University of toronto quarterly, volume 61, number 1, fall 1991, pp. This is the historiographic componenta concern with the logic, limitations. A poetics of postmodernism a poetics of postmodernism history, theory fiction linda hutcheon new york and london first published 1988 by routledge 11 new fetter lane, london ec4p 4ee simultaneously published in the usa and canada by routledge 29 west 35th street, new york. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read the politics of postmodernism. But a poetics of postmodernism has a broader focus and will almost certainly become my goto text for hutcheon references in future. Postmodernism developed in the mid to latetwentieth century across philosophy, the arts, architecture, and criticism as a departure or rejection of modernism. Constructing postmodernism with incredulity to metanarrative. Linda hutcheon s theory of parody and its application to postmodern music violetta kostka akademia muzyczna im.
Historiographic metafiction is one kind of postmodern novel which rejects projecting present beliefs and standards onto the past and asserts the specificity and particularity of the individual past event. May 12, 1988 i absolutely love both of hutcheon s books ive read so far, in fact i keep returning to a theory of parody throughout my own work. It continues the project of linda hutcheon s narcissistic narrative and a theory of parody in studying formal selfconsciousness in art, but adds to this both an historical and an ideological dimension. Google scholar jameson, fredric 1983 postmodernism and consumer society, in foster, hal ed. Digital rights management drm the publisher has supplied this book in encrypted form, which means that you need to install free software in order to unlock and read it. Historians, like novelists, are said to be interested not in recounting the facts, but in recounting that they are recounting them. Discusses some of canadas most famous authors of recent years, including audrey thomas, michael ondaatje, robert kroetsch, margaret atwood, timothy findley, jack hodgins, aritha van herk, leonard cohen, susan swan, clark blaise, george bowering. Linda hutcheon s latest book belongs to the latter group. She is a university professor emeritus in the department of english and of the centre for comparative literature at the university of toronto, where she has taught since 1988. Linda hutcheon feminism and postmodernism i would like to begin today by outlining briefly the particular conjunction of the personal and the professional that has led to my interest in the overlap or interaction of feminism and postmodernism. Postmodernism manifests itself in many fields of cultural endeavor architecture, literature, photography, film, painting, video, dance, music. Relevant quotations from especially regarding historical metafiction.
It continues the project of hutcheons narcissistic narrative and a theory of parody in studying formal selfconsciousness in art, but adds to this both a historical and ideological dimension. Hutcheon a poetics of postmodernism jameson postmodernism, or, the cultural logic of latecapitalism jameson. Postmodern afterthoughts linda hutcheon what was postmodernism. She takes a positive approach, attributing ideas to the complex construction of the term to help build a more complex and involuted understanding of postmodernism. Postmodernism is a school of thought or a movement that took place after world war ii, but it gained popularity in the 1960s and 1970s. It continues the project of linda hutcheon s narcissistic narrative and a theory of parody in studying formal. According to hutcheon, in a poetics of postmodernism, works of historiographic metafiction are those wellknown and popular novels which are both intensely selfreflexive and yet paradoxically also lay claim to historical events and personages. Read a poetics of postmodernism history, theory, fiction by linda hutcheon available from rakuten kobo. Her extensive writings, both on postmodernity and feminism, provide lucid and succinct analyses of the most slippery of topics parody, irony, aesthetics and do not stop there. Carrying on with the venture all started within the poetics of postmodernism, linda hutcheon makes a speciality of the politics of illustration. The reason behind the difficulty in defining the term is its enormous complexity and the daunting multiplicity of views about its meaning, scope and implications. Routledge, 1988 321 17 pages available electronically through sub.
This revised edition of the politics of postmodernism continues its position as essential reading. Oct 24, 2014 linda hutcheon, born august 24, 1947 is a canadian academic working in the fields of literary theory and criticism, opera, and canadian studies. Always a key work, the politics of postmodernism in this second edition is simply essential reading. Linda hutcheon limiting the postmodern essay example. Review of a poetics of postmodernism email protected jan 1, 1991. The canadian postmodern linda hutcheon oxford university. Working through the issue of representation in art forms from fiction to photography, linda hutcheon sets out postmodernisms highly political challenge to the dominant ideologies of the western world.
Modernism, postmodernism, and metamodernism international. On the art of adaptation daedalus mit press journals. The pastime of past time a poetics of postmodernism linda hutcheon she is a canadian academic. But we should always keep in mind that to have fun with. The teachings of twentiethcentury art forms, london and new york, methuen. Linda hutcheon limiting the postmodern essay sample limiting the postmodern. The canadian postmodern a study of contemporary canadian fiction edited by linda hutcheon. These are the novels that linda hutcheon, in her groundbreaking book a poetics of postmodernism 1988. Postmodernism, says hans bertens, is an exasperating term. Thomass the white hotel is a clear example of what linda hutcheon calls historiographic metafiction in a poetics of postmodernism 1988, martin amiss times arrow does not fit equally well into this category since it does not engage in larger questions concerning the representation of. According to linda hutcheon, one of the main features that distinguishes postmodernism from modernism is the fact the it takes the form of selfconscious.
Linda hutcheon, one of the most respected and renown of canadas theorists, has long been known to dismiss this proclivity with an easy shrug of the shoulders. The metafictional paradox 1980, the politics of postmodernism 1989, and a poetics of postmodernism. Adaptation, hutcheon argues, has always been a central mode of the storytelling imagination and deserves to be studied in all its breadth and range as both a. Now, linda hutcheon, almost directly opposing jameson, takes the stage. Pdf the historiographic metafictional writing of power and the. Pdf linda hutcheona poetics of postmodernism history. Parody and history linda hutcheon that postmodern theses have deep roots in the present human conditions is confirmed today in the document on architecture issued by the polish union solidarity.
History, theory, fiction linda hutcheon neither a defense nor a denunciation of the postmodern, it continues hutcheon s previous projects in studying formal selfconsciousness in art, but adds to this both a historical and ideological dimension. Linda hutcheon limiting the postmodern essay sample. History, theory, fiction by linda hutcheon new york. Linda hutcheon, a fellow of the american academy since 2003, is professor of english and comparative literature at the university of toronto.
Her theoretical works include narcissistic narrative. Because people do not talk about this element of active attribution, the politics of both. Linda hutcheon holds the rank of university professor emeritus of english and comparative literature at the university of toronto. One might call it a politics rather than the politics of postmodernism, because hutcheon s stance is recognizably her own, and differs from the varied, mostly neomarxist, philosophical and politicalagendas represented in thecollectionsedited by andrew ross, jonathan arac, and hal. A new epilogue traces the fate of the postmodern over the last ten years and into the future. And as the twentieth century came to an end, he was likely not alone in wondering what had happened to the buzzword of the last decades of the twentieth century. Postmodernism is often used alternatively with poststructuralist as astwo perspectives from whichtoview thehistory of modern literary andculturalcriticism habib 2011.
According to linda hutcheon, one of the main features that distinguishes postmodernism from modernism is the fact the it. The term is closely associated with works of postmodern literature, usually novels. The theory and politics of irony and has recently done interdisciplinary work with michael hutcheon on opera and medicine opera. However, hutcheon argues that postmodernism does differ from modernism in important ways and that it is this difference from the modernist project that exemplifies the critical potential of postmodern cultural work. Hutcheon identifies parody as one of the major forms of modern selfreflexivity, one that marks the intersection of invention in this major study of a flexible and multifaceted mode of expression, linda hutcheon looks at works of modern literature, visual art. Her interdisciplinary collaborative work with michael hutcheon on the intersection of medical and cultural history, studied through the vehicle of opera, has yielded articles, book chapters and four completed books thus far.
Linda hutcheon the politics of postmodernism london. A specialist in postmodernist culture and in critical theory, on which she has published 9 books, she has also worked collaboratively in large projects involving hundreds of scholars the multivolumed rethinking literary history, which was awarded a major. Jan 01, 1989 continuing the project begun in the poetics of postmodernism, linda hutcheon focuses on the politics of representation. A new epilogue traces the fate of the postmodern over. Postmodernism is less a period than a poetics or an ideology. Essentially hutcheons argument is that postmodern historiographic metafiction a term she coined is principally concerned with the epistemological status of the past and therefore the present, which is constructed out of the past. Linda hutcheon is professor of english and comparative literature at the university of toronto, canada. Hutcheon, poetics, canadian, politics, then one of the postmodern additions to. A new epilogue traces the fate of the postmodern over the last ten years and into the future, responding to claims that it has, once and for all, failed. Introduction to linda hutcheon, module on postmodernity. The term postmodernism, when used in fiction, should, by. The politics of postmodernism 2nd edition by linda hutcheon. Linda hutcheon a poetics of postmodernism history, theory, fiction 1988.
It continues the project of hutcheon s narcissistic narrative and a theory of parody in studying formal selfconsciousness in art, but adds to this both a historical and ideological dimension. But it was postmodernism that brought the conjunction of irony and nostalgia quite literally into the. Feminism and postmodernism university of toronto tspace. A poetics of postmodernism ebook by linda hutcheon.
Modelled on postmodern architecture, postmodernism is the name given here to current cultural practices. A poetics of postmodernism a poetics of postmodernism history, theory fiction linda hutcheon new york and london first published 1988 by routledge 11 new fetter lane, london. Google scholar jameson, fredric 1983 postmodernism and consumer society, in. Linda hutcheon date 1988 page start 3 page end 21 is part of book title a poetics of postmodernism. Irony and black humor in bukowskis hollywood and pulp. For one, hutcheon points out that postmodern works tends to be critical of modernisms elitist and sometimes almost totalitarian modes of effecting. As david lodge has put it, postmodernism shortcircuitsthe gap between text and world 23940. Historiographic metafiction manages to satisfy such a desire for worldly grounding while at the same time querying the very basis ofthe authority of that grounding. For example, lyotard who is arguably the most oftquoted figure on postmodernism, in postmodern condition.
This text accuses the modern city of being the product of an alliance between bureaucracy and totalitarianism, and. A poetics of postmodernism is neither a defence nor a denunciation of the postmodern. Jun 30, 2002 the politics of postmodernism by linda hutcheon, 9780415280167, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. She is also author of a politics of postmodernism, a theory of parody, and ironys edge 2.
The politics of postmodernism linda hutcheon 1989 studies. History, theory, fiction 1 by hutcheon, linda isbn. Postmodernism is a phenomenon whose mode is resolutely contradictory as well as unavoidably political. The cambridge history of postmodern literature edited by brian mchale march 2016. Intertextuality, parody, and the discourses of history a poetics of postmodernism 124140 16 pages available electronically through sub. Trivia about a theory of parod a poetics of postmodernism. Immodestly referring to aristotles poetics throughout her own recent volume, linda hutcheon sets out to play the postmodernday classicist by defining, classifying, and providing specific examples of postmodern architecture, history, literary theory, and historiographic metafiction. Historiographic metafiction butter major reference. Project muse the politics of postmodernism by linda. According to hutcheon, in a poetics of postmodernism, works of historiographic metafiction are those wellknown and popular novels which are. Linda hutcheon renowned literary scholar linda hutcheon explores the ubiquity of adaptations in all their various media incarnations and challenges their constant critical denigration. Linda hutcheon sets out postmodernism s highly political challenge to the dominant ideologies of the western world. Jul 10, 2014 with the postmodern incredulity to the legitimacy of metanarrative, how should we construct a totalizing, better theory about postmodernism.
A report on knowledge 1984 presents the postmodern condition as one characterized by the breakdown of all. By doing so she intends to prove that the postmodern as. Postmodernism manifests itself in many fields of cultural endeavor architecture, literature, photography, film, painting, video, dance, music, and elsewhere. Linda hutcheon is professor of english and comparative literature at the university of toronto. Together with the new epilogue, this edition contains revised notes on further reading and an updated bibliography. Initially, postmodernism was a mode of discourse on literature and literary criticism, commenting on the nature of literary text, meaning, author and reader, writing and reading.
My current research has been into what i have been calling the poetics of postmodernism, the points at which aesthetic practice and our theoretical discourses philo sophical, literary, historical overlap. The term historiographic metafiction was coined by linda hutcheon in her essay beginning to theorize the postmodern in 1987 and then further developed in her seminal study a poetics of postmodernism 1988 to describe those well. Linda hutcheon, a poetics of postmodernism 1988 and the politics of postmodernism 1989 what i want to call postmodernism is fundamentally contradictory, resolutely historical, and inescapably political. Focusing on this paradoxical concern, this article scrutinizes brian mchales and linda hutcheons different constructions of postmodern poetics with a comparative perspective to expose their respective strong points and drawbacks. Its contradictions may well be those of late capitalist society, but whatever the cause, these contradictions are certainly manifest. Her many books include a poetics of postmodernism, the politics of postmodernism, ironys edge, and. Continuing the project begun in the poetics of postmodernism, linda hutcheon focuses on the politics of representation. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Linda hutcheon on modernism, postmodernism, parody and irony. The politics of postmodernism by linda hutcheon pdf free.
She has published extensively on postmodernism, parody and irony including ironys edge. Linda hutcheon, postmodern fiction, irony, black humor, hollywood, pulp article. According to linda hutcheon, one of the main features that distinguishes postmodernism from modernism is the fact the it takes the form of selfconscious, selfcontradictory, selfundermining statement politics 1. Routledge, 1988 diane long hoeveler english, marquette university milwaukee, wi immodestly referring to aristotles poetics throughout her own recent volume, linda hutcheon sets out to play the postmodernday. Looking at both mass media and high art forms, she challenges the seeming transparency and apparent apolitical innocence of our visual images and verbal stories, asserting that these construct rather than reflect or express our experience of the world. A poetics of postmodernism by hutcheon, linda ebook. It continues the project of linda hutcheon s narcissistic narrative and a theory of parody in studying formal selfconsciousness in art, but adds to this both a historical and an ideological dimension. One way of creating this double or contradictory stance on any statement is the use of parody. A poetics of postmodernism is neither a defense nor a denunciation of the postmodern.