Modernity, Postmodernity, and Transgression in Sábato's Esthetics: Poetic Dissemination, Defeat of Utopias, Returning Bodies
After defining the problematic term "Postmodernity" and its possible application to Latin America, the position of Ernesto Sábato as an essayist and narrator is discussed in light of Modernity (questioned by him as the rationalist and enlightened canon, but applauded as romantic and surrealistic rebellion), and Postmodernity with which it connects from diverse axis: the poetic of desire and that of transgression (vanguard movements related to Foucault, Bataille and Derrida), the theory of reality as "fragment" and "simulacrum" and the suppression of oppositions in the paroxysm of "symbolic exc... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2005 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, Vol 29, Iss 1 (2005) |
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New Prairie Press
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Schlagwörter: | German literature / PT1-4897 / French literature - Italian literature - Spanish literature - Portuguese literature / PQ1-3999 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-29235628 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.4148/2334-4415.1595 |