TY  - BOOK
AU  - Amian,Katrin
TI  - Rethinking postmodernism(s): Charles S. Peirce and the pragmatist negotiations of Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, and Jonathan Safran Foer 
T2  - Postmodern studies
SN  - 9789401205986
AV  - PS379 A45 2008
U1  - 808.80113 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Amsterdam, New York
PB  - Rodopi
KW  - Foer, Jonathan Safran,
KW  - Morrison, Toni.
KW  - Peirce, Charles S.
KW  - Pynchon, Thomas.
KW  - Postmodernism (Literature)
KW  - United States
KW  - fast
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401205986
ER  -