Postmodern Themes and Techniques: Embarking an Innovative Reading of Narrative Texts

Abdalhadi Nimer Abdalqader Abu Jweid

Abstract


This study is approaches postmodern literature’s thematic and technical characteristics. It demonstrates how literary themes and techniques intersect with each other in postmodern literature through narrative descriptions and fictional events. The duality of postmodern themes and techniques will be further elaborated by discussing postmodern literary characteristics that offer genuine and unprecedented fictional qualities. The discussion of the relationship between literary themes and techniques would yield in cogent critical interpretation; whereby fictional texts add to the cognitive background of the readers and their view of reality and their social milieus. This background enriches the current scholarship on postmodern literature and how it could be interpreted and comprehend within its social and cultural circumstances.

Keywords


Fiction; Narrative; Postmodernism; Techniques; Themes

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