Hypermodernism

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  Succeeding Postmodernism

  Language and Humanism in Contemporary American Literature

  • Mary K. Holland(Author)
  • 2013(Publication Date)
  • Bloomsbury Academic

    (Publisher)

  Introduction: Writing Postmodern Humanism There is the irony that, in a sense, we are all humanists. We experience the world as humanists, but this is not necessarily the way we theorize. Madan Sarup 1 In an intellectual climate of hyperperiodization, Benjamin’s alarm clock resolutely ringing, it should come as no surprise that millennial arrival set off a clamoring about new ends and beginnings in theory and literature. A decade in and the twenty-first century does not disappoint: critics and theorists from feminist to political to comic, and certainly including literary, are declaring the end of postmodernism, and beginning, with however mountainous qualifications, to consider what is coming next. 2 The sheer volume of prose devoted to such a position indicates that something significant indeed is changing in art, culture, theory, and literature. And literature—no longer satisfied with reproducing the disaffected irony and language games that long caused readers to characterize postmodern literature as heartless and meaningless—makes its own vehement demand to be read and understood differently

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  Cultural Studies

  Theory and Practice

  • Chris Barker, Emma A. Jane(Authors)
  • 2016(Publication Date)
  • SAGE Publications Ltd

    (Publisher)

  6 Enter Postmodernism

  Key Concepts

  • Enlightenment
  • Grand narrative
  • Hyperreality
  • Irony
  • Modernism
  • Modernity
  • Postmodernism
  • Postmodernity
  • Post-postmodernism
  • Reflexivity

  The proliferation of books on the subject of postmodernism is not simply an academic fashion. It is also a significant response to substantive changes in the organization and enactment of our social worlds. In other words, there are material grounds for taking these debates seriously. Much of the primary theoretical work on postmodernism has been produced by writers with no direct affiliation to cultural studies as a ‘discipline’. Nevertheless, the debates and conceptual maps that developed as postmodernism emerged have been filtered into cultural studies. They form the context in which contemporary cultural studies has been developing and permeate the ‘sites’ of cultural studies investigations (Chapters 7 –14 ). The postmodern influence in cultural studies underscores a certain break with its Marxist legacy.

  Defining the Terms

  Postmodern theory makes little sense outside of the associated concepts of modernity and modernism. Unfortunately, there is no consensus about what the pertinent concepts mean. For our purposes here:

  Modernity and postmodernity are terms that refer to historical and sociological configurations. Modernism and postmodernism are cultural and epistemological concepts.

  In particular, the concepts of modernism and postmodernism concern:

  • cultural formations and cultural experience, for example, modernism as the cultural experience of modernity and postmodernism as a cultural sensibility associated with high or post-modernity;
  • artistic and architectural styles and movements, that is, modernism as a style of architecture (Le Corbusier) or writing (James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Bertolt Brecht) and postmodernism in film (Blue Velvet, Blade Runner

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  Defining Literary Postmodernism for the Twenty-First Century

  • Matthias Stephan(Author)
  • 2019(Publication Date)
  • Palgrave Macmillan

    (Publisher)

  postmodernism (on the right).

  The modernist list is, to a certain degree, coherent, and harkens back to definitions of modernism as a form of literature which attempt to find new rules and ways of mimetically representing an existing, yet shifting, world. Modernist writers can be described as those authors who have developed and worked with new forms, new styles, which disrupt contemporary artistic practices and discourse. Prominent in descriptions of modernism lies the avant-garde, the various movements of which (especially in the early parts of the twentieth century) attempted to ‘make it new’ not only with new forms and styles, but also exploring untapped subject matter, matter deemed either inappropriate, taboo, or simply beneath notions of artistic expression. Modernist experiments are often seen as looking for new ways to recover the lost order in the wake of skepticism related to previous grand narratives like religion and other cultural myths of the past, but function fundamentally with the same structure, one which uses the lack of the narrative as the vantage point to justify its recovery. Hassan’s

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