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Redefining postmodernism: Contemporary feminist fiction and persistent myths of modernism.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Redefining postmodernism: Contemporary feminist fiction and persistent myths of modernism./
Author:	Pitchford, Nicola.
Description:	223 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 55-08, Section: A, page: 2385.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International55-08A.
Subject:	Literature, American. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9432116

Redefining postmodernism: Contemporary feminist fiction and persistent myths of modernism.
Pitchford, Nicola.

Redefining postmodernism: Contemporary feminist fiction and persistent myths of modernism. - 223 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 55-08, Section: A, page: 2385.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1994.

This study addresses the politics of postmodernist novels by women, by investigating the theoretical frameworks developed for reading postmodernism. The question of how texts act politically on their readers forms the core of the postmodernism debates, as it did of arguments for and against modernism. Pessimistic assessments of postmodernism's social value such as Fredric Jameson's retain modernist theory's assumption that critical art depends on distance from mass culture.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Literature, American.

Redefining postmodernism: Contemporary feminist fiction and persistent myths of modernism.
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500 $a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 55-08, Section: A, page: 2385.
500 $a Supervisor: Dale M. Bauer.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1994.
520 $a This study addresses the politics of postmodernist novels by women, by investigating the theoretical frameworks developed for reading postmodernism. The question of how texts act politically on their readers forms the core of the postmodernism debates, as it did of arguments for and against modernism. Pessimistic assessments of postmodernism's social value such as Fredric Jameson's retain modernist theory's assumption that critical art depends on distance from mass culture.
520 $a Such assumptions are evident, for example, in the gendered rhetoric of early modernist rejections of Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons; they also persist into contemporary theory. Given the unprecedented ability of postmodern capitalism to co- opt any image or discourse, resistant art now appears impossible.
520 $a However, postmodern feminist texts' engagement with contemporary rhetorical contexts suggests that even co-opted rhetoric can be used strategically by specific groups of readers toward local goals. Redefining postmodernism through historicized readings of feminist fiction would offer a more hopeful vision of the transformative potential of contemporary culture than most current definitions afford.
520 $a Drawing on historical materials from Britain and the US, and on Marxist criticism, poststructuralist feminism, and cultural studies, I analyze the strategic redeployment of existing texts in the novels of two exemplary feminist postmodernists, Kathy Acker and Angela Carter. Acker pits the rhetorical strategies of My Life My Death by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Don Quixote, and Empire of the Senseless against the dominant rhetoric of the Reagan 1980s. Carter's Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman, Passion of New Eve, and Love intervene in Britain's 1970s crisis of political imagination.
520 $a Both Acker and Carter have been criticized as "pornographers" by some feminists. Understood historically, however, their model of subversive rereading challenges the same growing ability of capitalism to commodify oppositional rhetoric that sparked antipornography feminism. A postmodern theory of reading as active use, of the varied ends to which representations can be employed by specific groups of readers, may also help feminism move beyond divisive debates over sexual representations.
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