Tom McCarthy’s Remainder is a piece of metafiction that helps to “map the paradoxical remainder of the genre after everything novelistic has been subtracted from it”. It centres around a nameless narrator who‚ in the aftermath of an undisclosed accident‚ finds himself coming into eight and a half million pounds in compensation and uses said money to fund actors to replicate scenarios in order to find true authenticity. Marco Roth claims that the neuronovel “allegoris[es]the novelist’s fear of his
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CHAPTER 1 The concept of ‘Postmodernism’- A Theoretical Approach It is a cliché by now to say that we live in a postmodern world‚ and it is true that the word ’postmodern’ has become one of the most used‚ and abused‚ words in the language. Still‚ it is striking that not many people can say with assurance what this term actually means and involves. Some theorists suggest that ‘postmodernism’ refers to a mood or an attitude of mind‚ others define it as a literary‚ cultural
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and debates In sociological theory there are many concepts discussed that are utilized in the analyses of society and culture. Some of the main concepts are Postmodernism‚ Historical Materialism‚ Structuralism‚ Interpretive Sociology and Poststructuralism to name a few. These theories are relevant to the research of understanding certain or specific cultural texts. These concepts provide problems and solutions associated with some of the research approaches fore-mentioned. Analysing the main dimensions
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Postmodernism ¡§There is a sense in which if one sees modernism as the culture of modernity‚ postmodernism is the culture of postmodernity¡¨ (Sarup 1993). ¡§Modern‚ overloaded individuals‚ desperately trying to maintain rootedness and integrity...ultimately are pushed to the point where there is little reason not to believe that all value-orientations are equally well-founded. Therefore‚ increasingly‚ choice becomes meaningless. According to Baudrillard (1984: 38-9)‚ we must now come to terms
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Ed. by Y. Hakutani. – Madison: Fairleigh Division University Press‚ 2002. – 214 p. 36. Postmodernism. A Reader / ed. by Patricia Waugh – London: Routledge‚ 1992. – 894 p. 37. The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. – From Formalism to Poststructuralism. – Cambridge: Cambridge University Press‚ 1995. – Vol.8. – P. 14-79. 38. Travers M. An Introduction to modern European Literature. From Romanticism to Postmodernism. – N. Y.: Saint Martin Press‚ 1998. – 281 p. of the novel “Angels and Insects”
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One author I specifically highlight is Roland Barthes and his work with language. Barthes‚ a 20th century French literary philosopher and cultural critic‚ focused on semiotics‚ social theory‚ and poststructuralism. In his work The Rustle of Language‚ Barthes (1986) suggests that “[t]he first effect of spelling is discriminatory; but it also has secondary effects of a psychological disorder (p. 44).” In this quote Barthes encompasses often exclusionary
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The Structure of Myth and the Structure of Western Film Based on Saussure (1974)‚ structuralism is a theoretical method derived from his theoritical work. He divides language into two component parts which together produce a third (signifier‚ signified and meaning). According to him‚ meaning is produced through a process of combination and selection. As Saussure insists‚ “In language‚ there are only differences without positive terms… language has neither ideas not sounds that existed before
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incomprehensible and unnecessary. In their eyes‚ talking about post-modernism is the intellectual blindness‚ or at least a desperate search for something “new” and “different”. Some might think that postmodernism is a fashionable set of “new ideas” (poststructuralism‚ postindustrialism). But these ideas increased with time. Other researchers believe that postmodernism quite openly supports relativism‚ because it has some ability to explain certain things and at the same time is the enemy of the idea and the
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Terry Eagleton What is Literature Doing a polemical study of contemporary literary theory‚ Eagleton introduces us in this world explaining what is actually fiction. a. Imaginative writing One definition is that literature is imaginative writing‚ based on its fictionality and do not engage in the literal truth. However‚ Eagleton rejects this theory‚ since the literature also includes nonfiction genres such as essay and autobiography. Distinguishing between fiction and fact‚ or truth and fantasy
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Jacques Derrida’s “Structure‚ Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences.” In his essay Derrida‚ mainly mentions and uses five main terms; Deconstruction‚ center of the structure‚ structurality of structure‚ bricolage and totalisation. Derrida explains deconstruction as “reading the text against itself‚ reading against the grain”‚ which means deconstruction is used for to find the gaps and silences in a text which are not mentioned by the author of the text. The purpose of deconstruction
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