TY  - BOOK
AU  - Waugh,Patricia
TI  - Postmodernism: a reader 
AV  - PN98.W354.P678 1993 
PY  - 1993///
CY  - London
PB  - E. Arnold
KW  - Criticism
KW  - Postmodernism (Literature)
N1  - 1 (pages 219.-223) and index; Section 1. Modernism and postmodernism. 1. Modernism and postmodernism; Anthony Giddens. 2. Modernism and the aesthetics of crisis; Alan Wilde --; Section 2. Postmodernism and literary history. Introduction. 3. Mass society and postmodern fiction; 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 --; Section 4. Postmodern theory: the current debate. Introduction. 12. Answering the question: what is postmodernism? / Jean-Francois Lyotard. 13. Periodising the sixties; 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 --; Section 5. Reading postmodern artefacts. Introduction. 19. From A poeics of postmodernism; Linda Hutcheon. 20. From Postmodernist fiction; Brian McHale; 2
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