Postmodernism : a reader / [print]
edited by] Patricia Waugh.
- Repr. with minor corrections
- London ; E. Arnold ; (c)1993. New York, New York : Distributed in the USA by Routledge, Chapman and Hall, (c)1993.
- viii, 226 pages ; 23 cm.
Section 1. Modernism and postmodernism. 1. Modernism and postmodernism Section 2. Postmodernism and literary history. Introduction. 3. Mass society and postmodern fiction Section 4. Postmodern theory: the current debate. Introduction. 12. Answering the question: what is postmodernism? / Jean-Francois Lyotard. 13. Periodising the sixties Section 5. Reading postmodern artefacts. Introduction. 19. From A poeics of postmodernism Anthony Giddens. 2. Modernism and the aesthetics of crisis Alan Wilde -- Irving Howe. 4. Cross the border, close the gap Leslie Fielder. 5. Against interpretation Susan Sontag. 6. From A sense of an ending Frank Kermode. 7. From Paracriticisms Ihab Hassan. 8. The detective and the boundary: some notes on the postmodern literary imagination William Spanos. -- Section 3. The critique of enlightened modernity: philosophical precursors. Introduction. 9. An answer to the question: what is enlightenment? / Immanuel Kant. 10. What is enlightenment? / Michael Foucalt. 11. From Twilight of the idols/The antichrist Friedrich Nietzsche -- Fredric Jameson. 14. Capitalism, modernism and postmodernism Terry Eagleton. 15. Modernity, an incomplete project Jurgen Habermas. 16. From Contingency, irony and solidarity Richard Rorty. 17. From Simulations Jean Baudrillard. 18. Modernism, postmodernism, feminism: gender and autonomy theory Patricia Waugh -- Linda Hutcheon. 20. From Postmodernist fiction Brian McHale.