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Postmortem Postmodernists - The Afterlife of the Author in Recent Narrative (Hardcover)
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Postmortem Postmodernists - The Afterlife of the Author in Recent Narrative (Hardcover)
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This book scrutinizes the genre of the author-as-character with
respect to three broad issues-authorship, the posthumous, and
cultural revisionism-that arise in reading such works from a
contemporary perspective. Late twentieth-century fiction
'postmodernizes' romantic and modern authors not only to understand
them better, but also to understand itself in relation to a past
(literary tradition, aesthetic paradigms, cultural formations,
etc.) that has not really passed. Penelope Fitzgerald's 'The Blue
Flower', Peter Ackroyd's 'The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde and
Chatterton', Peter Carey's 'Jack Maggs', Michael Cunningham's 'The
Hours', Colm Toibin's 'The Master', and Geoff Dyer's 'Out of Sheer
Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence - 'the mighty dead' (Harold
Bloom) are brought back to life, reanimated and bodied forth in new
textual bodies that project a postmodern understanding of the
author as a historically and culturally contingent subjectivity
constructed along the lines of gender, sexual orientation, class,
and nationality.
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