Class#14.pptVIP

Class #14 Literary Criticism Postmodern Fiction Postmodernist representation Re-presenting the past Postmodernist Representation Anti-realism “ . . . Many postmodern strategies are openly premised on a challenge to the realist notion of representation that presumes the transparency of the medium and thus the direct and natural link between sign and referent or between words and world” (Hutcheon, Politics, 34). Postmodernist Representation Exhaustion and replenishment “Literature itself had been ‘exhausted,’ as Barth argued . . . . The great plots