Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Short Story in English.
Sacido, Jorge.
Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Short Story in English. - Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, 2012. - 1 online resource (275 pages) - Postmodern Studies ; v. 48 . - Postmodern studies ; v. 48. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Modernism, postmodernism, and the short story in English / Refocusing "modernism" through the short story. The short story and the difficulty of modernism / Allegory and fragmentation in Wyndham Lewis's The wild body and Djuna Barnes's A book / Subject vanishes: modernist contradiction, postmodernist effacement and the short story genre. Man in a sidecar: madness, totality and narrative drive the short story / Stories, spectres, screens / The writing machine: J.G. Ballard in modern and postmodern short story theory / The subject reappears: postcolonial conflict and the other's stories. Postmodernist tales from the couch / Mind the gap: modernism in Salman Rushdie's postmodern short stories / One anOther: Englishness in contemporary Irish short fiction / Short stories from the contemporary underground. A move against the dinosaurs: the new puritans and the short story / Jorge Sacido -- Adrian Hunter ; José María Díaz -- Tim Armstrong ; Fred Botting ; Paul March-Russell -- Esther Sánchez-Pardo ; J. Manuel Barbeito and María Lozano ; Manuela Palacios -- José Francisco Fernández. I. II. III. IV.
How can the short story help to redefine modernism, postmodernism and their interrelationship? What is the status of the short story in modern literary history? These are the central questions that the essays collected in this volume try to answer from different perspectives through readings of short fiction in English and accounts of the genre's theorisations. The essays by a group of international scholars tackle theoretical issues that are central in approaches to both "movements" such as periodisation, autonomy, high vs. popular literature, totality vs. fragmentation, surface vs. depth, ot.
9789401208321 (electronic bk.) 9401208328 (electronic bk.)
10.1163/9789401208321. doi
1900-1999
Postmodernism.
Literature, Modern--History and criticism.--20th century
Postmodernisme.
Littérature--Histoire et critique.--20e siècle
LITERARY COLLECTIONS--Essays.
Literature, Modern.
Postmodernism.
Englisch
Kurzgeschichte
Moderne
Postmoderne
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PN98.P67 BX8729 / .S468 2012
824.92
Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Short Story in English. - Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, 2012. - 1 online resource (275 pages) - Postmodern Studies ; v. 48 . - Postmodern studies ; v. 48. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Modernism, postmodernism, and the short story in English / Refocusing "modernism" through the short story. The short story and the difficulty of modernism / Allegory and fragmentation in Wyndham Lewis's The wild body and Djuna Barnes's A book / Subject vanishes: modernist contradiction, postmodernist effacement and the short story genre. Man in a sidecar: madness, totality and narrative drive the short story / Stories, spectres, screens / The writing machine: J.G. Ballard in modern and postmodern short story theory / The subject reappears: postcolonial conflict and the other's stories. Postmodernist tales from the couch / Mind the gap: modernism in Salman Rushdie's postmodern short stories / One anOther: Englishness in contemporary Irish short fiction / Short stories from the contemporary underground. A move against the dinosaurs: the new puritans and the short story / Jorge Sacido -- Adrian Hunter ; José María Díaz -- Tim Armstrong ; Fred Botting ; Paul March-Russell -- Esther Sánchez-Pardo ; J. Manuel Barbeito and María Lozano ; Manuela Palacios -- José Francisco Fernández. I. II. III. IV.
How can the short story help to redefine modernism, postmodernism and their interrelationship? What is the status of the short story in modern literary history? These are the central questions that the essays collected in this volume try to answer from different perspectives through readings of short fiction in English and accounts of the genre's theorisations. The essays by a group of international scholars tackle theoretical issues that are central in approaches to both "movements" such as periodisation, autonomy, high vs. popular literature, totality vs. fragmentation, surface vs. depth, ot.
9789401208321 (electronic bk.) 9401208328 (electronic bk.)
10.1163/9789401208321. doi
1900-1999
Postmodernism.
Literature, Modern--History and criticism.--20th century
Postmodernisme.
Littérature--Histoire et critique.--20e siècle
LITERARY COLLECTIONS--Essays.
Literature, Modern.
Postmodernism.
Englisch
Kurzgeschichte
Moderne
Postmoderne
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PN98.P67 BX8729 / .S468 2012
824.92