The Gamefulness of American Postmodernism: John Barth & Louise ErdrichP. Lang, 2000 - 176 páginas This book examines the twin problems of play and game in American literary postmodernism. There have been many studies of the function of play in postmodernism, but very few have discussed the role of game without conflating play and game. This study claims that play is an important consideration in any discussion of the postmodern (as it is in any discussion of literature), but game is also useful because of its structuring influence. Game provides limits, boundaries, and borders to play, thereby both limiting and, paradoxically, enabling meaningful play. This study does not claim that literature is a game in the strong sense, it chooses instead to concentrate on the gamelike shape - the «gamefulness» - that literary postmodernism assumes. After theoretical chapters that discuss postmodernism, play, and game, this study moves to critical discussions of the work of two prominent contemporary American authors, John Barth and Louise Erdrich. |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-3 de 25
Página 77
... things like caterpillars " ( 290 ) . He will only believe in , or accept stories about , things with which he is already familiar : the blue cow from the Koran and the steamship , if it is described not as a technological marvel , but ...
... things like caterpillars " ( 290 ) . He will only believe in , or accept stories about , things with which he is already familiar : the blue cow from the Koran and the steamship , if it is described not as a technological marvel , but ...
Página 83
... things and we ain't . They do things and we can't . It's just like living in jail . Half the time I feel like I'm on the outside of the world peeping in through a knot - hole in the fence .... Why don't they let us fly planes and run ...
... things and we ain't . They do things and we can't . It's just like living in jail . Half the time I feel like I'm on the outside of the world peeping in through a knot - hole in the fence .... Why don't they let us fly planes and run ...
Página 121
... things at once . First is the certain knowledge of controversy , the awareness that people all over the country were upset , or even angered , by the fact that the Gallery would buy the painting hanging there on the wall . Second , and ...
... things at once . First is the certain knowledge of controversy , the awareness that people all over the country were upset , or even angered , by the fact that the Gallery would buy the painting hanging there on the wall . Second , and ...
Contenido
Introduction | 1 |
Play Game Rule Convention and Other Ludic | 29 |
John Barth Becoming Somebody | 63 |
Derechos de autor | |
Otras 4 secciones no mostradas
Términos y frases comunes
activity adventures aesthetics American appears archive audience Barth's novel baseball Baudrillard becomes begins boundaries Caillois canoe canoeists chapter chess Chippewa claims concept constitutive rules constructed context conventions Coover culture defined definition discourse discussion Erdrich's fact Father Damien fiction film Forrest Gump frame story Fredric Jameson Friday Book game-like Groos Gump Halliburton's hand Horr vol Huizinga Hutcheon's hypertext iambic pentameter imagination important Indian instance intertextual Jameson John Barth Joshua Slocum kind land language Last Voyage least limits literary postmodernism Louise Erdrich McCaffery McHale metafiction modernism Nanapush narrative narrator Natural Born Killers Newman notes Ojibwa paddling particular Pauline Pinocchio play a game playful Poe's postmodernist postmodernist literature postmodernist novel precisely reader reading realism reality references Sailor Scheherazade self-reflexive sense Simon Sindbad the Porter Slocum sonnet Spariosu storytelling structure techniques television tell theories Thiher Tracks traditional Trans Voice of Fire Wilson words writes York
Referencias a este libro
Legitimationsstrategien der Mythosrezeption - Thomas Mann, Christa Wolf ... Thorsten Wilhelmy Vista previa limitada - 2004 |
The New Orientalists: Postmodern Representations of Islam from Foucault to ... Ian Almond Sin vista previa disponible - 2007 |