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Class 14 Literary Criticism Postmodern Fiction ? Postmodernist representation ? Representing the past Postmodernist Representation ? Antirealism ? “ . . . Many postmodern strategies are openly premised on a challenge to the realist notion of representation that presumes the transparency of the medium and thus the direct and natural link between sign and referent or between words and world” (Hutcheon, Politics, 34). Postmodernist Representation ? Exhaustion and replenishment ? “Literature itself had been ?exhausted,? as Barth argued . . . . The great plots has been used again and again。 centuries of stylistic innovation and formal experimentation had left contemporary writers with nothing new to say or do. That ?nothing? . . . Was the starting point for the postmoderns, itself the key to the treasure of a new literature, what Barth would subsequently call ?the literature of replenishment?” (Rowe 181). Postmodernist Representation ? Laying bare the device ? Postmodern denaturalizing: “the simultaneous inscribing and subverting of the conventions of narrative” (Hutcheon, Politics, 49). Postmodernist Represen