Author: John Calvin Batchelor
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Author: Fran Mason
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442276207
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 587

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The main aim of the book has been to include writers, movements, forms of writing and textual strategies, critical ideas, and texts that are significant in relation to postmodernist literature. In addition, important scholars, journals, and cultural processes have been included where these are felt to be relevant to an understanding of postmodernist writing. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and Theater contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries on postmodernist writers, the important postmodernist aesthetic practices, significant texts produced throughout the history of postmodernist writing, and important movements and ideas that have created a variety of literary approaches within the form. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the postmodernist literature and theater.

Author: Fran Mason
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810870215
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 464

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Postmodernist literature embraces a wide range of forms and perspectives, including texts that are primarily self-reflexive; texts that use pastiche, burlesque, parody, intertextuality and hybrid forms to create textual realities that either run in opposition to or in parallel with an external reality; fabulations that develop both of these strategies; texts that ironize their relationship to reality; works that use the aspects already noted to more fully engage with political or cultural realities; texts that deal with history as a fiction; and texts that elude categorization even within the variety already explored. For example, in fiction, a postmodernist novel might tell a story about a writer struggling with writing (only, perhaps, to find that he is a character in a book by another writer struggling to write a book). The A to Z of Postmodernist Literature and Theater examines the different areas of postmodernist literature and the variety of forms that have been produced. This is accomplished through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and several hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries on individual postmodernist writers, the important postmodernist aesthetic practices, significant texts produced throughout the history of postmodernist writing, and important movements and ideas that have created a variety of literary approaches within the form. By placing these concerns within the historical, philosophical, and cultural contexts of postmodernism, this reference explores the frameworks within which postmodernist literature of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century operates.

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2230

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A world list of books in the English language.

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Languages : en
Pages : 1318

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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1746

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Author: John E. Simkin
Publisher: K. G. Saur
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1228

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This work is the only comprehensive guide to sequels in English, with over 84,000 works by 12,500 authors in 17,000 sequences.

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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 936

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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 744

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Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1828

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