The Supernatural in Short Fiction of the Americas: The Other World in the New WorldBloomsbury Academic, 30 aug 2001 - 154 pagina's The continuing cultural encounters of the Americas, between European and indigenous cultures, and between scientific materialism and premodern supernaturalism, have originated new narrative forms. While supernatural short fiction of the Americas belongs to the broad category of the fantastic, which is generally approached synchronically, reading audiences of the past 200 years have shifted their beliefs about the supernatural several times. While nineteenth-century readers understood science as real and the supernatural as imaginary, modern audiences recognize both as inaccurate, a shift which allows authors of supernatural fiction to celebrate premodern indigenous beliefs which were once disdained by a materialist culture. |
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... Postmodern Fiction , " also makes a convincing case for magical realism as a subset of postmodernism , a proposition explored more in the following paragraphs . Two postmodern attitudes , nostalgia and uncertainty , pervade twentieth ...
... postmodern " is necessary in order to insist upon the postmodern quality of Twain's novella . Lyotard suggests , in The Postmodern Condition : A Report on Knowledge , that postmodernism is partly an extension of modernism and partly an ...
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The Complexity of the Other World | 21 |
Haunted Memories in an Age of Progress | 49 |
Life Is but a Dream | 93 |
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