Postmodernism (Literature)
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The Mediterranean as a Zone (in Pynchon's meaning of the term) in a classic of postmodernist fiction, Joseph Heller's Catch-22.
Re-framing the concepts of utopia and allegory in the twenty-first century.
Przysługujący widmom wywrotowy, niemalże rewolucyjny potencjał został odsunięty oraz zagubiony poprzez pozbycie się tej kontrowersyjnej kategorii z terytorium metafizyki i zbyt pośpieszne odesłanie jej do przestrzeni badań nad literaturą,... more
Most critics of contemporary literature have reached a consensus that what was once called " postmodernism " is over and that its signature modes—metafiction and irony—are on the wane. This is not the case, however, with videogames. In... more
"Chez Beckett, l’écriture articule intimement la dimension esthétique à l’implication subjective du créateur. Dans le premier volume de la Série, nous avons abordé certains aspects de l’impulsion créatrice de Beckett. Dans ce deuxième... more
In "Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth" (1998), Michel Foucault states that before a person can reach a spiritual transformation, they should seek the very truth that will leave one transformed, a phenomenon he describes as "techniques of the... more
Studie sleduje estetický fenomén kýče na pozadí audiovizuální klipové produkce americké zpěvačky Lany del Rey. První část se zaměřuje na analýzu videoklipu k písni "Born to Die" (2011, rež. Yoann Lemoine) s důrazem na jeho kýčovitý a... more
Rorty's pretended displacement of philosophy by literary criticism would really displace literary criticism with a phenomenological style of philosophy. His provenance is not Pragmatism so much as it is Gadamerian phenomenology.
The concepts of ‘choice’, as advocated by two different existentialists, namely Jean Paul Sartre and Soren Kierkegaard, are brought in this paper to discuss the quality of life the main characters of Salman Rushdie’s The Moor’s Last Sigh... more
The themes of Science, Alienation and Dystopia through Huxley’s Brave New World and Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go.
A speculative examination of some manifestations of contemporary Horror through the lens of the Zombie; this article considers the relationship between Zombie Apocalypses, Zombies as agents (or not), and wider aspects of genre and theory... more
Muriel Spark: Twenty-First-Century Perspectives edited by David Herman Dame Muriel Spark—the highly acclaimed Scottish writer—published over twenty novels and more than a dozen short-story collections from the late 1950s until her death... more
The following dissertation will explore the following selection of the word of Brian O'Nolan; At Swim Two Birds, The Third Policeman, The Dalkey Archive and his final novel An Béal Bocht, along with his columns for The Irish Times,... more
A study of the limits of multilingual literary expression in print culture. Beginning with the insight that multilingual literature defies simple translation, Brian Lennon examines the resistance multilingual literature offers to book... more
For the last three years I have been working on my current book project, which is titled Ireland, the Irish, and the Rise of Biofiction. I am nearly finished with a full draft, and I just completed my introduction. If any of you have time... more
“Nowe przygody Królewny Śnieżki. Donald Barthelme i jego szalona bajka” (“New Adventures of Snow White. Donald Barthelme and His Fairy Tale Gone Mad”), afterword to the Polish edition of Donald Barthelme, Królewna Śnieżka (Snow White),... more
"Why feminist? Why postmodernist? A preface Halah Afshar, giving a talk entitled 'Ferninisms, Islamophobia and Identities' at the Feminist and Women's Studies Association Conference, UK (2006), emphasised her sense of having a mobile... more
Book review published in European Journal of American Studies, 28 Nov. 2017.
Through an exploration of narrative strategies in The House Gun, this work provides analysis via postmodernism as literary backdrop to interpret the representation of the socio-cultural condition in post-apartheid South Africa, where the... more
Joanna Scott is one of the most gifted and prominent novelists of the last thirty years. This is a brief description of Scott and her work.
Jeannette Winterson’s novels can always be studied from a postmodern perspective. Postmodernism, though a loosely-defined term, makes reference to a cultural, intellectual, or artistic condition which does not have a direct predominant... more
Abstract: This paper defines contemporary literature’s departure from a post-modern approach in regards to both American and British literature. Contemporary authors (from 1990 onward) have been influenced by the technological age and... more
На VI Меѓународна научна конференција „Меѓународен дијалог: Исток – Запад“ што се одржа во Свети Николе на 17 и 18 април 2015 година во организација на Меѓународниот славјански универзитет „Гаврило Романович Державин“, Ранко Младеноски... more
The monograph, "John Banville," offers a close analysis of most of Banville’s major novels, as well as the ‘Quirke’ crime novels he has written under the pseudonym Benjamin Black and his dramatic adaptations of Heinrich von Kleist’s... more
Chapter 14: Postmodern cities. 5,000 words. This chapter discusses the two principal strands of the postmodern city novel: texts in which the city is presented as a verbal labyrinth, simulacrum, or technoscape (e. g. the fiction of... more
Recensione di Roberto Vecchioni, Rotary Club of Malindi, Columbia Sony Music, 2004.
Książka "Allotopie. Topografia światów fikcjonalnych" powstała z bardzo przyziemnej potrzeby: stworzenia swego rodzaju kompendium zbierającego teorie fikcji i narracji przydatne w analizowaniu literatury fantastycznej i światotwórczej. W... more
In this paper, I explore the ways in which Vladimir Nabokov incorporates different literary genres in his novel Ada or Ardor by analyzing the different elements and the examples of the literary genres identified in the narrative. I will... more
Representations of motherhood abound in almost all great literatures and cultures. While the traditional portrayal of motherhood followed a set pattern and favoured the mother-son relationships, the contemporary literature contests with... more
Cinema and literature are both forms of narration and reality representation, while cinema has visual nature and literature has literary one. In reading we experience the author’s style while in watching movie we cannot. Style is the... more
Во македонската книжевна критика и воопшто во современата македонска книжевност значајно место зазема Венко Андоновски – писател, поет, есеист, драмски автор, публицист и универзитетски професор. Овој труд претставува осврт кон... more