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Autor des Buches: matthias, post stephan
Titel des Buches: defining literary postmodernism for the twenty first century

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Autor/in: Matthias Stephan
Titel: Defining Literary Postmodernism for the Twenty-First Century
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer International Publishing
206 Seiten
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019-05-08
Cham; CH
Gedruckt / Hergestellt in Niederlande.
Gewicht: 0,454 kg
Sprache: Englisch
80,24 € (DE)
82,49 € (AT)
88,50 CHF (CH)
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XIII, 206 p.

BB; Postmodern Literature; Hardcover, Softcover / Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft/Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Literaturwissenschaft: 1900 bis 2000; Verstehen; postmodern literature; literary movements; literary periods; science fiction; detective fiction; modernism; postmodern television; postmodern film; Literary Theory; Fiction; Twentieth-Century Literature; Literary Theory; Fiction Literature; Literaturtheorie; Belletristik und verwandte Gebiete; EA; BC

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.

I.                   Introduction

a.       Literary Postmodernism

Part 1: Defining Postmodernism

II.                What do the theorists say (and how do they fit)?

a.       Lyotard and The Postmodern Condition

b.      Strong Postmodernism and Political Efficacy

c.       Linda Hutcheon and Historiographic Metafiction

III.             Characteristically Postmodern

a.       Metafiction

b.      ‘All the world’s a stage’ – Parody, Play and Intertextuality

a.       The Call for the Spatial Metaphor

c.       The Name of the Map: The Skein, The Maze, and The Net

e.       Mapping (hyper)reality: The Orders of Simulacra

f.       A ‘structure of consciousness’

g.      The Postmodern Structure of Consciousness

Part 2: Postmodernism in Praxis

a.       What is detective fiction?

c.       The Modernist Model: Legwork and Induction

d.      The Postmodern Detective Novel: Can we know whodunit?

e.       The Late Modernist Detective Fiction: Modernist with a Twist

f.       Conclusion

VI.             What world is this? Who am I (in it?)?: The Structure of the Ontological Formation in Science Fiction

a.       The History of Science Fiction

b.      Ontological Certainty or Predestination: The Classical Approach

c.       Ontological Uncertainty: The Modernist Approach - Dialectics

e.       Ontological Indeterminability: The Postmodernist Approach

VII.          The Postmodern Novel: How it all comes together, in a rhizomatic way

a.       Svend Åge Madsen – Tugt og utugt i mellemtiden

b.      Whodunit? And how do we know?

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d.      Who am I? - It is all so subjective

f.       The Postmodern Novel – Madsen style

a.       Where do we go from here? The Possibility of the Postpostmodern

c.       Neo-Victorianism

d.      The ‘Outs’ of Postmodernism

“His useful identification and criticism of the insufficiencies of the previous attempts at a unitary definition of postmodernism is straightforwardly valuable. … one of the distinctive qualities of Defining Literary Postmodernism throughout is an interesting debate apropos McHale’s use of the dominant in defining (post)modernist fiction. … postmodernism is worth understanding, and studying, as more than just the thing the present improved upon.” (Ali Dehdarirad, orbit.openlibhums.org, 2021)

, and coordinator of the Centre for Studies in Otherness. 

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. 

Contributes to the understanding and categorization of literary movements

Argues for a rethinking of the definition of postmodernism

Illustrates key aspects of postmodernism via genre fiction