Essays in American Studies • Postmodern Perspectives, Сборник, Полис | Polis Publishers, 2003

Essays in American Studies • Postmodern Perspectives

Автор: Сборник
Раздел: Литературна критика, литературознание
Издателство: Полис | Polis Publishers
Народност: българска
ISBN:
първо издание, 2003 год.
меки корици, 160 стр.
Цена: 4,80 лв

Essays in American Studies • Postmodern Perspectives
Edited by Kornelia Slavova/Съставител Корнелия Славова

Has postmodernism already turned demode? The book Essays in American Studies: Postmodern Perspectives (the fifth in the American Studies Series) addresses this vexed question as well as many other points of contention among postmodern scholars such as the representation of history and reality, the construction of self and subjectivity, the „cannibalization” of texts and genres, the power of logos as a driving force in postmodern writing, as well as the role of queer theory and cybertextuality in providing new models for interpretation.
The contributors come from different cultural backgrounds and they view American culture/ literature from both „inside” and „outside”, they speak in distinct critical voices, and have chosen different literary material for analysis (such as the works of Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Paul Auster, Kathy Acker, Paula Vogel, Tony Kushner, Linda Hogan, Henry James, and others). Yet all the essays deal with various forms of postmodern subversions - i.e. subversions both deriving from and targeted at postmodernism.
The book will provide new insights and excitement for the readers of American literature in Bulgaria, as well as new perspectives upon the complexity of postmodern literary and cultural texts.

CONTRIBUTORS:
Allen Thiher
Yonka Krasteva
Madeleine Danova
Steven G. Kellman
Ralitsa Muharska
Svetlana Mintcheva
Dimitar Kambourov
Kornelia Slavova
Kornelia Taneheva
Susan E. Gunter
Alexandra Glavanakova-Yaneva

Contents
Introduction - Kornelia Slavova
Allen Thiher
Postmodern Fiction and History
Yonka Krasteva
The Representation of History and the History
of Representation in Linda Hogan's Mean Spirit
Madeleine Danova
Problematizing History
in Postmodern Native American Writing
Steven G. Kellman
Don DeLillo's Logogenetic Underworld
Ralitsa Muharska
Shifting Readabilities: a Hard Case of Masculinity(?)
Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow
Svetlana Mintcheva
Journeys of Wonder through Cities of Decay:
Kathy Acker in Quest of a Myth to Live By
Dimitar Kambourov
The Tramp as an American Dream:
Paul Auster's Postmodern Moralism
Kornelia Slavova
The Re/turn of the Real: The Uses of Trauma
in Tony Kushner's Angels in America
Kornelia Tancheva
The Cannibal Inside: Paula Vogel
and the Loose Bolts of the American Theatre
Susan E. Gunter
Henry James and the Postmodern:
A Queer Reading of "The Pupil"
Alexandra Glavanakova-Yaneva
Getting Lost in Hyperfiction