Modernism/postmodernismPeter Brooker The concepts of 'Modernism' and 'Postmodernism' constitute the single most dominant issue of twentieth-century literature and culture and are the cause of much debate. In this influential volume, Peter Brooker presents some of the key viewpoints from a variety of major critics and sets these additionally alongside challenging arguments from Third World, Black and Feminist perspectives. His excellent Introduction and detailed headnotes for each section and essay provide an indispensable guide to interpreting the many different opinions, and prove to be valuable contributions in their own right. |
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... narrator interrupts to forestall our objections in the name of a kind of postmodern mimesis of process , reminding ... narration of the social relations of individuals , the ordering of meanings for the individual in society ' ( Stephen ...
... narrator interrupts to forestall our objections in the name of a kind of postmodern mimesis of process , reminding ... narration of the social relations of individuals , the ordering of meanings for the individual in society ' ( Stephen ...
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... narrator is omniscient and controlling , as well as being our contemporary and in complicity with us as readers . He uses this power and position to emphasise from the start the limits of his ( and our ) language . As a boy Grenouille ...
... narrator is omniscient and controlling , as well as being our contemporary and in complicity with us as readers . He uses this power and position to emphasise from the start the limits of his ( and our ) language . As a boy Grenouille ...
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... narrator who admits to being a compiler of discourses and whose text is woven out of thousands of documents researched by the author . Of course , documents have always functioned in this way in historical fiction of any kind . But in ...
... narrator who admits to being a compiler of discourses and whose text is woven out of thousands of documents researched by the author . Of course , documents have always functioned in this way in historical fiction of any kind . But in ...
Contents
Reconstructions | 1 |
Modernist Positions | 37 |
WALTER BENJAMIN from The Work of Art in the Age | 45 |
Copyright | |
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