Literary history, modernism, and postmodernism /

In these lectures, delivered at Harvard University in March 1983, the differences between Modernism and Postmodernism are discussed in semiotic terms, based on a contrastive analysis of semantic and syntactical (compositional) features. They present the major results of research into the literary co...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Fokkema, Douwe Wessel, 1931-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Amsterdam : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1984.
Series:Harvard University Erasmus lectures ; spring 1983.
Utrecht publications in general and comparative literature ; v. 19.
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  • LITERARY HISTORY, MODERNISM, AND POSTMODERNISM; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; I. Literary History from an International Point of View; II. Modernist Hypotheses: Literary Conventions in Gide, Larbaud, Thomas Mann, Ter Braak, and Du Perron; III. Postmodernist Impossibilities: Literary Conventions in Borges, Barthelme, Robbe-Grillet, Hermans, and others; Notes