Essays about: "Postmodern Fiction"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the words Postmodern Fiction.
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1. Hang on to the Words : Knowledge Tokens, Hierarchies, and Concurrent Narratives in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy has received substantial critical attention inthe fields of ecocriticism, the ethics of bioengineering, and feminist theory. However, the vast majority of this criticism has focussed on Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood, the first two books in the trilogy. READ MORE
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2. Tick-Tock or Not: Don DeLillo’s Point Omega and the Unreliability of Postmodern Time : A Barthesian analysis investigating the shifting meanings of ’writerly’ temporality
University essay from Södertörns högskola/EngelskaAbstract : Born out of an interest in the subjective perception of time, and a desire to test the possibilities of applying the structuralist/poststructuralist analytical framework laid out by Roland Barthes in his S/Z on a contemporary work of fiction, this essay is first and foremost a foray into the shifting meanings of time in Don DeLillo’s 2010 novel Point Omega, and by extension the post-millennial era as a whole. Against a complex backdrop concerning the nature of time in postmodernity, gleaned from a review of articles by Mitchum Huehls, Frederic Jameson and Ursula K. READ MORE
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3. The Postmodern Aesthetic of Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – MediaAbstract : This thesis examines The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) by Junot Díaz as an example of postmodern fiction. The thesis begins with a background chapter that outlines the central characteristics of postmodern fiction, followed by three chapters that tackle one main postmodern aspect of the novel each: fragmentation, metafiction and intertextuality. READ MORE
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4. “Bridging the Lonely Distances”: A Study of Metaphorical and Physical Voice in Don DeLillo’s The Names from the Perspective of Post-Classical Narratology
University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : This paper explores narratology with a focus on metaphorical and physical voice in Don DeLillo’s 1982 novel, The Names. Beginning with an overview of previous criticism on the novel and an exploration of its post-modern qualities, I progress into a discussion of meaning, and how it can be found in the narratological voice. READ MORE
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5. Belonging in the Hyperreal : A Postmodern Reading of Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go
University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkulturAbstract : The focus of this essay is Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go. My central claim is that a theme of belonging underpins the novel and is recurrent in a number of different ways. In my reading, I utilise Jean Baudrillard’s postmodern critical concepts to produce this interpretation. READ MORE
