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- W39710366 abstract "Since advent of modernism, sentimentality has increasingly fallen from grace as a tenable mode of expression in literary fiction. Originally valued highly, sentimentality has come to be associated with an unrefined sense of taste and with bad faith. In case of postmodernist fiction, critical reception of that fiction would have us believe, sentimentality has been finally eclipsed, together with most other modes of affect. A number of novels by postmodernist authors, however, wed sentimentality as well as other modes of affect with a decidedly postmodernist aesthetics. In this study, I investigate what shape sentimentality may assume, and in what kinds of configurations it may be found, in postmodernist fiction. In novels I consider, sentimentality is articulated with a postmodernist aesthetics, which involves techniques such as double-coding and reflexivity, but also with a postmodern ethico-spiritual thinking that involves notions of alterity, sensibility and vulnerability. Thus, novels approach what I call an aesthetics of vulnerability. As a shorthand for shape sentimentality assumes through this combination of postmodernist aesthetics and ethico-spiritual thinking, I introduce phrase the In uncovering aesthetics of vulnerability and nature of sentimentum, I focus on novels of British author, Graham Swift, as these strike me as exemplary for my investigation. Throughout his oeuvre, I argue, Swift approaches a more affirmative vision of a postmodern sentimentality. Thus, Swift's narratives also gradually become more vulnerable in sense of laying themselves bare to scepticism and criticism, as they display sentimental and romantic notions without qualifying and undermining them. However, ambitions of my thesis are both larger and more general than illuminating a single author's oeuvre: I am seeking to alter definitions of postmodernist fiction as well as terms of its theorization. Hence, in my conclusion, I consider a more general movement toward an aesthetics of vulnerability in postmodernist fiction. I discuss novels by Julian Barnes, Penelope Lively, and Jeanette Winterson in order to show wider applications of concepts of an aesthetics of vulnerability and of sentimentum." @default.
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- W39710366 date "2003-12-31" @default.
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- W39710366 title "An Aesthetics Of Vulnerability: The Sentimentum and The Novels Of Graham Swift" @default.
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