Memorious Discourse: Reprise and Representation in PostmodernismThis book zeroes in on postmodern representation, which the author defines (with a wink at Borges's Funes the Memorious) as memorious discourse. This wide-ranging discussion of contemporary writers and theorists from Nabokov and DeLillo to Levinas and Derrida argues that postmodern representation remembers and recycles former representations, and draws a picture that latches onto other pictures to bring its object to life. Memorious Discourse identifies five areas in recent theory and fiction where the problems of postmodern representation come to light forcefully: the postmodern memoir and personal literature broadly, the use of names, the posthuman, the issue of reality and the complex bearings of postmodern ontology and the sublime's revival. Christian Moraru is Associate Professor of English at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. |
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... possible - worlds fictional semantics , the unrepresentable repeals the one - world model of dogmatic mi- metic doctrine to bring forth possibilities : ontological possibilities , possibilities of being , of projecting " nonactualized ...
... possible - worlds fictional semantics , the unrepresentable repeals the one - world model of dogmatic mi- metic doctrine to bring forth possibilities : ontological possibilities , possibilities of being , of projecting " nonactualized ...
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... possible transformation a temporal configuration of events that mark the passage of one articulated state of affairs into a significantly different one which when it engages the desires and fears of an experiencing subject represents ...
... possible transformation a temporal configuration of events that mark the passage of one articulated state of affairs into a significantly different one which when it engages the desires and fears of an experiencing subject represents ...
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... possible states of affairs " ( 1998 , 16 ) . As the critic exempli- fies , Hamlet is not a person from the " actual world , " but Hamlet , a fictional world , makes him possible in ours . Hamlet is a “ transworld identity " ( 17 ) whose ...
... possible states of affairs " ( 1998 , 16 ) . As the critic exempli- fies , Hamlet is not a person from the " actual world , " but Hamlet , a fictional world , makes him possible in ours . Hamlet is a “ transworld identity " ( 17 ) whose ...
Contents
Preface | 9 |
Postmodern Representation Cultural Politics | 15 |
Time Representation and Postmodern Memory | 40 |
Copyright | |
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