Defining Literary Postmodernism for the Twenty-First Century

• Main Author: Stephan, Matthias (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Postmodernism (Literature).; Literature-Philosophy.; Fiction.; Postmodern Literature.; Literary Theory.

This book presents a definition of literary postmodernism, using detective and science fictions as a frame. Through an exploration of both prior theoretical approaches, and indicators through characteristics of postmodernist fiction, this book identifies a structural framework to both understand and...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• Part I Defining Postmodernism
• 2. What Do the Theorists Say (and How Do They Fit)?
• 3. Characteristically Postmodern
• 4. Mapping the Space of Postmodernism
• Part II Postmodernism in Praxis
• 5. Whodunit? And How Do We Know? (or Do We?): The Structure of the Epistemological Investigation in Detective Fiction
• 6. What World Is This? Who Am I (in It?)?: The Structure of the Ontological Formation in Science Fiction
• 7. The Postmodern Novel: How It All Comes Together, in a Rhizomatic Way
• 8. Coda: What Comes Next? (Or What to Do with a Problem Called Postmodernism?).