Download e-book for iPad: Historical Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and by Fran Mason

By Fran Mason

ISBN-10: 0810855984

ISBN-13: 9780810855984

Postmodernist literature embraces a variety of types and views, together with texts which are essentially self-reflexive; texts that use pastiche, burlesque, parody, intertextuality and hybrid types to create textual realities that both run against or in parallel with an exterior fact; fabulations that strengthen either one of those concepts; texts that ironize their dating to fact; works that use the elements already famous to extra absolutely have interaction with political or cultural realities; texts that care for heritage as a fiction; and texts that elude categorization even in the style already explored. for instance, in fiction, a postmodernist novel may well inform a narrative a couple of author being affected by writing (only, might be, to discover that he's a personality in a publication by way of one other author suffering to write down a book). The ancient Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and Theater examines the several components of postmodernist literature and the range of varieties which were produced. this can be comprehensive via an inventory of acronyms, a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and a number of other hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries on person postmodernist writers, the $64000 postmodernist aesthetic practices, major texts produced during the heritage of postmodernist writing, and significant routine and ideas that experience created a number of literary techniques in the shape. by means of putting those matters in the historic, philosophical, and cultural contexts of postmodernism, this reference explores the frameworks in which postmodernist literature of the past due 20th and early twenty-first century operates.

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