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Mar 1, 2017 · Introduction: Postmodern literature is a form of literature which is marked both. stylistically and ideologically, by a reliance on such literary conventions as. fragmentation, paradox,...
Steven Connor. Chapter. Book contents. Get access. Share. Cite. Summary. Against poetics. Postmodernism was not the invention of literary critics, but literature can certainly claim to be one of the most important laboratories of postmodernism.
- Steven Connor
- 2004
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Postmodern literature is a form of literature that is characterized by the use of metafiction, unreliable narration, self-reflexivity, intertextuality, and which often thematizes both historical and political issues.
In many ways, the literature of this century is still postmodern, as it challenges grand narratives, monolithic constructions of identity, and many traditions and techniques of literature of the past. (And if it is not, there is no term for what is post-postmodern!)
In treating English literature and theology from the perspective of postmodernism, one can do more than reflect on fiction influenced by cultural postmodernism that also touches on religious matters, and theology marked by postmodernism in one or another sense.
London: Routledge, 2001 (ISBN: 9780415152945) . If your library already has Credo Reference Academic (http://corp.credoreference.com), then this title is already in your collection. However, if it does not, then this is an excellent reference book to add to any library’s collection.
The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodernism surveys the full spectrum of postmodern culture - high and low, avant-garde and popular, famous and obscure - across a range of fields, from architecture and visual art to fiction, poetry, and drama.
