International Postmodernism

Theory and literary practice

Editors

Hans Bertens | University of Utrecht

Douwe W. Fokkema | University of Utrecht

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Containing more than fifty essays by major literary scholars, International Postmodernism divides into four main sections. The volume starts off with a section of eight introductory studies dealing with the subject from different points of view followed by a section that deals with postmodernism in other arts than literature, while a third section discusses renovations of narrative genres and other strategies and devices in postmodernist writing. The final and fourth section deals with the reception and processing of postmodernism in different parts of the world.
Three important aspects add to the special character of International Postmodernism: The consistent distinction between postmodernity and postmodernism; equal attention to the making and diffusion of postmodernism and the workings of literature in general; and the focus on the text and the reader (i.e., the reader's knowledge, experience, interests, and competence) as crucial factors in text interpretation.
This comprehensive study does not expressly focus on American postmodernism, although American interpretations of postmodernism are a major point of reference. The recognition that varying literary and cultural conditions in this world are bound to produce endless varieties of postmodernism made the editors, Hans Bertens and Douwe Fokkema, opt for the title International Postmodernism.

[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XI] 1997. xvi, 581 pp.

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Published online on 21 October 2008

https://doi.org/10.1075/chlel.xi

Table of Contents

I. Introductory Essays

1.1 The Debate on Postmodernism

Hans Bertens | p. 3

1.2 The Semiotics of Literacy Postmodernism

Douwe W. Fokkema | p. 15

1.3 The Inscription of Postmodenism in Poetry

James McCorkle | p. 43

1.4 The Politics of Postmodernism after the Wall

Susan Rubin Suleiman | p. 51

1.5 Rethinking the Postmodernity of the Discourse of postmodernism

William Spanos | p. 65

1.6 Postmodernity as a Philosophical Concept

Wolfgang Welsch and Mike Sandbothe | p. 75

1.7 The Concept of Postmodernism from a Philosophical Point of View

Noël Carroll

1.8 The Sociology of Postmodernity

Hans Bertens | p. 103

II. Postmodernism in the Other Arts

2.0 Introductory Note | p. 121

2.1 Post-modern Architecture and Time Fusion

Charles Jencks | p. 123

2.2 Postmodernism and Theatrical Performance

Johannes Birringer | p. 129

2.3 Postmodernism and Film

James Peterson | p. 141

2.4 Postmodern Dance

Sally Banes | p. 151

2.5 On Postmodernism in Music

Hermann Danuser | p. 157

2.6 Postmodernism and the Visual Arts

Mark A. Cheetham | p. 167

III. Renovations and Innovations in Postmodernist Writing

3.0 Introductory Note | p. 177

3.1 Postmodernist Renovations of Narrative Genres

3.1.1. The Western

Theo D’haen | p. 183

3.1.2 The Detective

Hans Bertens | p. 195

3.1.3 Historical Fiction: Utopia in History

Elisabeth Wesseling | p. 203

3.1.4 The Heimat Novel

Andrea Kunne | p. 213

3.1.5 Autobiography

Alfred Hornung | p. 221

3.1.6 Science Fiction

Brian McHale | p. 235

3.2 Other Strategies and Devices in Postmodernist Writing

3.2.1 Rewriting

Matei Calinescu | p. 243

3.2.2 Intertextuality

Ulrich Broich | p. 249

3.2.3 Self-referentiality

Marcel Cornis-Pope | p. 257

3.2.4 The Refutation of Truth Claims

Elrud Ibsch | p. 265

3.2.5 Nonteleological Narration

Mihály Szegedy-Maszák | p. 273

3.2.6 Postmodernisms: From Fantastic to Magic Realist

Theo D’haen | p. 283

IV. The Reception and Processing of Postmodernism

4.0 Introductory Note | p. 297

4.1 An Arkeology of (My) Canadian Postmodern

Robert Kroetsch | p. 307

4.2 Latin America

4.2.1. Postmodernism in Spanish-American Writing

Julio Ortega | p. 315

4.2.2. Postmodernism in Brazil

Eduardo De Faria Coutinho | p. 327

4.3 Western and Southern Europe

4.3.1. Postmodernism in the United Kingdom and the republic of Ireland

Richard Todd | p. 337

4.3.2. Postmodernism in France

Geert Lernout | p. 353

4.3.3. Postmodernism in the German- and Dutch- Speaking Countries

Frans Ruiter | p. 359

4.3.4. Postmodernism in Scandinavia

Morten Kyndrup | p. 375

4.3.5. Postmodernism in Finland

Anna Makkonen | p. 383

4.3.6. Postmodernism in Italy

Monica Jansen | p. 387

4.3.7. Postmodernity and Literture in Spain

Enric Bou and Andrés Soria Olmedo | p. 397

4.3.8.Postmodernism in Portugal

Maria Alzira Seixo | p. 405

4.4. Central and Eastern Europe

4.4.1. Postmodernism in Slovak Literature

Tibor Zilka | p. 413

4.4.2. Postmodernism in Czech Literature

Milan Suchomel | p. 419

4.4.3. Postmodernism in Poland

Halina Janaszek-Ivanicková | p. 423

4.4.4. Postmodern Literature in Hungary

Mihály Szegedy-Maszák | p. 429

4.4.5. Romanian Postmodernism: The Politics of Poetics

Marcel Cornis-Pope | p. 435

4.4.6. Postmodernism in the Literatures of Former Yugoslavia

Edward Mozejko | p. 441

4.4.7. Postmodernism in Post-Soviet Latvia

Inguna Bekere | p. 447

4.4.8. Postmodernism in Russia

Sergei Kuznetsov | p. 451

4.5 africa

4.5.1. Postmodernism in African Literature in English

Chantal Zabus | p. 463

4.5.2. Postmodernism and African Francophone Literature

Eric Sellin | p. 469

4.5.3. Modernism and Postmodernism in African Literatute in Portuguese

Alberto Carvalho | p. 477

4.5.4. South Africa: Postmodernism in Afrikaans and English Literature

André Brink | p. 483

4.6. Facets of postmodernism: A Search for Roots. The Indian Literacy Scene

Indra Nath Choudhuri | p. 491

4.7. The Reception of Postmodernism in China: The Case of Avant-Garde Fiction

Wang Ning | p. 499

4.8. Postmodernism in Japan

Kodama Sanehide and Inoue Ken | p. 511

Contributors | p. 517

Subject Index | p. 553

Index of Names | p. 558

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