RE: Reading the Postmodern

Canadian Literature and Criticism After Modernism
Herausgeber: Stacey, Robert David

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Produktbeschreibung

It would be difficult to exaggerate the worldwide impact of postmodernism on the fields of cultural production and the social sciences over the last quarter century-even if the concept has been understood in various, even contradictory, ways. An interest in postmodernism and postmodernity has been especially strong in Canada, in part thanks to the country's non-monolithic approach to history and its multicultural understanding of nationalism, which seems to align with the decentralized, plural, and open-ended pursuit of truth as a multiple possibility as outlined by Jean-François Lyotard. In fact, long before Lyotard published his influential work The Postmodern Condition in 1979, Canadian writers and critics were employing the term to describe a new kind of writing.   RE: Reading the Postmodern marks a first cautious step toward a history of Canadian postmodernism, exploring the development of the idea of the postmodern and debates about its meaning and its applicability to various genres of Canadian writing, and charting its decline in recent years as a favoured critical trope.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Les Presses de l'Universite d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa Press
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9780776607399
• ISBN-10: 0776607391
• Artikelnr.: 30519225

Autorenporträt

Robert David Stacey is assistant professor of Canadian Literature in the Department of English at the University of Ottawa.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: Post
, Marked Canada
Robert David Stacey Part 1 / Retrospections Boundary 2 and the Canadian Postmodern
Robert Kroetsch Canadian Postmodernisms: Misreadings and Non
readings
Frank Davey The Glories of Hindsight: What We Know Now
Linda Hutcheon Part 2 / En garde! Traditions, Counter
traditions, Anti
traditions Postmodern Postmortem: Irony and Literary History in Linda Hutcheon's Poetics
Adam Carter Getting Ready to Have Been Postmodern
Christian Bök Feeling Ugly: Daniel Jones, Lynn Crosbie and Canadian Postmodernism's Second Wave
Stephen Cain Reconciling Regionalism: Spatial Epistemology, Robert Kroetsch and the Roots of Canadian Postmodern Fiction
Alexander MacLeod A Postmodern Decadence in Canadian Sound and Visual Poetry
Gregory Betts Part 3 / Historicities Attack of the Latté
Drinking Relativists: Postmodernism, Historiography and Historical Fiction
Herb Wyile "The Postmodern Impasse" and Guy Vanderhaeghe's The Englishman's Boy
Jennifer Blair Postmodern Realism and Photographic Subjectivity in The Stone Diaries
Deborah Bowen Re
performing Microhistories: Postmodern Metatheatricality in Canadian Millennial Drama
Jenn Stephenson F the Ineffable! The Allegorical Intention in Ghostmodernism
Sylvia Söderlind Part 4 / Publics Bowering, Postmodernism and Canadian Nationalism: A Short Sad Book
Jason Wiens Re: Reading the Postmodern
'MESS IS LORE'
Pauline Butling Why Postmodernism Now? Toward a Poetry of Enactment
Susan Rudy