Constructing Postmodernism
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Constructing Postmodernism
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Author : Brian McHale
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-11-12
Constructing Postmodernism written by Brian McHale and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
Brian McHale provides a series of readings of a wide range of postmodernist fiction, from Eco's Foucault's Pendulum to the works of cyberpunk science-fiction, relating the works to aspects of postmodern popular culture.
Beyond Postmodernism
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Author : Klaus Stierstorfer
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2012-05-02
Beyond Postmodernism written by Klaus Stierstorfer and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
After the veritable hype concerning postmodernism in the 1980s and early 1990s, when questions about when it began, what it means and which texts it comprises were apt to trigger heated discussions, the excitement has notably cooled down at the turn of the century. Voices are now beginning to be heard which seem to suggest a new episteme in the making which points beyond postmodernism, while it remains at the same time very uncertain whether what appears as newness is not rather a return to traditional concepts, theoretical premises, and authorial practices. Contributors to this volume propose to explore new openings and recent developments in anglophone literatures and cultural theories which engage with issues seen to be central in the construction of a postmodern paradigm, but deal with them in ways that promise new openings or a new Zeitgeist.
Beginning Postmodernism
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Author : Tim Woods
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 1999-08-20
Beginning Postmodernism written by Tim Woods and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-08-20 with Art categories.
"Postmodernism" has become the buzzword of contemporary society. Yet it remains baffling in its variety of definitions, contexts and associations. Beginning Postmodernism aims to offer clear, accessible and step-by-step introductions to postmodernism across a wide range of subjects. It encourages readers to explore how the debates about postmodernism have emerged from basic philosophical and cultural ideas. With its emphasis firmly on "postmodernism in practice," the book contains exercises and questions designed to help readers understand and reflect upon a variety of positions in the following areas of contemporary culture: philosophy and cultural theory; architecture and concepts of space; visual art; sculpture and the design arts; popular culture and music; film, video and television culture; and the social sciences.
Feminism And The Postmodern Impulse
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Author : Magali Cornier Michael
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 1996-07-03
Feminism And The Postmodern Impulse written by Magali Cornier Michael and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-07-03 with Social Science categories.
Analyzes the intersections between feminist politics and postmodern aesthetics as demonstrated in recent Anglo-American fiction.
The Illicit Joyce Of Postmodernism
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Author : Kevin J. H. Dettmar
language : en
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Release Date : 1996
The Illicit Joyce Of Postmodernism written by Kevin J. H. Dettmar and has been published by Univ of Wisconsin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Literary Criticism categories.
For nearly three quarters of a century, the modernist way of reading has been the only way of reading James Joyce--useful, yes, and powerful but, like all frameworks, limited. This book takes a leap across those limits into postmodernism, where the pleasures and possibilities of an unsuspected Joyce are yet to be found. Kevin J. H. Dettmar begins by articulating a stylistics of postmodernism drawn from the key texts of Roland Barthes, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Jean-François Lyotard. Read within this framework, Dubliners emerges from behind its modernist facade as the earliest product of Joyce's proto-postmodernist sensibility. Dettmar exposes these stories as tales of mystery, not mastery, despite the modernist earmarks of plentiful symbols, allusions, and epiphanies. Ulysses, too, has been inadequately served by modernist critics. Where they have emphasized the work's ingenious Homeric structure, Dettmar focuses instead upon its seams, those points at which the narrative willfully, joyfully overflows its self-imposed bounds. Finally, he reads A Portrait of the Artist and Finnegans Wake as less playful, less daring texts--the first constrained by the precious, would-be poet at its center, the last marking a surprising retreat from the constantly evolving, vertiginous experience of Ulysses. In short, The Illicit Joyce of Postmodernism explores what happens when the extra-literary pronouncements of Eliot, Pound, and Joyce, as well as Joyce's early critics, are set aside and a new, "unauthorized" Joyce is allowed to appear. This postmodern Joyce, more willful and less easily compartmentalized, stands as a counterpoint to the modernist Joyce who has perhaps become too familiar.
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.
Postmodernism And China
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Author : Xudong Zhang
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2000-10-27
Postmodernism And China written by Xudong Zhang and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-10-27 with History categories.
This work maps the terrain of the postmodern in China.
Trauma Postmodernism And The Aftermath Of World War Ii
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Author : P. Crosthwaite
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2009-01-29
Trauma Postmodernism And The Aftermath Of World War Ii written by P. Crosthwaite and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
The first sustained study of the relationship between Anglo-American postmodernist fiction and the Second World War, Crosthwaite demonstrates that postmodernism has not abandoned history but has rather reformulated it in terms of trauma that is traceable, time and again, to the catastrophes of the 1940s.
International Postmodernism
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Author : Johannes Willem Bertens
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 1997
International Postmodernism written by Johannes Willem Bertens and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Art categories.
Containing more than fifty essays by major literary scholars, International Postmodernism divides into four main sections. The volume starts off with a section of eight introductory studies dealing with the subject from different points of view followed by a section that deals with postmodernism in other arts than literature, while a third section discusses renovations of narrative genres and other strategies and devices in postmodernist writing. The final and fourth section deals with the reception and processing of postmodernism in different parts of the world. Three important aspects add to the special character of International Postmodernism: The consistent distinction between postmodernity and postmodernism; equal attention to the making and diffusion of postmodernism and the workings of literature in general; and the focus on the text and the reader (i.e., the reader's knowledge, experience, interests, and competence) as crucial factors in text interpretation. This comprehensive study does not expressly focus on American postmodernism, although American interpretations of postmodernism are a major point of reference. The recognition that varying literary and cultural conditions in this world are bound to produce endless varieties of postmodernism made the editors, Hans Bertens and Douwe Fokkema, opt for the title International Postmodernism.
Fifty Key Postmodern Thinkers
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Author : Stuart Sim
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-08-21
Fifty Key Postmodern Thinkers written by Stuart Sim and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
Postmodernism is an important part of the cultural landscape which continues to evolve, yet the ideas and theories surrounding the subject can be diverse and difficult to understand. Fifty Postmodern Thinkers critically examines the work of fifty of the most important theorists within the postmodern movement who have defined and shaped the field, bringing together their key ideas in an accessible format. Drawing on figures from a wide range of subject areas including literature, cultural theory, philosophy, sociology and architecture those covered include: John Barth Umberto Eco Slavoj Zizek Cindy Sherman John Cage Jean-Francois Lyotard Charles Jencks Jacques Derrida Homi K. Bhabha Quentin Tarantino Each entry examines the thinkers’ career, key contributions and theories and refers to their major works. A valuable resource for those studying postmodern ideas at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, this text will appeal across the humanities and social sciences.