| Description |
viii, 226 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Modernism and post modernism / Anthony Giddens -- Modernism and the aesthetics of crisis / Alan Wilde -- Mass society and postmodern 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 -- An answer to the question: what is enlightenment? / Immanuel Kant -- What is enlightenment? / Michael Foucault -- From Twilight of the Idols/The Antichrist / Friedrich Nietzsche -- Answering the question: what is postmodernism? / Jean-Francois Lyotar -- Periodising the sixties / Feredric Jameson -- Capitalism, modernism and post modernism / Terry Eagleton -- Modernity -- an incomplete project / Jurgen Habermas -- From Contingency, Irony and Solidarity / Richard Rorty -- From Simulations / Jean Baudrillard -- Modernism, postmodernism, feminism: gender and autonomy theory / Patricia Waugh -- From A Poetics of Postmodernism / Linda Hutcheon -- From Postmodernist Fiction / Brian McHale |
| Summary |
Publisher description: Postmodernism provides a collection of the incessantly cited but nevertheless still widely-scattered critical texts on postmodernism and literary theory. It includes all the "classics" as well as some less obvious, though 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 |
| Analysis |
Literature Criticism |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Previous ed.: 1992 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [219]-223) and index |
| Subject |
Criticism.
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Postmodernism (Literature)
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| Author |
Waugh, Patricia.
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| LC no. |
92028220 |
| ISBN |
0340573805 (hbk) |
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0340573813 (paperback) |
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