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پدید آورنده
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PN771 .F68 1997
PN771
.
F68
1997
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
079143513X
0791435148
9780791435137
9780791435144
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Narrating postmodern time and space /
[Book]
Joseph Francese
x, 203 pages ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-192) and index
Francese defines postmodern writing and distinguishes it from modernist prose by citing the examples of two modern and three postmodern authors: Italo Calvino, John Barth, Toni Morrison, E.L. Doctorow, and Antonio Tabucchi. While the modernist narratives of Calvino and Barth attempt to assimilate what is other, the postmodern narratives of Morrison, Doctorow, and Tabucchi recognize diversities that cannot be assimilated, instead seeking out external, communicative sources of authentication
To a great extent, these changes in narrative strategy are a response to changes in real living conditions, namely, our modified perception of space and the radical shortening of time horizons caused by recent revolutionary advances in information technology. Although Morrison, Doctorow, and Tabucchi vary in their stylisitic responses to these changes, their narratives propose a collective recovery of the past into a future-oriented present and serve as examples of how literature can intervene in history, rather than merely reflecting and acquiescing to it
Literature, Modern-- 20th century-- History and criticism
Postmodernism (Literature)
809/
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9113
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PN771
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F68
1997
Francese, Joseph
20160712062436.0
مطالعه متن کتاب [Book]
Y
