Crossing the Boundaries between Modernist and Postmodernist Poetics: The Critical Reception of Jeanette Winterson’s Novels Cover Image

Crossing the Boundaries between Modernist and Postmodernist Poetics: The Critical Reception of Jeanette Winterson’s Novels
Crossing the Boundaries between Modernist and Postmodernist Poetics: The Critical Reception of Jeanette Winterson’s Novels

Author(s): Alina Preda
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Comparative Study of Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai
Keywords: modernism; postmodernism; taxonomic controversies; contemporary literary writing; a Wintersonian ars poetica;

Summary/Abstract: Since Jeanette Winterson’s works display an electrifying combination of features, some characteristic to modernist poetics, others representative for postmodernist poetics, this paper aims to assess the oppositional critical claims that tend to assign Winterson’s novels to the postmodernist trend and, respectively, to the modernist tradition, by taking into account both the author’s work (fictional, as well as non-fictional) and her own self-proclaimed affiliation to modernism.

  • Issue Year: 5/2019
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 22-39
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: English