intertwine elements of both performance and drama to produce innovative integrated works. This study puts recent developments in performance in context, making them more accessible to students unfamiliar with avant-garde and recent theory and to those confused by this new and often disorienting work. Vanden Heuvel places the disparate directions in contemporary theory into an interpretive framework that will aid scholars from a variety of fields: English and dramatic literature, contemporary theater history, performance studies, and cultural studies.
Experimental theater. --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Theater --- Drama --- Théâtre expérimental --- Postmodernisme (Littérature) --- Théâtre --- Théâtre (Genre littéraire) --- History --- History and criticism. --- Histoire --- Histoire et critique --- Theatre experimental --- Postmodernisme (Litterature) --- Theatre --- Theatre (Genre litteraire) --- Théâtre expérimental --- Postmodernisme (Littérature) --- Théâtre --- Théâtre (Genre littéraire) --- Postmodernisme et littérature --- Postmodernisme et littérature
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In the Western literary tradition, the Jew has long been a figure of ethnic exclusion and social isolation - the wanderer, the scapegoat, the alien. But it is no longer clear where a perennial outsider belongs. This provocative study of contemporary British writing points to the figure of the "jew" as the litmus test of multicultural society. Efraim Sicher and Linda Weinhouse examine the "jew" as a cultural construction distinct from the "Jewishness" of literary characters in novels by, among others, Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, Doris Lessing, Monica Ali, Caryl Philips, and Zadie Smith, as well as contemporary art and film. Here the image of the "jew" emerges in all its ambivalence, from postcolonial migrant and modern everyman to more traditional representations of the conspirator and malefactor. The multicultural discourses of ethnic and racial hybridity reflect dissolution of national and personal identities, yet the search for transnational, cultural forms conceals both acceptance of marginal South Asian, Caribbean, or Jewish voices and the danger of resurgent anti-semitic tropes. Innovative in its contextualization of the "jew" in the multiculturalism debate in contemporary Britain, Under Postcolonial Eyes analyzes the narrative of identities in a globalized culture and offers new interpretations of postmodern classics.
English literature --- Jews in literature. --- Postcolonialism --- Judaism and literature --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Juifs --- Postcolonialisme --- Littérature anglaise --- Postmodernisme et littérature --- History and criticism. --- Dans la littérature --- Histoire et critique --- Postmodernisme et littérature. --- Dans la littérature. --- Histoire et critique. --- Littérature anglaise --- Postmodernisme et littérature. --- Dans la littérature.
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"The Story of "Me" shows that the burgeoning of autofiction serves as a barometer of American literature from modernist authorial effacement to postmodern literary self-consciousness". Autofiction, or works in which the eponymous author appears as a fictionalized character, represents a significant trend in postwar American literature, when it proliferated to become a kind of postmodern cliché.charts the history and development of this genre, analyzing its narratological effects and discussing its cultural implications. By tracing autofiction's conceptual issues through case studies and an array of texts, Marjorie Worthington sheds light on a number of issues for postwar American writing: the maleness of the postmodern canon-and anxieties created by the supposed waning of male privilege-the relationship between celebrity and authorship, the influence of theory, the angst stemming from claims of the "death of the author," and the rise of memoir culture.Worthington constructs and contextualizes a bridge between the French literary context, from which the term originated, and the rise of autofiction among various American literary movements, from modernism to New Criticism to New Journalism.demonstrates that the burgeoning of autofiction serves as a barometer of American literature, from modernist authorial effacement to postmodern literary self-consciousness.
Postmodernism (Literature) --- Self in literature. --- Autobiography in literature. --- American fiction --- Autobiographical fiction --- American literature --- History and criticism. --- Autobiography in literature --- Self in literature --- History and criticism --- Roman autobiographique américain --- Roman américain --- Moi --- Postmodernisme et littérature --- Histoire et critique. --- Dans la littérature. --- Égotisme. --- Roman autobiographique américain --- Roman américain --- Égotisme. --- Postmodernisme et littérature
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Opposing all claims that theory has come to an end, this book presents a fresh perspective on our reading, understanding, and application of theory and its affect on our interpretation of texts. (In)fusion theory challenges efforts to see theory as inhibiting by presenting an approach that is innovative, eclectic, and subtle in order to draw out competing and constellating ideas and opinions. This collected volume of essays examines (In)fusion theory and demonstrates how the theory can be applied to the reading of various works of Indian English novelists such as Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, Anita Desai, and Vikram Seth.
Indic fiction (English) --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Postcolonialism --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Roman indien (de l'Inde) de langue anglaise --- Littérature postcoloniale --- Postcolonialisme --- Postmodernisme et littérature --- History and criticism. --- 20e siècle --- Inde --- Histoire et critique --- Littérature postcoloniale --- Postmodernisme et littérature --- 20e siècle
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The central thesis of this book is that Philip Roth's work is most accurately viewed as postmodernist American Historical Romance, rather than marginalized as Jewish-American. Four works are analyzed in relation to this thesis and to the specific idea that Roth's contribution is entirely within mainstream American literature and culture. Emphasizing the importance and influence of Hebrew Scripture, the author demonstrates that, paradoxically, Roth's Jewishness locates him squarely within the canon of (a Hebraic) America and its letters.
American fiction --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Roth, Philip (1933-....) --- Roman américain --- Postmodernisme et littérature --- Jewish authors --- History and criticism. --- Critique et interprétation --- Auteurs juifs --- États-Unis --- Roth, Philip --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Histoire et critique --- Roman américain --- Postmodernisme et littérature --- Critique et interprétation --- États-Unis
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Fiction --- Spanish-American literature --- anno 1900-1999 --- Historical fiction, Latin American --- Historical fiction --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Roman historique latino-américain --- Roman historique --- Postmodernisme (Littérature) --- Congresses --- Congrès --- Congresses. --- Roman historique latino-américain --- Postmodernisme (Littérature) --- Congrès --- Roman historique hispano-américain --- Postmodernisme et littérature --- Littérature et histoire --- 20e siècle --- Histoire et critique --- Amérique latine --- Roman historique hispano-américain --- Postmodernisme et littérature --- Littérature et histoire --- 20e siècle --- Amérique latine
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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.
Pynchon, Thomas --- Peirce, Charles Sanders --- Foer, Jonathan Safran --- Morrison, Toni --- American fiction --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Pragmatism. --- History and criticism. --- Peirce, Charles S. --- Pynchon, Thomas. --- Morrison, Toni. --- Foer, Jonathan Safran, --- 82.015.9 --- Literaire stromingen: postmodernisme --- 82.015.9 Literaire stromingen: postmodernisme --- United States --- Foer, Jonathan --- Criticism and interpretation --- 20th century --- History and criticism --- Postmodernisme et littérature --- Littérature américaine --- États-Unis --- 20e siècle --- Histoire et critique --- Postmodernisme et littérature --- Littérature américaine --- États-Unis --- 20e siècle
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