'Closing the Gap': American Postmodern Fiction in Germany, Italy, Spain, and the NetherlandsTheo d'. Haen, Johannes Willem Bertens Rodopi, 1997 - 267 páginas |
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The Academic Reception | 69 |
DANIELA DANIELE | 151 |
FRANCISCO COLLADORODRÍGUEZ | 173 |
FRANS RUITER | 207 |
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academic AEDEAN American Novel American postmodernism American Studies amerikanische Amerikastudien/American Studies Anbeek Anglistik und Amerikanistik authors avantgarde Barthelme's Berlin Bernd Klähn concept of postmodernism conference contemporary American fiction copies Crying of Lot cultural debate deconstruction Donald Barthelme Dutch literary Dutch literature edition eighties Enden der Parabel Entropie essay excerpt experimental Fiedler Frankfurt am Main Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Freese Gerhard Hoffmann German Gravity's Rainbow Heide Ziegler Ihab Hassan innovative intertextuality John Barth John Hawkes Klaus Kurt Vonnegut literary critics metafiction Milano modernism modernist narration narrative Netherlands Nuis op.cit perspective Peter Torberg playful postmodern American literature postmodern fiction postmodern literature postmodernist presented published Pütz Raymond Federman reader reading reception Reinbek reprints Richard Brautigan Robert Coover Roman Ronald Sukenick Rowohlt satire Schöpp Schreibheft self-reflexive short stories Sot-Weed Factor Spanish Stuttgart Suhrkamp Tabakhändler texts Thomas Pynchon tradition Transl Übers University Walter Abish Welt William Gass writers Zeit Zeitschrift für Anglistik
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Página 212 - Heute liegt die politische Harmlosigkeit aller literarischen, ja aller künstlerischen Erzeugnisse überhaupt offen zutage: schon der Umstand, daß sie sich als solche definieren lassen, neutralisiert sie. Ihr aufklärerischer Anspruch, ihr utopischer Überschuß, ihr kritisches Potential ist zum bloßen Schein verkümmert.
Página 176 - Historiographic metafiction incorporates all three of these domains: that is, its theoretical self-awareness of history and fiction as human constructs (historio^rap/n'c meta fiction) is made the grounds for its rethinking and reworking of the forms and contents of the past.
Página 198 - The pain immediately passed, but in the fiery gap he had seen something unbearably awesome, the full horror of the abysmal depths of chess. He glanced at the chessboard and his brain wilted from hitherto unprecedented weariness. But the chessmen were pitiless, they held and absorbed him. There was horror in this, but in this also was the sole harmony, for what else exists in the world besides chess?
Página 20 - Richard Farina's Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me...
Página 171 - The research carried out for the writing of this paper has been financed by the Spanish Ministry of Education (DGICYT, Programa Sectorial de Promocion del Conocimiento, 1991).
Página 176 - historiographic metafiction." By this 1 mean those well-known and popular novels which are both intensely self-reflexive and yet paradoxically also lay claim to historical events and personages: The French Lieutenant's Woman, Midnight's Children, Ragtime, Legs, G. , Famous Last Words.
Página 109 - ... of the modern world. Given this context, neither the variations on modernism of the 1950s nor the struggle of the 1960s for alternative democratic and socialist cultural traditions could have possibly been construed as postmodern. The very notion of postmodernism has emerged in Germany only since the late 1970s, and then not in relation to the culture of the 1960s, but narrowly in relation to recent architectural developments and, perhaps more importantly, in the context of the new social movements...
Página 73 - Rainbow can be seen as the effort of a writer who fully realizes the potentials of paranoid as well as antiparanoid delusions. His answer to the challenge of this dichotomy is the attempt to expose at once the dangers of both by showing that their respective ideals, structured order and entropic chaos, do not stand in final opposition to each other. If there is any single message cutting loud and clear through the infernal din of...
Página 93 - What seems to have been the distinguishmg mark of the post-modern text is that it strives to become as self-sufficient as female innocence, but self-sufficiency engenders the paradox of simultaneous presence and absence As soon as the fiction text begins to lose its mediating function between the author and the reader and begins to become an independent...
Página 91 - The fantastic in the text, freed from its immanent opposition to the real and often separated from the psychological, becomes capable of a multiplicity of new meanings, of new perspectives, among them the comical, satirical and grotesque. The perspectives of the comical, satirical and grotesque have, however, a special fnnction io the postmodern text. Having become aspects of the fantastic, they transform the fantastic into a critical perspective that shows up diserepancies and is oriented towards...