Postmodernism : a reader

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Postmodernism : a reader

[edited by] Patricia Waugh

Edward Arnold, 1992

  • : hard
  • : pbk

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Bibliography: p. [219]-223

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: hard ISBN 9780340573808

Description

This book is designed as a resource for the increasing number of teachers and students in higher education involved in courses on postmodernism and literary theory. It is a collection of the incessantly cited, but nevertheless still widely-scattered, critical texts on the subject and includes all the "classics" as well as some less obvious, though no less stimulating, choices.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Modernism and postmodernism: "Modernism and Postmodernism", Anthony Giddens
  • "Modernism and the Aesthetics of Crisis", Alan Wilde. Part 2 Postmodernism and literary history: "Mass Society and Post-Modern Fiction", Irving Howe
  • "Cross the Border - Close the Gap", Leslie Fiedler
  • "Against Interpretation", Susan Sontag
  • from "A Sense of an Ending, Frank Kermode
  • from "Paracriticisms", Ihab Hassan
  • "The Detective and the Boundary - some notes on the Postmodern Literary Imagination", William Spanos. Part 3 The critique of enlightened modernity - philosophical precursors: "An Answer to the question: "What is Enlightenment?", Immanuel Kant
  • from "Twighlight of the Idols/The Antichrist", Friedrich Nietzsche. Part 4 Postmodern theory - the current debate: "Answering the Question: What is Postmodernism?", Jean-Francois Lyotard
  • "Postmodernism or the Consumer Logic of Late Capitalism", Fredric Jameson
  • "Capitalism, Modernism and Postmodernism", Terry Eagleton
  • "Modernity - An Incomplete Project", Jurgen Habermas
  • from "Contingency, Irony and Solidarity", Richard Rorty
  • from "Simulations", Jean Baudrillard
  • "Postmodernism, Modernism, Gender
  • The view from Feminism", Patrician Waugh. Part 5 Reading postmodern artefacts: from "A Poetics of Postmodernism", Linda Hutcheon
  • from "Postmodernist Fiction", Brian McHale.
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780340573815

Description

"Postmodernism" is a valuable resource for the increasing numbers of teachers and students in higher education involved in courses on postmodernism and literary theory. It is a collection of the incessantly cited but nevertheless still widely-scattered critical texts on the subject and includes all the "classics" as well as some less obvious, through no less stimulating, choices. An introduction and commentary by Pat Waugh provides essential information and offers a context within which to view the chosen texts. The first postmodernist reader prepared with literature students particularly in mind; the thorough and helpful editorial commentary help to ensure that this will become an essential coursebook.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Modernism and postmodernism: "Modernism and Postmodernism", Anthony Giddens
  • "Modernism and the Aesthetics of Crisis", Alan Wilde. Part 2 Postmodernism and literary history: "Mass Society and Post-Modern Fiction", Irving Howe
  • "Cross the Border - Close the Gap", Leslie Fiedler
  • "Against Interpretation", Susan Sontag
  • from "A Sense of an Ending, Frank Kermode
  • from "Paracriticisms", Ihab Hassan
  • "The Detective and the Boundary - some notes on the Postmodern Literary Imagination", William Spanos. Part 3 The critique of enlightened modernity - philosophical precursors: "An Answer to the question: "What is Enlightenment?", Immanuel Kant
  • from "Twighlight of the Idols/The Antichrist", Friedrich Nietzsche. Part 4 Postmodern theory - the current debate: "Answering the Question: What is Postmodernism?", Jean-Francois Lyotard
  • "Postmodernism or the Consumer Logic of Late Capitalism", Fredric Jameson
  • "Capitalism, Modernism and Postmodernism", Terry Eagleton
  • "Modernity - An Incomplete Project", Jurgen Habermas
  • from "Contingency, Irony and Solidarity", Richard Rorty
  • from "Simulations", Jean Baudrillard
  • "Postmodernism, Modernism, Gender
  • The view from Feminism", Patrician Waugh. Part 5 Reading postmodern artefacts: from "A Poetics of Postmodernism", Linda Hutcheon
  • from "Postmodernist Fiction", Brian McHale.

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