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Nostalgic Postmodernism

Name: Nostalgic Postmodernism
Brand: Editions Rodopi B.V.
SKU: 9789042012974
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The Victorian Tradition and the Contemporary British Novel

Autor: Christian Gutleben

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Why do so many contemporary British novels revert to the Victorian tradition in order to find a new...

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Autor

Christian Gutleben

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2002

Pagini

248

EAN

9789042012974

ISBN

9789042012974

Enbook ID

09011923

Editura

Editions Rodopi B.V.

Greutate

434

Dimensiuni

150 x 219 x 17

Descriere completă

Why do so many contemporary British novels revert to the Victorian tradition in order to find a new source of inspiration? What does it mean from an ideological point of view to build a modern form of art by resurrecting and recycling an art of the past? From a formal point of view what are the aesthetic priorities established by these postmodernist novels? Those are the main questions tackled by this study intended for anybody interested in the aesthetic and ideological evolution of very recent fiction. What this analysis ultimately proposes is a reevaluation and a redefinition of postmodernism such as it is illustrated by the British novels which paradoxically both praise and mock, honour and debunk, imitate and subvert their Victorian models. Unashamedly opportunistic and deliberately exploiting the spirit of the time, this late form of postmodernism cannibalizes and reshapes not only Victorianism but all the other previous aesthetic movements - including early postmodernism.