van Alphen, E. (1989). The heterotopian space of the discussions on postmodernism. Poetics Today, 10, 819–839. In October 2013, another American literary journal Narrative also published a special issue on “Postmodernist Fiction: East and West” with Wang Ning and Brian McHale, two postmodernist scholars with international fame, as its guest editors. The latest boom of publications of postmodernist scholarship containing eight articles by specialists in the study of postmodernist fictions, this special issue focuses on the narrative techniques of postmodern narrative in contemporary fiction “in an attempt to place postmodernist fiction in a historical and global context” (Wang 2013, p. 266). Although Wang Ning observes that “postmodern ideas and ways of thinking have permeated almost all the aspects of contemporary culture and are still influential in many humanities fields” (Wang 2013, p. 265), he admits, not unhesitatingly, that “it has receded into the historical past, albeit a past which is nevertheless still influential and significant to our literary and cultural studies” (Wang 2013, p. 265). Culler, J. (1997). Literary theory: a very short introduction. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.

Cruz-Villalobos, Luis (2020). Pauper God. Theographies. Santiago de Chile: Independently Poetry [5]McHale, B. (1992b). Postmodernism, or the anxiety of master narratives. Review of A poetics of postmodernism: history, theory, fiction by Linda Hutcheon and Postmodernism, or the cultural logic of late capitalism by Frederic Jameson. Diacritics, 22, 17–33.

In recent times there has been a revitalized interest with new work being done by two schools of thought in theopoetics. One school values process theology and postmodern philosophy. It is led by individuals such as L. Callid Keefe-Perry, Rubem Alves, Catherine Keller, John Caputo, Peter Rollins, Scott Holland, Melanie May, Matt Guynn, Roland Faber, and others. [1]A Poetics of Postmodernism is essential reading for anyone interested in current studies of literature, art and "entertainment".' - Geoff Wade, Reviewing Psychology Regarding catharsis as the defining function of tragedy (1449b 28), Aristotle expects highly of the educative function of poetic literature and claims the response of one who is drawn into the experience of a tragedy is first of all to feel fear and pity (1452a 2; 1452b 1; 1452b 34). In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle holds moral virtue as the result of habit (1103a 15), and moderate sensibility (including pity and fear), as important moral virtues, can reasonably be cultivated, refined and elevated by habitual exposure to tragedy. According to Aristotle, the imitation of an action in a tragedy, by producing the fear and pity we feel, ends in a ritual purification of our feelings from some polluting impiety, thus to temper and reduce them to a moderate measure, and finally to be helpful for the social life. McHale, B. (2007). What was postmodernism? Electronic Book Review. http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/fictionspresent/tense. Accessed 20 Jan 2014.

Theopoetics makes significant use of "radical" and "ontological" metaphor to create a more fluid and less stringent referent for the divine. One of the functions of theopoetics is to recalibrate theological perspectives, suggesting that theology can be more akin to poetry than physics. It belies the logical assertion of the principle of bivalence and stands in contrast to some rigid Biblical hermeneutics that suggest that each passage of scripture has only one, usually teleological, interpretation. The dismissal of the aesthetic as a living part of language has turned the academic enterprise of biblical studies and theology into a language more at home with lawyers than poets. Theopoetics is the art of using words and thoughts that speak to the reader in an aesthetic and existential way to inspire spirituality in the reader. Whereas those who utilize a strict, historical-grammatical approach believe scripture and theology possess inerrant factual meaning and pay attention to historicity, a theopoetic approach takes an allegorical position on faith statements that can be continuously reinterpreted. Theopoetics suggest that just as a poem can take on new meaning depending on the context in which the reader interprets it, texts and experiences of the Divine can and should take on new meaning depending on the changing situation of the individual.

By using this service, you agree that you will only keep content for personal use, and will not openly distribute them via Dropbox, Google Drive or other file sharing services Postmodernism was not the invention of literary critics, but literature can certainly claim to be one of the most important laboratories of postmodernism. Perhaps because of the sheer weight of numbers in literary studies during the 1970s and 1980s, as compared with the numbers of scholars writing or students reading in architecture, film studies, or the embryonic disciplines of women's studies or cultural studies, ideas of postmodernism tended in these formative decades to be framed by reference to literary examples. Ricoeur, Paul (1976), Interpretation Theory: Discourse and the Surplus of Meaning, Fort Worth: Texas Christian Press, ISBN 0-912646-59-4 . School of Foreign Languages and Literature, Shandong University of Finance and Economics, 7366 Erhuan Dong Road, Jinan, 250014, Shandong, People’s Republic of China