Postmodern Characters
Author | : Aleid Fokkema |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004647228 |
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Author | : Aleid Fokkema |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004647228 |
Author | : Alexander Löwen |
Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 2012-07-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3656235732 |
Essay from the year 2012 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: keine, University of Bayreuth, course: Reading Samuel Beckett in the context of "post" theories., language: English, abstract: Samuel Beckett ́s plays are quite special. They deal with a great variety of special characters as well. My essay answers the question of how Method Actors may approach those peculiar characters, as in Beckett ́s "Rough for Theatre I".
Author | : Lee Konstantinou |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2016-03-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0674969472 |
Lee Konstantinou examines irony in American literary and political life, showing how it migrated from the countercultural margins of the 1950s to the 1980s mainstream. Along the way, irony was absorbed into postmodern theory and ultimately become a target of recent writers who have moved beyond its limitations with a practice of “postirony.”
Author | : Sezen Kayhan |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2014-10-16 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1443869120 |
Despite the theories about the “death of tragedy”, this book explores fragments and reflections of tragedy in postmodern film. Tragedy has changed and evolved with human society, and its continuous chain from Ancient Greece to modern times has been broken by postmodernism. However, certain aspects of tragedy have continued to be used by literature and film: in particular, films with themes of chaos, violence, popular culture, paranoia, virtual reality and alienation often use aspects of tragedy. The focus of this study is on these facets adopted by postmodern film.
Author | : Fabienne C. Quennet |
Publisher | : LIT Verlag Münster |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9783825855987 |
The two fields of contemporary Native American literature and culture exist in the tension between two literary traditions: the Native oral and literary tradition and the modern Western mainstream literary influence. In her North Dakota quartet Love Medicine (1984), The Beet Queen (1986), Tracks (1988), The Bingo Palace (1994), Native American mixedblood author, Louise Erdrich (b. 1954) exemplifies where and how these traditions meet and interact. A postmodern reading of the quartet shows that Native American authors and literary critics alike need not be afraid to tread into postmodernism, since an interpretation from this perspective opens up the possibility of freeing Native American literature from the limiting label of "ethnic or minority literature" and of establishing it as a vital part of American literature. This postmodern interpretation of Louise Erdrich's quartet offers a discussion of the theoretical issues involved in the context of ethnic writing and its relation to postmodernism, as well as an analysis of her intricate narrative strategies, in particular, her use of multiple perspectives and of intertextual techniques. The main part of the interpretation consists of a reading of postmodern concepts such as magical realism, carnivalesque humor, the relationship between reader and text, gender roles and sexual identities, history and textuality, the trickster figure, and games and chance as can be found in Louise Erdrich's North Dakota quartet.
Author | : A. J. Hoenselaars |
Publisher | : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780838637869 |
"Many fictional works have real, historical authors as characters. Great national literary icons like Virgil and Shakespeare have been fictionalized in novels, plays, poems, movies, and operas. This fashion might seem typically postmodern, the reverse side of the contention that the Author is Dead; but this collection of essays shows that the representation of historical authors as characters can boast of a considerable history, and may well constitute a genre in its own right. This volume brings together a collection of articles on appropriations of historical authors, written by experts in a wide range of major Western literatures."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Ian Gregson |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2008-04-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1441130004 |
This monograph analyses the use of caricature as one of the key strategies in narrative fiction since the war. Close analysis of some of the best known postwar novelists including Toni Morrison, Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates, Angela Carter and Will Self, reveals how they use caricature to express postmodern conceptions of the self. In the process of moving away from the modernist focus on subjectivity, postmodern characterisation has often drawn on a much older satirical tradition which includes Hogarth and Gillray in the visual arts, and Dryden, Pope, Swift and Dickens in literature. Its key images depict the human as reduced to the status of an object, an animal or a machine, or the human body as dismembered to represent the fragmentation of the human spirit. Gregson argues that this return to caricature is symptomatic of a satirical attitude to the self which is particularly characteristic of contemporary culture.
Author | : Theo D'Haen |
Publisher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9789051834383 |
Author | : Kyle Mann |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2022-06-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1684513162 |
From the editor-in-chief and managing editor of the Babylon Bee! A millenial seeker travels through a twenty-first century take on The Pilgrims's Progress with allegorical versions of all our modern vices tempting him along the way—as well as a few timeless personified virtues that just might see him through. Biting satire and uncommon wisdom from the creators of the internet's most influential comedy site, and an author of national bestsellerThe Babylon Bee Guide to Wokeness! Ryan Fleming is a young agnostic reeling from his brother’s death. Though he is deeply angry with God, he makes good on a promise he made to his brother in the final moments of his life: to visit a church at least once. But shortly after his arrival, the slick megachurch’s shoddily installed video projector falls on his head—sending Ryan through a wormhole into another world. After a narrow escape from the City of Destruction, where the comfortably numb townspeople are oblivious to the fire and brimstone falling like bombs in their midst and destroying their homes, Ryan finds himself on a quest: To make it back to his own universe, he must partner with a woman named Faith to awaken a long-sleeping King—the World-Maker who can make all things new. Replete with characters ripped straight from the twenty-first century American church—including Radical, Mr. Satan, the Smiling Preacher, and others—this sometimes-humorous, always-insightful trek parallels Christian’s fictional journey in Pilgrim’s Progress. Prepare to laugh, cry, cringe, feel convicted, and ultimately be changed by the time the story ends. The Postmodern Pilgrim’s Progress is brought to you by Kyle Mann and Joel Berry, the two comedic minds behind The Babylon Bee—which, with 250,000 newsletter subscribers and more than fifteen million page views per month, is the most popular satirical news site on the planet.
Author | : Steven Connor |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2004-07-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521648400 |
The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism offers a comprehensive introduction to postmodernism. The Companion examines the different aspects of postmodernist thought and culture that have had a significant impact on contemporary cultural production and thinking. Topics discussed by experts in the field include postmodernism's relation to modernity, and its significance and relevance to literature, film, law, philosophy, architecture, religion and modern cultural studies. The volume also includes a useful guide to further reading and a chronology. This is an essential aid for students and teachers from a range of disciplines interested in postmodernism in all its incarnations. Accessible and comprehensive, this Companion addresses the many issues surrounding this elusive, enigmatic and often controversial topic.