Review article
A Poetics And A Critique Of A Postmodernist Literary Work: Susan Sontag’s and Leslie Fiedler’s Essays as Manifestoes of Postmodernism in Literature
Minja Arslanagić - Tutić
; Sarajevo
Abstract
A postmodern epoch has become so widespread and complex since its beginning that it is almost impossible to crystallize what it is, and what it isn’t. This is also true of postmodernist literature, which has turned into an elitist cultural practice, hardly accessible to an average reader. Therefore, the article looks at a postmodernist work of literature through the prism of principal questions in literary criticism – what constitutes a work of literature and how it should be read and evaluated. It also examines the meaning of postmodernism in literature in the light of the essays by Susan Sontag and Leslie Fiedler which have often been read as its proclamations.
Keywords
postmodernism; postmodernist literature; poetics; mimesis; interpretation; reality; representation
Hrčak ID:
260720
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Publication date:
22.7.2021.
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