Postmodern literature

Evaluate how challenges to certainty are shaped by and reflected in the ways texts in this elective experiment with language and form. Textual dynamic texts convey the stark departure from established ideologies such as humanism, capitalism and the notion of progress following the events of World War II that induced a loss of faith in humanity and science. Composers experimented with language and form, attempting to communicate the postmodernist concerns of epistemological uncertainty through…

unreal. What Jackson fails to note is that the more ‘unreal’ texts can be effectively subversive in their own way, partly because they have the ability to sneak past our ‘verbal defences. Jackson tries to trace a historical development in fantastic literature from the marvellous towards the uncanny, but here as well her results are predetermined by the narrowness of her approach: In what we could call a supernatural economy, otherness is transcendent, marvellously different from the human: the…

More than 23 years have passed since the war was over whereas Vonnegut struggle to compile few words into a novel was not over. He already realized that he couldn’t tell his story in the conventional narrative mode and he needed a new approach to describe a situation that goes beyond human comprehension. According to Robert Tally Vonnegut’s critique of ‘old-fashioned storytellers” is really a critique of the mistaken view that life has ‘a beginning, middle and an end.’ That is why Vonnegut…

summarize and analyze the novel named ‘’The Crying a Lot’’. This novel belongs to Thomas Pynchon who is one of the best in postmodernist literature. I will explain 1960s period, short summarize of book and communication problem in the novel. Firstly I want to start with short entrance about the period when Thomas Pynchon wrote this novel. He is an American postmodern novelist. His novels contains lots of question. It was written in the 1960s. In this decade there were lots of problems like drug…

become vital; that is the purpose of this work. There exist several ways of investigating the Nights in contemporary fiction. One of them is to examine a particular aspect of the collection and how it is used intertextually in modern and postmodern fiction. For instance, we can study the Arabian Nights intertexts as they come out in feminist works and…

First and most clear thing that Jane Gallop talks about is how in 1960’s literature plays role in society and society plays role in literature. Also author describes that through term “Criticism” author refers to what, by the 1960’s was certainly the most commonly practiced in form of scholarship. More importantly, Outside of literary studies, “literary criticism”…

Through the formal division of the book into two parts, Mailer seeks to establish an inquiry about the status of genres traditionally polarized as fiction and history, literature and journalism, novel and history. In this sense, if the first part of the work appears to be a novel about the March, Mailer says, because of the fictional techniques employed, on the other hand it also approaches the biography, a kind of autobiographical…

MPhil English Literature Supervisor: Shamshad Rasool Department of English, University of Gujrat Table of Contents 1. Introduction……………………………………………… a. Introduction to the writer…………………………. b. Introduction to postcolonial theory……………….. 2. Research objective(s)…………………………………… 3. Research problem………………………………………. 4. Literature review……………………………………….. 5. Theoretical…

very chaotic. In the field of poetry, as well as in other fields of literature, we found a huge activity. Thousands of poems are published daily by thousands. Sales are indeed limited, but almost every poet, but "little" - did find some viewers. Confusion…

Tomás Rivera’s bildungsroman novel ‘y no se lo tragó la tierra’ - translated into English as ‘…and the Earth did not devour him’ is a seminal piece of literature within the Chicano literary movement, as it portrayed a realism not seen within the genre ever before. The semi-autobiographical novel was published in 1971, and the influential text deals with a broad spectrum of aspects as it depicts life growing up within the Mexican American migrant community, with the text itself commentating on…