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Peter Ackroyd Hawksmoor (1985)

Peter Ackroyd Hawksmoor (1985). Postmodernism. Historiographic metafiction. coined by literary theorist Linda Hutcheon (defined in "A Poetics of Postmodernism„) works both intensely self-reflexive and yet paradoxically also laying claim to historical events and personages.

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Peter Ackroyd Hawksmoor (1985)

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  1. Peter Ackroyd Hawksmoor (1985) Postmodernism

  2. Historiographic metafiction • coined by literary theorist Linda Hutcheon (defined in "A Poetics of Postmodernism„) • works both intensely self-reflexive and yet paradoxically also laying claim to historical events and personages. • Historiographic metafiction is a quintessentially postmodern art form • a reliance upon textual play, parody and historical re-conceptualization

  3. Historiographic quality • Sir Christopher Wren(1632 –1723)(e.g. St Paul’s Cathedral) → real figure → architect • Nicholas Hawksmoor(1661 –1736) → real figure → architect → fictitious character → detective/20th century plot of Hawksmoor • Nicholas Dyer → fictitious character → architect → personifying Nicholas Hawksmoor the actual architect of, for instance, Christ Church in Spitalfields, London

  4. Christ Church, Spitalfields, London(1714-1729)designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor

  5. Fredric Jameson in Postmodernism, Or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism(1991) Postmodernism [. . .] ceaselessly reshuffles the fragments of preexistent texts, the building blocks of older cultural and social production, in some new and heightened bricolage: metabooks which cannibalize other books, metatexts which collate bits of other texts-such is the logic of postmodernism in general. (96)

  6. MODERNISM Romanticism/Symbolism Form (conjunctive, closed) Purpose Design Hierarchy Mastery/Logos Art Object/Finished Work Distance Creation/Totalisation Synthesis Presence Centering Genre/Boundary Semantics Paradigm Hypotaxis POSTMODERNISM Pataphysics/Dadaism Antiform (disjunctive, open) Play Chance Anarchy Exhaustion/Silence Process/Performance/Happening Participation Decreation/Deconstruction Antithesis Absence Dispersal Text/Intertext Rhetoric Syntagm Parataxis Ihab Hassan, “Toward a Concept of Postmodernism” (in The Postmodern Turn; 1987)

  7. MODERNISM Metaphor Selection Root/Depth Interpretation/Reading Signified Lisible (Readerly) ~ Roland Barthes Narrative/Grande Histoire Master Code Symptom Type Genital/Phallic Paranoia Origin/Cause God the Father Metaphysics Determinancy Transcendence POSTMODERNISM Metonymy Combination Rhizome/Surface Against Interpretation/Misreading Signifier Scriptible (Writerly) ~ Roland Barthes Anti-narrative/Petite Histoire Idiolect Desire Mutant Polymorphous/Androgynous Schizophrenia Difference-Différance/Trace~ Jacques Derrida The Holy Ghost Irony Indeterminancy Immanence Ihab Hassan, “Toward a Concept of Postmodernism” (in The Postmodern Turn; 1987)

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