Postmodern fiction presents a challenge to the reader: instead of enjoying it passively, the reader has to work to understand its meanings, to think about what fiction is, and to question their own responses. Yet this very challenge makes postmodern writing so much fun to read and rewarding to study. Unlike most introductions to postmodernism and fiction, this book places the e...
Postmodern fiction presents a challenge to the reader: instead of enjoying it passively, the reader has to work to understand its meanings, to think about what fiction is, and to question their own responses. Yet this very challenge makes postmodern writing so much fun to read and rewarding to study. Unlike most introductions to postmodernism and fiction, this book places the emphasis on literature rather than theory. It introduces the most prominent British and American novelists associated with postmodernism, from the 'pioneers', Beckett, Borges and Burroughs, to important post-war writers such as Pynchon, Carter, Atwood, Morrison, Gibson, Auster, DeLillo, and Ellis. Designed for students and clearly written, this Introduction explains the preoccupations, styles and techniques that unite postmodern authors. Their work is characterized by a self-reflexive acknowledgement of its status as fiction, and by the various ways in which it challenges readers to question common-sense and commonplace assumptions about literature.
I would prefer to think of postmodern fiction as a particular 'aesthetic' -- a sensibility , a set of principles, or a value-system which unites specific currents in the writing of the latter half of the twentieth century. (xvi) (查看原文)
(1) a self-reflexive acknowledgement of a text's own status as constructed, aesthetic artefact
(2) an implicit (or something explicit) critique of realist approaches both to narrative and to representing a fictional 'world'
(3) a tendency to draw the reader's attention to his or her own process of interpretation as s/he reads the text (查看原文)
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