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<p>The interview offers a comprehensive, paradigmatic overview of the experience of literary modes within the broad frameworks of modernity and postmodernity. It invites reflection and rethinking of epistemic change from a major literary historian and theorist whose work in the Anglo-American context has become synonymous with the examination of temporality, historicity, and poeticality in twentieth century experimentation with form. Revisiting central concepts and aesthetic categories in literary criticism and theory, Randall Stevenson contributes a highly contemporary, ground-breaking vision of the literary act against the backdrop of the new structures of knowledge pertaining to the digital age and the post-humanist crisis.</p>
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The interview offers a comprehensive, paradigmatic overview of the experience of literary modes within the broad frameworks of modernity and postmodernity. It invites reflection and rethinking of epistemic change from a major literary historian and theorist whose work in the Anglo-American context has become synonymous with the examination of temporality, historicity, and poeticality in twentieth century experimentation with form. Revisiting central concepts and aesthetic categories in literary criticism and theory, Randall Stevenson contributes a highly contemporary, ground-breaking vision of the literary act against the backdrop of the new structures of knowledge pertaining to the digital age and the post-humanist crisis.

Modernism, Postmodernism and the Nature of the Times: A Conversation with Randall Stevenson

American, British and Canadian Studies

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The interview offers a comprehensive, paradigmatic overview of the experience of literary modes within the broad frameworks of modernity and postmodernity. It...

Modernism, Postmodernism and the Nature of the Times: A Conversation with Randall Stevenson

Article Category: Artikel

Published Online: Dec 30, 2021

Page range: 105 - 122

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/abcsj-2021-0020

Keywords
modernism, postmodernism, literature, temporality, epistemic, paradigmatic, historicity, post-war sensibility, humanities, dissociation of sensibility

© 2021 ADRIANA NEAGU, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Modernism, Postmodernism and the Nature of the Times: A Conversation with Randall Stevenson

Article Category: Artikel

Published Online: Dec 30, 2021

Page range: 105 - 122

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/abcsj-2021-0020

Keywordsmodernism, postmodernism, literature, temporality, epistemic, paradigmatic, historicity, post-war sensibility, humanities, dissociation of sensibility

© 2021 ADRIANA NEAGU, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
modernism, postmodernism, literature, temporality, epistemic, paradigmatic, historicity, post-war sensibility, humanities, dissociation of sensibility