The Politics of Postmodernism

Hutcheon, Linda

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“…And he"s given a regular trial, and then he"s shot by a firing squad. ( p. 4) The reader expects the climax of the narrative to be exactly the same, the event described here happens more or less, but this climax is never actualized since postmodernist narrative denaturalizes the notion of realistic climax as mundane and ideologically orientated. To defy the climax and to problematize the narrative, Vonnegut creates a stream of narration in which the events can not be logically related so much so that no beginning, middle or end can be traced to follow the climax and other narrotological aspects.…”

Section: Stream Of Narration As a Technique In Slaughterhouse-fivementioning

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Kurt Vonnegut‟s Slaughterhouse-Five: A Postmodernist Study

Hooti¹,

Omrani²

2011

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Abstract-This study tries to analyze Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five" from a postmodernist point of view. The concepts used are mostly from a range of literary and psychological resources. Vonnegut applies some narrative techniques which closely match those of the postmodernist diegetic process. The narrative has a potentially representative content which opens one's horizons toward new sources of meaning and conceptual interpretation. The focal point, in this study, is to examine the ontological level, stream of narration, fragmentation, parody and irony to see how tangibly these terms agree with the very context of the abovementioned novel and to find out whether the purely abstract terms extracted from postmodernist theory can be concretized in a practical form. Furthermore, this study aims at scrutinizing in detail the frequency and the possibility of the postmodernist narrative elements in the very fabric and texture of fictional narrative in general.

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Section: Stream Of Narration As a Technique In Slaughterhouse-fivementioning

confidence: 99%

Kurt Vonnegut‟s Slaughterhouse-Five: A Postmodernist Study

Hooti¹,

Omrani²

2011

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“…As Hutcheon (1988) suggests, "[p]ostmodern discourses both install and then contest our traditional guarantees of knowledge, by revealing their gaps or circularities" (p. 127). In Rites of Passage, Golding deliberately inserts delays and gaps in the narrative so as to display the difficulty of representing the truth.…”

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William Golding’s Rites of Passage: Fragments of Tragedy in Postmodern Fiction (William Golding’i̇n Geçi̇ş Ayi̇nleri̇: Postmodern Romanda Trajedi̇ Kirintilari)

Nebioğlu¹

2016

HUMANITAS - Uluslararası Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi

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Abstract:William Golding, as an author deeply interested in man's evil nature, chaos and obscurity, is known for his novels that present an original account of man's experience. In his novels he tackles man's disillusionment with life, the concept of evil, social discrimination, multiple layers of truth and the difficulty of reaching a single and ultimate version of reality. Rites of Passage is one of such novels that is notably dense, dark and difficult to categorize due to its embodiment of different genres, techniques and elements. The novel is also rich with postmodernist strategies such as dialogic relations between different social classes and voices, double-voiced narration, self-reflexive allusions to other works of fiction, parodic use and abuse of different genres, and delays and gaps. These strategies invest the novel with playful yet at the same time tragic tricks that enable the reader to recognize reality as a human construct, life as a pathos and human condition as a tragedy. In this regard, this paper seeks to scrutinize postmodernist aspects in Rites of Passage, exploring the contribution of these aspects to the building up of chaotic and tragic atmosphere of the novel rather than to a playfulness that is expected to arise out of diversity observed both in characterization and in language and structure. Keywords: Postmodernism, Parody, Intertextuality, Metafiction, Golding, Tragedy.WILLIAM GOLDING'İN GEÇİŞ AYİNLERİ: POSTMODERN ROMANDA TRAJEDİ KIRINTILARI Öz: İnsan doğasının kötülüğü, bilinmezlik ve kaos ile yakından ilgilenen William Golding, insan deneyimlerini özgün bir şekilde yansıtan romanlarıyla ün salmıştır. Golding romanlarında genellikle insanoğlunun hayata karşı duyduğu hayal kırıklığı, kötülük kavramı, sosyal ayrım, doğrunun göreceliği ve tek bir doğruya ulaşmanın zorluğu gibi konuları ele alır. Geçiş Ayinleri romanı da oldukça yoğun, kasvetli bir atmosfer çizen ve birçok farklı edebi tür, teknik ve özellikleri bir arada Abstract: William Golding, as an author deeply interested in man's evil nature, chaos and obscurity, is known for his novels that present an original account of man's experience. In his novels he tackles man's disillusionment with life, the concept of evil, social discrimination, multiple layers of truth and the difficulty of reaching a single and ultimate version of reality. Rites of Passage is one of such novels that is notably dense, dark and difficult to categorize due to its embodiment of different genres, techniques and elements. The novel is also rich with postmodernist strategies such as dialogic relations between different social classes and voices, double-voiced narration, self-reflexive allusions to other works of fiction, parodic use and abuse of different genres, and delays and gaps. These strategies invest the novel with playful yet at the same time tragic tricks that enable the reader to recognize reality as a human construct, life as a pathos and human condition as a tragedy. In this regard, this paper seeks to scrutinize postmodernist aspects in Rites...

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“…"Postmodernism ultimately manages to install and reinforce as much as undermine and subvert the conventions and presuppositions it appears to challenge" (Hutcheon, 1990, p.1-2). With postmodern devices, Coetzee negated and subverted the conventions and presuppositions of Euro-centrism by rewriting Robinson Crusoe, so Cruso in Foe became the antithesis of Robinson Crusoe in Robinson Crusoe.…”

Section: Coetzee's Deconstruction Of the Imagined "Englishness" mentioning

confidence: 99%

Construction and Deconstruction of Imagined Community—A Comparative Study of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and J. M. Coetzee’s Foe in Light of Nationalism

Han

2017

JLTR

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The Politics of Postmodernism

Cited by 255 publications

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Kurt Vonnegut‟s Slaughterhouse-Five: A Postmodernist Study

Kurt Vonnegut‟s Slaughterhouse-Five: A Postmodernist Study

William Golding’s Rites of Passage: Fragments of Tragedy in Postmodern Fiction (William Golding’i̇n Geçi̇ş Ayi̇nleri̇: Postmodern Romanda Trajedi̇ Kirintilari)

Construction and Deconstruction of Imagined Community—A Comparative Study of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and J. M. Coetzee’s Foe in Light of Nationalism

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