Theoretical Perspective on Postmodernism in Literature and Use of Contemporary Narrative Technique

Exploring the Intersection of Traditional Concepts and Contemporary Narrative in Postmodern Literature

Abstract

The present article is an attempt to reflect on new openings and recent developments in literature, literary theory and culture which seem to point postmodernism and raise a question whether what appears as newness is not rather a return to traditional concepts, theoretical premises and authorial practices. Postmodern literature is marked with such typical features as playfulness, pastiche or hybridity of genres, meta-fiction, hyper-reality, fragmentation, and non-linear narrative. Narrative was reduced (in “Ulysses “and in the French nouveau roman). Tendencies have crystallized to shape new genres. One broad grouping is the Meta-fiction, or the novel that exposes conventions only to discard, perhaps by the use of an obviously naïve narrator.