Post-Modernism With Its Self-Contradictory Implications, Its Self-Conscious
Deployment Of Trickery Playfulness And Unexplained Supernaturalism, Its
Questioning Of Universal Truths And Its Penchant For Apocalyptic Content And
Subversive Strategies Seems Too Heady A Brew For Readers To Enjoy. The Present
Volume Isolates The Key Concepts Of Post-Modernism Through Illustrations From
The Works Of John Fowles, Thomas Pynchon, William Golding, Salman Rushdie,
Vladimir Nabakov, Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, Malcolm Lowry, Iris Murdoch,
Gabriel Garcia Marquiz, Mario Vargas Llosa And Isabel Allende. These Concepts
Are Then Placed In A Theoretical Framework With Reference To Critics And
Thinkers Ranging From Roland Barthes, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Terry Eagleton To The
Structuralists And The Post-Structuralists.In Addition,
Book Specifications
ISBN-13 9788171567980
Language English
Binding Hard Bound
Publisher Atlantic Publishers and Distributors Pvt Ltd