Rethinking Postmodernism(s)

Charles S. Peirce and the Pragmatist Negotiations of Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, and Jonathan Safran Foer

• Author(s): Katrin Amian,
• Publisher: Rodopi
• Pages: 239
• ISBN_13: 9789042024151
  ISBN_10: 9042024151
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / General , Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / American / General , Literary Criticism / American / African American & Black , Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory , Philosophy / Movements / Pragmatism , Political Science / General , Social Science / General , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Social Science / Popular Culture , Social Science / Sociology / General ,

Description:... Rethinking Postmodernism(s) revisits three historical sites of American literary postmodernism: the early postmodernism of Thomas Pynchon's V. (1961), the emancipatory postmodernism of Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987), and the late or post-postmodernism of Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated (2002). For the first time, it confronts these texts with the pragmatist philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce, staging a conceptual dialogue between pragmatism and postmodernism that historicizes and recontextualizes customary readings of postmodern fiction. The book is a must-read for all interested in current reassessments of literary postmodernism, in new critical dialogues between seminal postmodern texts, and in recent attempts to theorize the 'post-postmodern' moment.