Spectacular allegories : postmodern American writing and the politics of seeing

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Spectacular allegories : postmodern American writing and the politics of seeing

Josh Cohen

Pluto, 1998

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 162-166) and index

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: pbk ISBN 9780745312071

内容説明

'A significant contribution to the debate about postmodernism.' American Studies 'Spectacular Allegories takes on novels and films of contemporary America as a "simulatory universe" whose true legibility has all but disappeared under the seductive weight of yet more consumerist sight and sound ... The ambition of the undertaking deserves applause; [it] is a genuine and timely attempt to find new grammar for a new American writing.' TLS

目次

Introduction 1: Visuality. Allegory and Postmodern American Writing 2: Cold War Visions: The Development of Norman Mailer's Allegorical Impulse 3: In Camera: The Allegorical Impulse of Cinematographic Fiction 4: Allegorical City: Los Angeles in Postmodern American Writing Notes and References Bibliography Index
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: hbk ISBN 9780745312125

内容説明

In a wide-ranging study, Josh Cohen argues that the American fixation with "image" - literally celebrating the surface, the visual, the spectacular spaces of the cinema and the city - has produced a crisis of literary perception, with crucial cultural and political consequences. Using the work of Walter Benjamin to underscore his analysis, Cohen explores the implications of this postmodern obsession in a series of fascinating readings of contemporary American fiction - Norman Mailer, James Ellory, Robert Coover and Joan Didion amongst others - and draws on new thinking around issues of identity, cultural geography, visuality and space to argue that the "crisis of seeing" in postmodern American fiction, despite the pessimism of Jameson, Harvey and Baudrillard, provides the condition for a new and transformed critical politics of vision.

目次

  • Visuality - allegory and postmodern American writing
  • Cold War visions - the development of Norman Mailer's allegorical impulse
  • in camera - the allegorical impulse of cinematographic fiction
  • allegorical city - Los Angeles in postmodern American writing.

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