Reconsidering the Postmodern: European Literature Beyond Relativism - Softcover

 
9789089643698: Reconsidering the Postmodern: European Literature Beyond Relativism
Softcover
ISBN 10: 9089643699 ISBN 13: 9789089643698
Verlag: Routledge, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

From Grunberg to Houellebecq, from Hemon to Marías: contemporary literature is deeply influenced by postmodernism. This timely study takes its reader on a tour of the European novel and the critical discussion around it. Now that postmodernism has been declared moribund, it is time to critically evaluate its literary legacy. Have we gone beyond it in literature and why would we want to go beyond? Twelve specialists in the national literatures sketch the outlines of the debate. Turning to the novels, they find them to be engaged, but not uncritically so. Personal, and still ironic; historical, but not nostalgic; Reconsidering the Postmodern reveals how the European novel has renewed itself.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Thomas Vaessens is professor of modern Dutch literature at the University of Amsterdam and director of the Huizinga Institute. Yra van Dijk is assistant professor of Dutch literature of the University of Amsterdam.

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From Michel Houellebecq to Zadie Smith, from Javier Marías to Arnon Grunberg: this timely study takes its reader on a tour of European literature and the critical discussion around it. Despite recent declarations of postmodernism’s demise, contemporary literature turns out to be entangled in a discussion with postmodernism. It is time to critically evaluate this legacy. Twelve specialists in the national literatures sketch the outlines of the debate. Turning to literature itself, they find it to be searching for new values after the relativizing force of postmodernism.

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From Michel Houellebecq to Zadie Smith, from Javier Marías to Arnon Grunberg: this timely study takes its reader on a tour of European literature and the critical discussion around it. Despite recent declarations of postmodernism s demise, contemporary literature turns out to be entangled in a discussion with postmodernism. It is time to critically evaluate this legacy. Twelve specialists in the national literatures sketch the outlines of the debate. Turning to literature itself, they find it to be searching for new values after the relativizing force of postmodernism.

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Verlag
Routledge
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
9089643699
ISBN 13 
9789089643698
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
324
Herausgeber
Vaessens Thomas, Dijk Yra Van
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