Rethinking postmodernism(s) : Charles S. Peirce and the pragmatist negotiations of Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, and Jonathan Safran Foer /
Amian, Katrin.
Rethinking postmodernism(s) : Charles S. Peirce and the pragmatist negotiations of Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, and Jonathan Safran Foer / Katrin Amian. - 1 online resource (ix, 239 pages) - Postmodern studies ; 41 . - Postmodern Studies 41. Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2008, ISBN: 9789004357952. .
Includes bibliographical references.
Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Toward a New Postmodern Language Game: C. S. Peirce and the Pragmatist Language of Creativity and Consensus -- Creativity and Power: Thomas Pynchon’s V. -- Consensus and Difference: Toni Morrison’s Beloved -- Creativity and Consensus: Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated -- Conclusion -- Works Cited.
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Rethinking Postmodernism(s) revisits three historical sites of American literary postmodernism: the early postmodernism of Thomas Pynchon’s V. (1961), the emancipatory postmodernism of Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987), and the late or post-postmodernism of Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated (2002). For the first time, it confronts these texts with the pragmatist philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce, staging a conceptual dialogue between pragmatism and postmodernism that historicizes and recontextualizes customary readings of postmodern fiction. The book is a must-read for all interested in current reassessments of literary postmodernism, in new critical dialogues between seminal postmodern texts, and in recent attempts to theorize the ‘post-postmodern’ moment.
9789401205986
10.1163/9789401205986 DOI
Foer, Jonathan Safran, 1977-
Foer, Jonathan Safran, 1977-
Morrison, Toni.
Peirce, Charles S. 1839-1914.
Pynchon, Thomas.
Postmodernism (Literature)--United States.
Postmodernism (Literature)
United States.
PS379 / A45 2008
808.80113
Rethinking postmodernism(s) : Charles S. Peirce and the pragmatist negotiations of Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, and Jonathan Safran Foer / Katrin Amian. - 1 online resource (ix, 239 pages) - Postmodern studies ; 41 . - Postmodern Studies 41. Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2008, ISBN: 9789004357952. .
Includes bibliographical references.
Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Toward a New Postmodern Language Game: C. S. Peirce and the Pragmatist Language of Creativity and Consensus -- Creativity and Power: Thomas Pynchon’s V. -- Consensus and Difference: Toni Morrison’s Beloved -- Creativity and Consensus: Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated -- Conclusion -- Works Cited.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Rethinking Postmodernism(s) revisits three historical sites of American literary postmodernism: the early postmodernism of Thomas Pynchon’s V. (1961), the emancipatory postmodernism of Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987), and the late or post-postmodernism of Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated (2002). For the first time, it confronts these texts with the pragmatist philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce, staging a conceptual dialogue between pragmatism and postmodernism that historicizes and recontextualizes customary readings of postmodern fiction. The book is a must-read for all interested in current reassessments of literary postmodernism, in new critical dialogues between seminal postmodern texts, and in recent attempts to theorize the ‘post-postmodern’ moment.
9789401205986
10.1163/9789401205986 DOI
Foer, Jonathan Safran, 1977-
Foer, Jonathan Safran, 1977-
Morrison, Toni.
Peirce, Charles S. 1839-1914.
Pynchon, Thomas.
Postmodernism (Literature)--United States.
Postmodernism (Literature)
United States.
PS379 / A45 2008
808.80113