Symbolic signification creates an indirect evaluation of the world;reflection is an explanatory activity that problematizes the world. Bothare activities of consciousness and interrelate in the production ofmeaning or the rejection of meaning. In order to...[继续阅读]

    The narrative of the decline or supersession of modernism is perhapsleast clear,but no less pervasive,in literary studies. This is in inverseproportion to the influence which is wielded by literature and literarycriticism in the academy,and there may be a...[继续阅读]

    The following,according to an order published at the end of theseventeenth century,were the measures to be taken when the plagueappeared in a town.First,a strict spatial partitioning: the closing of the town and itsoutlying districts,a prohibition to leav...[继续阅读]

    Over the last two decades "postmodernism" has become a concept tobe wrestled with,and such a battleground of conflicting opinions andpolitical forces that it can no longer be ignored. "The culture of theadvanced capitalist societist," announce the editors...[继续阅读]

    In Steven Connors view,postmodernism can be understood best as a complexsimultaneity,a coincidence of different lines of development,in architecture,art,literature,film,popular culture and so on. He tried to produce a sort of guidebook to the different ki...[继续阅读]

    The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Changediscussed the origin of transforming capitalist culture from modernity to postmodernism in thelate 20th century,that is,from large-scale assembly line production to small-scale ...[继续阅读]

    Jean-Francois LyotardJean-Francois Lyotard(1924—1998) was a French philosopher and leading figure in theintellectual movement known as postmodernism. He was born in Versailles. He went toprimary school at the Paris Lycées Buffon and Louis-le-Grand and lat...[继续阅读]

    1. What is the authors opinion about "events"?2. What is the new "historicity" in postmodernist novels?3. Whats the authors opinion about parody?4. What is the function of intertextuality?5. How does the historiographic metafiction rewrite history?...[继续阅读]

    Narrativism and Intellectual HistoryWhite had put narrativism in the postmodern mode on the historicalagenda. Some historians would agree with Nancy Partner that his impacton historians has been negligible. However,that assessment has to bequalified. The ...[继续阅读]

    1. Do you agree that "the represented world of fiction is actually far less natural"?2. What is the effect of metafiction?3. Why do postmodern fictions appear to be absurd and illogical?4. How is "self-consciousness" presented in postmodern fictions?5. Ho...[继续阅读]