“Postmodernism”
A challenge for literary history Joris Vlasselaers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20156396 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joris Vlasselaers (KU Leuven, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 259-270 |
| Publication date | 1988-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Literary Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0256-4718 • E-ISSN: 1753-5387 |
| Publisher | Unisa Press (PUBLISHER • ZA) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02564718808529872 |
| OpenAlex | W2032643723 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 26 |
This article questions the usefulness of the term and concept “postmodernism” in comparative literature and literary historiography. It reflects upon the possibilities of a struc‐tural‐semiotic approach relying on the Peircean tryadic sign‐model to counter the problem of the vague and inclusive character of both term and concept in different cultural situations and environments. A model for the analysis of the global communicational situation is suggested, in order to realize an integration of the literary discourse into the encompassing social discourse and the registration of the “period‐code‐consciousness” which enables and orientates the discussion of contemporaneous data, views, sensibilities and conventions in their specific contexts. Such a broad and penetrating scanning and analysis must rely upon strongly interdisciplinary research
Aesthetics · Art · Consciousness · Epistemology · Historiography · Linguistics · Literature · Postmodernism · Semiotics · Sociology · Computer Science · Digital Humanities and Scholarship · European Cultural and National Identity · History · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy
A Theory of Semiotics
The social construction of reality
From the Social Construction of Reality
Le discours social
The Question of Postmodernism
Peirce, Frege, la vérité, le tiers inclus et le champ pratiqué
Semiotics or history
Semiotics and history
On writing histories of literature. Some remarks from a constructivist point of view
Towards an Interpretation of semiotics and history
Postmodernity and criticism
Problems of interdisciplinary theory-formation in the social history of literature
The body versus the printing press
The theory of history, literary history and historiography
History of Literature, Fragment of a Vanished Totality
Making Sense
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |