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In the arts, maximalism, a reaction against minimalism, is an esthetic of excess and redundancy. The philosophy can be summarized as “more is more” contrasted with minimalist motto "less is more".〔http://mofa.cvatd.fsu.edu/resources/archive/pages/learning/resources/moreismore.pdf〕 ==Literature== The term ''maximalism'' is sometimes associated with post-modern novels, such as by David Foster Wallace and Thomas Pynchon, where digression, reference, and elaboration of detail occupy a great fraction of the text. It can refer to anything seen as excessive, overtly complex and "showy", providing redundant overkill in features and attachments, grossness in quantity and quality, or the tendency to add and accumulate to excess. Novelist John Barth defines literary maximalism through the medieval Roman Catholic Church's opposition between, "two...roads to grace:" :the ''via negativa'' of the monkʹs cell and the hermitʹs cave, and the ''via affirmativa'' of immersion in human affairs, of being in the world whether or not one is of it. Critics have aptly borrowed those terms to characterize the difference between Mr. Beckett, for example, and his erstwhile master James Joyce, himself a maximalist except in his early works.〔Barth, John. “A Few Words About Minimalism”, ''New York Times Book Review'', p.1. Dec. 28, 1986.〕 Takayoshi Ishiwari elaborates on Barth's definition by including a postmodern approach to the notion authenticity. Thus: :Under this label come such writers as, among others, Thomas Pynchon and Barth himself, whose bulky books are in marked contrast with Barthelmeʹs relatively thin novels and collections of short stories. These maximalists are called by such an epithet because they, situated in the age of epistemological uncertainty and therefore knowing that they can never know what is authentic and inauthentic, attempt to include in their fiction everything belonging to that age, to take these authentic and inauthentic things as they are with all their uncertainty and inauthenticity included; their work intends to contain the maximum of the age, in other words, to be the age itself, and because of this their novels are often encyclopedic. As Tom LeClair argues in ''The Art of Excess'', the authors of these ʺmasterworksʺ even ʺgather, represent, and reform the timeʹs excesses into fictions that exceed the timeʹs literary conventions and thereby master the time, the methods of fiction, and the readerʺ.〔Ishiwari, Takayoshi. ʺThe Body That Speaks: Donald Barthelmeʹs ''The Dead Father as Installation''ʺ, Unpublished Masterʹs thesis, p.1. Osaka University, 1996. (link )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「maximalism」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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