Defining Postmodernism
Doctor of Philosophy in English · University · Contemporary Literature
This unit explores the key characteristics and influences of postmodernism in literature, including fragmentation, intertextuality, and the blurring of boundaries between high and low culture. Students will gain an understanding of the major theoretical frameworks and critical approaches to postmodernism, and will be able to apply these frameworks to the analysis of literary texts.
Zum Üben gibt es 27 Aufgaben. Jede Antwort bekommt sofort eine Rückmeldung, kostenlos und ohne Anmeldung.
Das gehört dazu
- The origins and development of postmodernism
- The key characteristics of postmodernism
- The major postmodern literary movements and authors
- The postmodern novel
- Postmodern poetry
- Postmodern drama
- Postmodern film
- The postmodern condition
- The postmodern subject
- The postmodern city
- The postmodern body
- The postmodern sublime
Stichworte
- Postmodernism
- Fragmentation
- Intertextuality
- High and Low Culture
- Metafiction
- Historiographic Metafiction
- Magic Realism
- Postcolonialism
- Feminism
- Queer Theory