The Gamefulness of American Postmodernism: John Barth & Louise ErdrichP. Lang, 2000 - 176 стор. This book examines the twin problems of play and game in American literary postmodernism. There have been many studies of the function of play in postmodernism, but very few have discussed the role of game without conflating play and game. This study claims that play is an important consideration in any discussion of the postmodern (as it is in any discussion of literature), but game is also useful because of its structuring influence. Game provides limits, boundaries, and borders to play, thereby both limiting and, paradoxically, enabling meaningful play. This study does not claim that literature is a game in the strong sense, it chooses instead to concentrate on the gamelike shape - the «gamefulness» - that literary postmodernism assumes. After theoretical chapters that discuss postmodernism, play, and game, this study moves to critical discussions of the work of two prominent contemporary American authors, John Barth and Louise Erdrich. |
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... argument in aesthetics that it is not the picture that makes art art , but the frame and the frame's implicit message ... argue that structure is provided in American literary postmodernism by game and gamefulness . On reflection , in ...
... argument in aesthetics that it is not the picture that makes art art , but the frame and the frame's implicit message ... argue that structure is provided in American literary postmodernism by game and gamefulness . On reflection , in ...
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... argue that perhaps the most important terms in the various discourses that constitute postmodernism are “ boundary ” and “ border , ” terms that appear frequently in postmodernism as themes , as strategies , as obsessions . My proposal ...
... argue that perhaps the most important terms in the various discourses that constitute postmodernism are “ boundary ” and “ border , ” terms that appear frequently in postmodernism as themes , as strategies , as obsessions . My proposal ...
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... argues ( if it can be said to " argue " anything ) that although Western literature may have drawn inspiration from stories like The Thousand Nights and a Night , modifying those stories for its own uses , real maturation involves ...
... argues ( if it can be said to " argue " anything ) that although Western literature may have drawn inspiration from stories like The Thousand Nights and a Night , modifying those stories for its own uses , real maturation involves ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Play Game Rule Convention and Other Ludic | 29 |
John Barth Becoming Somebody | 63 |
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activity adventures aesthetics American appears archive audience Barth's novel baseball Baudrillard becomes begins boundaries Caillois canoe canoeists chapter chess Chippewa claims concept constitutive rules constructed context conventions Coover culture defined definition discourse discussion Erdrich's fact Father Damien fiction film Forrest Gump frame story Fredric Jameson Friday Book game-like Groos Gump Halliburton's hand Horr vol Huizinga Hutcheon's hypertext iambic pentameter imagination important Indian instance intertextual Jameson John Barth Joshua Slocum kind land language Last Voyage least limits literary postmodernism Louise Erdrich McCaffery McHale metafiction modernism Nanapush narrative narrator Natural Born Killers Newman notes Ojibwa paddling particular Pauline Pinocchio play a game playful Poe's postmodernist postmodernist literature postmodernist novel precisely reader reading realism reality references Sailor Scheherazade self-reflexive sense Simon Sindbad the Porter Slocum sonnet Spariosu storytelling structure techniques television tell theories Thiher Tracks traditional Trans Voice of Fire Wilson words writes York
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