Nostalgic Postmodernism

2001 History

Author : Christian Gutleben
Release : 2001
Genre : History
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Download or read book Nostalgic Postmodernism written by Christian Gutleben. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Nostalgic Postmodernism

2005 Education

Author : Lois Shawver
Release : 2005
Genre : Education
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Book Rating : 801/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Nostalgic Postmodernism written by Lois Shawver. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here's a book on postmodernism that is written in plain English. Whereas many books on postmodernism are so obscure that the Flesch index of readability goes off the chart (see Fredric Jameson's books, for example), Shawver's book is of average readability. That's excellent for a book on postmodernism. Her reviewers, too, seem inevitably to comment on the book's clear style. In this readable book, Shawver tells us the story of how therapy became postmodern. When therapy was modern, she tells us, therapists did therapy within the guidelines of specific schools. The postmodern therapist, however, works like a fine chef, highly trained, but invariably changing the recipe and spicing the food with her own salsa. Nostalgic postmodernism is just an early guilt-ridden phase in this postmodernism, but the postmodern therapist soon morphs out of nostalgia and recognizes and appreciates her postmodern shift. This story of the postmodernization of the therapists is cast, in this book, in the context of the history of therapy, and, to some extent, in the context of the author's own experience of her own postmodernization.

After Fellini

2002-06-05 History

Author : Millicent Joy Marcus
Release : 2002-06-05
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 474/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book After Fellini written by Millicent Joy Marcus. This book was released on 2002-06-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, Marcus interprets a body of work that managed to transcend the decline of Italian cinema's prominence within the industry during the last two decades of the 20th-century.

Defining Literary Postmodernism for the Twenty-First Century

2019-04-25 Literary Criticism

Author : Matthias Stephan
Release : 2019-04-25
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 931/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Defining Literary Postmodernism for the Twenty-First Century written by Matthias Stephan. This book was released on 2019-04-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a definition of literary postmodernism, using detective and science fictions as a frame. Through an exploration of both prior theoretical approaches, and indicators through characteristics of postmodernist fiction, this book identifies a structural framework to both understand and apply the lessons of postmodernism for the next generation. Within a growing consensus that the postmodern era has passed, this book examines the different conceptions of postmodernism and posits a meaningful definition, one which can provide the foundation for future literary expression. This theory is then applied to genre fiction, particularly detective fiction and science fiction, demonstrating that postmodernism is found in the structure, rather than questions posed about literary expression. Finally, Matthias Stephan considers post-postmodern movements, and how they can be expressed given this definition of literary postmodernism, moving forward to the twenty-first century.

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