Fantasy Politics Postmodernity
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Fantasy Politics Postmodernity
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Author : Andrew Rayment
language : en
Publisher: Brill Rodopi
Release Date : 2014
Fantasy Politics Postmodernity written by Andrew Rayment and has been published by Brill Rodopi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with History categories.
"The books are true while reality is lying..." Championing the popular Fantasy genre on the same terms as its readers, Rayment casts a critical eye over the substance and methods of political critique in the Fantasy novels of Terry Pratchett, Philip Pullman and China Miéville. Ranging across subjects as diverse as exquisite fundamentalism and revolutionary trains, encountering pervert-priests, dwarf hermaphrodites and sex-scarred lovers and pondering the homicidal tendencies of fairy tales and opera, Fantasy, Politics, Postmodernity develops a theoretically wide-ranging and illuminating account of how the novels of these writers do and do not sustain politically insightful critique of the real world, while bringing intellectual and ethical concerns to bear on the popular Fantasy form.
Sexual Fantasy
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Author : Emily R. Cordo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Sexual Fantasy written by Emily R. Cordo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Feminist theology categories.
Rethinking The Politics Of Absurdity
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Author : Matthew H. Bowker
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-11-12
Rethinking The Politics Of Absurdity written by Matthew H. Bowker and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-12 with Political Science categories.
What does it mean to describe something or someone as absurd? Why did absurd philosophy and literature become so popular amidst the violent conflicts and terrors of the mid- to late-twentieth century? Is it possible to understand absurdity not as a feature of events, but as a psychological posture or stance? If so, what are the objectives, dynamics, and repercussions of the absurd stance? And in what ways has the absurd stance continued to shape postmodern thought and contemporary culture? In Rethinking the Politics of Absurdity, Matthew H. Bowker offers a surprising account of absurdity as a widespread endeavor to make parts of our experience meaningless. In the last century, he argues, fears about subjects’ destructive desires have combined with fears about rationality in a way that has made the absurd stance seem attractive. Drawing upon diverse sources from philosophy, literature, politics, psychoanalysis, theology, and contemporary culture, Bowker identifies the absurd effort to make aspects of our histories, our selves, and our public projects meaningless with postmodern revolts against reason and subjectivity. Weaving together analyses of the work of Albert Camus, Georges Bataille, Judith Butler, Emmanuel Levinas, and others with interview data and popular narratives of apocalypse and survival, Bowker shows that the absurd stance and the postmodern revolt invite a kind of bargain, in which meaning is sacrificed in exchange for the survival of innocence. Bowker asks us to consider that the very premise of this bargain is false: that ethical subjects and healthy communities cannot be created in absurdity. Instead, we must make meaningful even the most shocking losses, terrors, and destructive powers with which we live. Bowker's book will be of interest to scholars and practitioners in the fields of political science, philosophy, literature, psychoanalysis, sociology, and cultural studies.
Ellipse Of Uncertainty
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Author : Lance Olsen
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1987
Ellipse Of Uncertainty written by Lance Olsen and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Literary Criticism categories.
This fascinating study of literary theory is the first work of its kind to examine the intersection of fantasy and postmodernism, and to analyze contemporary fantasy writers comparatively. After carefully developing working definitions of postmodernism and fantasy, the author goes on to analyze works by various postmodernist fantasy writers. Olsen's approach is eclectic, bringing to each text or textual complex those forces he feels most interestingly stir up its sediment--be they biographical, structural, psychoanalytic, philosophical, reader-response, or otherwise. Finally he argues that postmodern fantasy is the literary equivalent of deconstructionism, for it interrogates all we take for granted about language and experience, giving these no more than shifting and provisional status. It may be seen as a mode of radical skepticism that believes only in the possiblilty of total intelligibility.
Fantasy City
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Author : John A. Hannigan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Fantasy City written by John A. Hannigan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with categories.
Critiquing Postmodernism In Contemporary Discourses Of Race
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Author : S. Kim
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2009-11-23
Critiquing Postmodernism In Contemporary Discourses Of Race written by S. Kim and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
Critiquing Postmodernism in Contemporary Discourses of Race challenges the critical emphasis on otherness in treatments of race in literary and cultural studies. Sue J. Kim deftly argues that this treatment not only perpetuates narrow identity politics, but obscures the political and economic structures that shape issues of race in literary studies. Kim s revelatory book shows how reading authors through their identity ends up neglecting both complex historical contexts and aesthetic forms. This comparative study calls for a reconsideration of the bases for critical engagement and a reading ethics that melds the best of historicist and formalist approaches to literature.
Postmodernism And The Politics Of Culture
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Author : Adam Katz
language : en
Publisher: Westview Press
Release Date : 2000-12
Postmodernism And The Politics Of Culture written by Adam Katz and has been published by Westview Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-12 with Philosophy categories.
Furthermore, Postmodernism and the Politics of "Culture" addresses the mode in which cultural studies constitutes and reproduces itself along with its objects, showing that the same logic of heterogeneity and subversion cultural studies located in the "popular" also serves to present cultural studies itself as a (post) discipline immune to structural critique.
Exploding The Western
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Author : Sara L. Spurgeon
language : en
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Release Date : 2005
Exploding The Western written by Sara L. Spurgeon and has been published by Texas A&M University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
The frontier and Western expansionism are so quintessentially a part of American history that the literature of the West and Southwest is in some senses the least regional and the most national literature of all. The frontier--the place where cultures meet and rewrite themselves upon each other's texts--continues to energize writers whose fiction evokes, destroys, and rebuilds the myth in ways that attract popular audiences and critics alike. Sara L. Spurgeon focuses on three writers whose works not only exemplify the kind of engagement with the theme of the frontier that modern authors make, but also show the range of cultural voices that are present in Southwestern literature: Cormac McCarthy, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Ana Castillo. Her central purposes are to consider how the differing versions of the Western "mythic" tales are being recast in a globalized world and to examine the ways in which they challenge and accommodate increasingly fluid and even dangerous racial, cultural, and international borders. In Spurgeon's analysis, the spaces in which the works of these three writers collide offer some sharply differentiated visions but also create new and unsuspected forms, providing the most startling insights. Sometimes beautiful, sometimes tragic, the new myths are the expressions of the larger culture from which they spring, both a projection onto a troubled and troubling past and an insistent, prophetic vision of a shared future
The Cultural Politics Of Postmodernism
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Author : John Tagg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
The Cultural Politics Of Postmodernism written by John Tagg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Philosophy categories.
Ellipse Of Uncertainty
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Author : Lance Olsen
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1987
Ellipse Of Uncertainty written by Lance Olsen and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Literary Criticism categories.
This fascinating study of literary theory is the first work of its kind to examine the intersection of fantasy and postmodernism, and to analyze contemporary fantasy writers comparatively. After carefully developing working definitions of postmodernism and fantasy, the author goes on to analyze works by various postmodernist fantasy writers. Olsen's approach is eclectic, bringing to each text or textual complex those forces he feels most interestingly stir up its sediment--be they biographical, structural, psychoanalytic, philosophical, reader-response, or otherwise. Finally he argues that postmodern fantasy is the literary equivalent of deconstructionism, for it interrogates all we take for granted about language and experience, giving these no more than shifting and provisional status. It may be seen as a mode of radical skepticism that believes only in the possiblilty of total intelligibility.