Open AccessConcept of Self in Avant-Pop Literature
Author(s) -
Mojca Krevel
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
elope
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.182
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2386-0316
pISSN - 1581-8918
DOI - 10.4312/elope.1.1-2.115-124
Subject(s) - postmodernity , subjectivity , postmodernism , aesthetics , movement (music) , sociology , character (mathematics) , history , epistemology , literature , art , philosophy , geometry , mathematics
The treatise is an investigation into the construction of character and understanding of subjectivity in general as it appears in the literature of writers associated with the Avant-Pop movement. As a movement, the Avant-Pop emerges at the beginning of the 1990’s – the time of substantial social, cultural and economic changes conditioning deeper changes of basic Geistesgeschichte paradigms marking the rise of a new, postmodern era. This article on the one hand examines the paradigm of subjectivity by discussing examples from Avant-Pop literary production in the light of prevailing theoretical opinions and speculations on postmodernity, and – on the other hand – connects the findings to broader social, cultural and technological aspects of contemporary living