Approaching postmodernism : papers presented at a Workshop on Postmodernism, 21-23 September 1984, University of Utrecht /

Most of the essays collected in this volume deal with theoretical issues that dominate the international debate on Postmodernism, issues such as the shifting nature of the concept, the problem of periodization and the problem of historicity. Other essays offer readings of Postmodernist texts and rel...

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Corporate Author: Workshop on Postmodernism University of Utrecht
Other Authors: Fokkema, Douwe Wessel, 1931-2011, Bertens, Johannes Willem
Format: Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1986.
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Table of Contents:
  • APPROACHING POSTMODERNISM; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; FOREWORD; Preliminary Remarks; The Postmodern Weltanschauung and its Relation with Modernism: An Introductory Survey; Change of Dominant from Modernist to Postmodernist Writing; The Semantic and Syntactic Organization of Postmodernist Texts; The Presence of Postmodernism in British Fiction: Aspects of Style and Selfhood; From Hypothesis to Korrektur: Refutation as a Component of Postmodernist Discourse; Duplication and Multiplication: Postmodernist Devices in the Novels of Italo Calvino.
  • Postmodernism in Russian Drama: Vampilov, Amalrik, AksënovThe Absurd and its Forms of Reduction in Postmodern American Fiction; Postmodernism in American Fiction and Art; Modernism Cut in Half: The Exclusion of the Avant-garde and the Debate on Postmodernism; Postmodernism and Some Paradoxes of Periodization; Naming and Difference: Reflections on "Modernism versus Postmodernism" in Literature; Note on the Contributors; References; Index; The series Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature.