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När var postmodernismen?
Den postmoderna epoken inom litteraturen kan sägas ha sin början någonstans i mitten av 1900-talet med författare som Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita 1955). Den amerikanske författaren Thomas Pynchon anses vara en central representant för postmodernistisk litteratur.
Varifrån kommer ordet modern?
Själva termen modern kommer från latinets modernus och betyder ordagrant ”just nu”. Det första belägget för ordets användning är från 400-talet då det avsåg att klargöra skillnaden mellan hedendom och kristendom.
What is postmodernism According to William Jameson?
Jameson’s other book Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism is an analysis of the late 20th-century movement postmodernism through the dialectical approach. Jameson argued that postmodernist cultures are formed through mass culture. It is a capitalist phenomenon that forces our ideologies to be shaped.
What is Jameson’s main idea in the book History?
Jameson’s focal idea in the book is that history serves as the “ultimate horizon” for the analysis of literary texts. Jameson’s other book Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism is an analysis of the late 20th-century movement postmodernism through the dialectical approach.
What is postmodern about the past?
In the postmodern, then, the past itself has disappeared (along with the well-known ”sense of the past” or historicity and collective memory). Where its buildings still remain, renovation and restoration allow them to be transferred to the present in their entirety as those other, very different and postmodern things called simulacra .
What is the problem of postmodernism?
The problem of Postmodernism – how its fundamental characteristics are to be described, whether it even exists in the first place, whether the very concept is of any use, or is, on the contrary, a mystification — this problem is at one and the same time an aesthetic and a political one.