The Paradoxical Status of Knowledge in American Postmodern Fiction

Salwa KAROUİ-ELOUNELLİ

Makale detayları

The Paradoxical Status of Knowledge in American Postmodern Fiction

Yazarlar:

Salwa KAROUİ-ELOUNELLİ

Yayıncı:

American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Dergi:

Journal of American Studies of Turkey 2010 Issue 31, pp.57-78

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

3/2010

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000734583

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

pISSN:

1300-6606

Özet:

 

The question that the present work addresses is related to the  paradoxical investment and questioning of knowledge in the American  experimental fiction since the second half of the twentieth century. The  thematic importance assigned in American postmodern fiction to the  examination of language games that inform the narrativity of literary and  informational or scientific texts, is linked to a critical exploration of the  discursive articulations of knowledge. Such interest in the textuality and  textualization of knowledge does not, however, bind postmodern fiction  with a purely epistemological perspective. Actually, part of the paradoxes  that inform the poetics of postmodern fiction are related to its tendency to  situate its critique of the notion of knowledge within the arena of aesthetics,  mainly because its major concern is with the status that knowledge acquires  when appropriated by literary narrativity and the ways such appropriation  affects the aesthetics of fiction.

Makale detayları

The Paradoxical Status of Knowledge in American Postmodern Fiction

Yazarlar: Salwa KAROUİ-ELOUNELLİ

Yayıncı: American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Dergi: Journal of American Studies of Turkey 2010 Issue 31, pp.57-78

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 3/2010

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000734583

Sıklık: İki Yıllık

pISSN: 1300-6606

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Salwa KAROUİ-ELOUNELLİ

Yayıncı:

American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Dergi:

Journal of American Studies of Turkey 2010 Issue 31, pp.57-78

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

3/2010

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000734583

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

pISSN:

1300-6606