[PDF] Postmodern Fiction In Europe And The Americas eBook

Author : Emil Volek
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 14,47 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780815332565

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Since the mid-twentieth century, Latin America has been swept by a wave of momentous changes that some have called "the second modernization," accelerated by an exploding population, rampant urbanization, and world-wide trends in technology, economy, and culture. These postmodern upheavals have transformed traditional landscapes and created striking new developments, which - despite their magnitude - have yet to be properly understood in the United States and Europe. Now, after years of marginalization in the international debate on global change, Latin American scholars present their own response to the theories and practices of postmodernity in this revelatory collection of essays. Editor Emil Volek has assembled contributions across a range of interdisciplinary perspectives that illuminate contemporary Latin American culture by high-lighting from within many changes scarcely noticed in Europe and the U.S. Issues discussed in light of these recent changes include the notorious Latin American conflicts with modernity, the vexing problems of cultural identity, strategies of resistance to global trends, and the pervasive misconceptions about Latin American culture perpetuated within the United States and Europe. Together the essays clarify that Latin America is neither what it used to be nor what it is expected to be, but rather a new reality long overlooked by the world beyond. Book jacket.

Author : Larry McCaffery
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 20,38 MB
Release : 1986-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :

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The scope of the work is broad, with European and Latin American influences well represented. Recommended for collections that emphasize fiction of the past two decades. Library Journal

Author : Richard Ruland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 32,66 MB
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317234146

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Widely acknowledged as a contemporary classic that has introduced thousands of readers to American literature, From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature brilliantly charts the fascinating story of American literature from the Puritan legacy to the advent of postmodernism. From realism and romanticism to modernism and postmodernism it examines and reflects on the work of a rich panoply of writers, including Poe, Melville, Fitzgerald, Pound, Wallace Stevens, Gwendolyn Brooks and Thomas Pynchon. Characterised throughout by a vibrant and engaging style it is a superb introduction to American literature, placing it thoughtfully in its rich social, ideological and historical context. A tour de force of both literary and historical writing, this Routledge Classics edition includes a new preface by co-author Richard Ruland, a new foreword by Linda Wagner-Martin and a fascinating interview with Richard Ruland, in which he reflects on the nature of American fiction and his collaboration with Malclolm Bradbury. It is published here for the first time.

Author : Raymond Federman
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 22,63 MB
Release : 1993-10-21
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780791416808

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This book examines how, beginning in the 1960s up to the present, a new type of fiction was created in America, but also in Europe and Latin America, in response to the cultural, social, and political turmoil of the time. The author has coined the term “Surfiction” for this New Fiction. Written in an informal, provocative style, by an internationally known practitioner, these essays examine the cultural, social, and political conditions that forced serious writers to reflect (often within the work itself) on the act of writing fiction in the modern world. The entire book can be read as a manifesto for the present and future of the new fiction. This book is the first in the SUNY series in Postmodern Culture, edited by Joseph Natoli.

Author : J. Green
Publisher : Springer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 13,7 MB
Release : 2005-05-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1403980403

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Does the novel have a future? Questions of this kind, which are as old as the novel itself, acquired a fresh urgency at the end of the twentieth-century with the rise of new media and the relegation of literature to the margins of American culture. As a result, anxieties about readership, cultural authority and literary value have come to preoccupy a second generation of postmodern novelists. Through close analysis of several major novels of the past decade, including works by Don DeLillo, Philip Roth, Kathryn Davis, Jonathan Franzen and Richard Powers, Late Postmodernism examines the forces shaping contemporary literature and the remarkable strategies American writers have adopted to make sense of their place in culture.

Author : Yaw Agawu-Kakraba
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 38,77 MB
Release : 2010-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0708322727

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"Postmodernity in Spanish Fiction and Culture" is a compelling study that combines elements of cultural studies and literary studies in order to present an integrated cultural representation of the emergence of a postmodern social constitution of contemporary Spain. Marking a sweeping reposition from earlier works about postmodernity and postmodernism in Spain, "Postmodernity in Spanish Fiction and Culture" makes a strong connection between postmodernity as social and economic conditions that are the result of unique features of a Spain of the 20th and 21st century, and postmodernism as life-style experiences that manifest new cultural and artistic practices of the 1980s and beyond. The study examines postmodernity by relating it to those exclusive social and cultural experiences that are patently Spanish (the movida, desencanto, immigration, globalization, and terrorism) and concludes that by virtue of Spain's unique socio-cultural, economic, and political history, not only does the country emerge as one of the most postmodern of all European nations but also that the conditions that define the country's evolution from the mid 1980s to the present constitute a distinctively authentic postmodernity.

Author : Martin Travers
Publisher :
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 11,70 MB
Release : 1998
Category : European literature
ISBN : 9780333594544

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"Each chapter concludes with a detailed chronology of the major literary texts of each movement, covering fiction, drama and poetry."--Cover.