caa a22 4500 606172416 CHVBK 20210128100728.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11059-014-0252-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11059-014-0252-y Houliang Chen School of Foreign Languages and Literature, Shandong University of Finance and Economics, 7366 Erhuan Dong Road, 250014, Jinan, Shandong, People's Republic of China aut Constructing postmodernism with incredulity to metanarrative: a comparative perspective on McHale's and Hutcheon's postmodern poetics [Elektronische Daten] [Chen Houliang] With the postmodern incredulity to the legitimacy of metanarrative, how should we construct a totalizing, "better” theory about postmodernism? Focusing on this paradoxical concern, this article scrutinizes Brian McHale's and Linda Hutcheon's different constructions of postmodern poetics with a comparative perspective to expose their respective strong points and drawbacks. The criteria of self-consistency, inner coherence, scope, productiveness and interest, proposed by McHale, are carefully examined to prove their effectiveness as good, but not the absolute, standards of judgment for preferring one construction over the other. Since postmodernism is but a discursive artifact, rather than a real-world object with a clear boundary, literary constructions about postmodernism can only be pluralist, little narratives; there is no true/wrong distinction between them, and each will justify its values, usefulness and interest in its own ways. Comparatively, McHale's postmodern poetics is more formalist, while Hutcheon's more cultural and political, but their approaches, viewpoints and interests can be well complementary. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary, 2014 McHale nationallicence Hutcheon nationallicence Postmodern poetics nationallicence Crisis of legitimacy nationallicence Metanar-rative nationallicence Neohelicon Springer Netherlands 42/1(2015-06-01), 283-295 0324-4652 42:1<283 2015 42 11059 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11059-014-0252-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11059-014-0252-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Houliang Chen School of Foreign Languages and Literature, Shandong University of Finance and Economics, 7366 Erhuan Dong Road, 250014, Jinan, Shandong, People's Republic of China aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Neohelicon Springer Netherlands 42/1(2015-06-01), 283-295 0324-4652 42:1<283 2015 42 11059