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Postmodernism : a reader / [edited by] Patricia Waugh.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; E. Arnold ; (c)1993.; New York, New York : Distributed in the USA by Routledge, Chapman and Hall, (c)1993.Edition: Repr. with minor correctionsDescription: viii, 226 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
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  • unmediated
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  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0340573813
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN98.P678 1993
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Contents:
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.
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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.

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