American Studies After Postmodernism
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American Studies After Postmodernism
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Author : Theodora Tsimpouki
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2024-01-23
American Studies After Postmodernism written by Theodora Tsimpouki and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-23 with Social Science categories.
This book explores the major challenges that the long-standing and diversely debated demise of postmodernism signifies for American literature, art, culture, history, and politics, in the present, third decade of the twenty-first century. Its scope comprises a vigorous discussion of all these diverse fields undertaken by distinguished scholars as well as junior researchers, U.S. Americanists and European Americanists alike. Focusing on socio-political and cultural developments in the contemporary U.S., their contributions highlight the interconnectedness of the geopolitical, economic, environmental and technological crises that define the historical present on global scale. Chapter 16 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
After Postmodernism
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Author : Christopher K. Coffman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-12-18
After Postmodernism written by Christopher K. Coffman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-18 with Literary Collections categories.
Several of American literature’s most prominent authors, and many of their most perceptive critics and reviewers, argue that fiction of the last quarter century has turned away from the tendencies of postmodernist writing. Yet, the nature of that turn, and the defining qualities of American fiction after postmodernism, remain less than clear. This volume identifies four prominent trends of the contemporary scene: the recovery of the real, a rethinking of historical engagement, a preoccupation with materiality, and a turn to the planetary. Readings of works by various leading figures, including Dave Eggers, Jonathan Franzen, A.M. Homes, Lance Olsen, Richard Powers, William T. Vollmann, and David Foster Wallace, support a variety of arguments about this recent revitalization of American literature. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Textual Practice.
North American Critical Theory After Postmodernism
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Author : P. Nickel
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2012-08-21
North American Critical Theory After Postmodernism written by P. Nickel and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-21 with Political Science categories.
In a series of interviews this book explores the formative experiences of a generation of critical theorists whose work originated in the midst of what has been called 'the postmodern turn,' including discussions of their views on the evolution of critical theory over the past 30 years and their assessment of contemporary politics.
After Postmodernism
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Author : Wang Ning
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-07-19
After Postmodernism written by Wang Ning and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book engages with the critical decline of postmodernism and newer currents of thinking that have come to the fore, including postcolonialism, feminism, and cultural studies, constituting an exploration of the cultural landscape after the heyday of postmodernism in the West and its profound influence on the Chinese cultural scene. Topics discussed include the prevalent theoretical trends and cultural phenomena in the West in the wake of postmodernism, how these developments have influenced contemporary Chinese literary and cultural criticism, and how Chinese scholars can have an equal dialogue with the dominant Western theorists. The chapters examine critical issues and figures in the fields, including postmodernity and globalization, as well as the theories of Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, Homi Bhabha, and Judith Butler. Taking a comparative and cross-cultural perspective, especially between China and the West, the title also sheds light on the imprint of Western theoretical trends on the literature and culture of contemporary China, exemplified in diasporic writing, cinema, women’s literature, popular culture, and the overall orientation of contemporary Chinese literature. The book will be a critical reference for all levels of reader interested in postmodernism, critical theory, postcolonialism, feminism, cultural studies, comparative and world literature, and contemporary Chinese literature and culture.
A Critical Gaze From The Old World
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Author : Isabel Durán G.-Rico
language : en
Publisher: Transatlantic Aesthetics and Culture
Release Date : 2018
A Critical Gaze From The Old World written by Isabel Durán G.-Rico and has been published by Transatlantic Aesthetics and Culture this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with American literature categories.
This volume is the product of a joint effort to bring together critical views »from the Old World« on the field of American Studies. All in all, this book provides the critical gaze of the »expert outsider« who is able to offer a somewhat different but complementary point of view, which can only enrich the general appreciation of American Studies.
New York And Toronto Novels After Postmodernism
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Author : Caroline Rosenthal
language : en
Publisher: Camden House
Release Date : 2011
New York And Toronto Novels After Postmodernism written by Caroline Rosenthal and has been published by Camden House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Literary Collections categories.
Cities are material and symbolic spaces through which nations define their cultural identities. The great cities that have arisen on the North American continent have stimulated the imaginations of the United States and Canada in very different ways. This first comparative study of North American urban fiction starts out by delineating the sociohistorical and literary contexts in which cities grew into diverging symbolic spaces in American and Canadian culture. After an overview of recent developments in the cultural conception of urban space, the book takes New York and Toronto fiction as exemplary for exploring representations of the urban after postmodernism. It analyzes four twenty-first-century novels: two set in New York - Siri Hustvedt's What I Loved and Paule Marshall's The Fisher King - and two set in Toronto - Carol Shields's Unless and Dionne Brand's What We All Long For. While these texts continue to echo the specific traditions of nation building and canon formation in the United States and Canada, they also share certain features. All of them investigate the affective crossroads of the city while returning to a more realistic mode of representation. Caroline Rosenthal is Professor of American Literature at the Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena, Germany.
English Studies From Archives To Prospects
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Author : Irena Zovko Dinković
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2016-04-26
English Studies From Archives To Prospects written by Irena Zovko Dinković and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-26 with Social Science categories.
When we think about what it is we do in academic literary studies, we do so taking account of time – the time of the institution in which this disciplinary practice takes place, and the history of the discipline itself. Since literary studies engage contemporary issues and how they impact the reader, we must also acknowledge processes and events outside the field. The contributions to this volume engage with the idea of temporality not only in Anglophone literature studies, but in the humanities as a whole. In the first section, the literary contributions show that the humanities owe a debt to the past – new paradigms question and challenge the validity of older ones without necessarily discarding them. The second section shows how the disciplinary archive can be modified and expanded to engage its present condition, while the last deals with what that condition forebodes. Despite the range of perspectives adopted here, all contributions echo the history of the discipline of literary studies itself, its present condition, and the possibilities for its survival in an age in which the relevance of humanities is being disputed.
North American Critical Theory After Postmodernism
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Author : P. Nickel
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 2012-01-01
North American Critical Theory After Postmodernism written by P. Nickel and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-01 with Political Science categories.
In a series of interviews this book explores the formative experiences of a generation of critical theorists whose work originated in the midst of what has been called 'the postmodern turn,' including discussions of their views on the evolution of critical theory over the past 30 years and their assessment of contemporary politics.
New Media Cultural Studies And Critical Theory After Postmodernism
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Author : R. Samuels
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2009-12-07
New Media Cultural Studies And Critical Theory After Postmodernism written by R. Samuels and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-07 with Social Science categories.
This book argues that we have moved into a new cultural period, automodernity, which represents a social, psychological, and technological reaction to postmodernity. In fact, by showing how individual autonomy is now being generated through technological and cultural automation, Samuels posits that we must rethink modernity and postmodernity.
Jonathan Franzen At The End Of Postmodernism
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Author : Stephen J. Burn
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2011-10-27
Jonathan Franzen At The End Of Postmodernism written by Stephen J. Burn and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
Jonathan Franzen is one of the most influential, critically-significant and popular contemporary American novelists. This book is the first full-length study of his work and attempts to articulate where American fiction is headed after postmodernism. Stephen Burn provides a comprehensive analysis of each of Franzen's novels - from his early work to the major success of The Corrections - identifying key sources, delineating important narrative strategies, and revealing how Franzen's themes are reinforced by each novel's structure. Supplementing this analysis with comparisons to key contemporaries, David Foster Wallace and Richard Powers, Burn suggests how Franzen's work is indicative of the direction of experimental American fiction in the wake of the so-called end of postmodernism.