| Description |
vii, 217 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
I. The Broken Promise: Ideology and the Ageing of the New. Georg Lukacs and the Reification of Consciousness. Lukacs and the Novel. Realism, Modernism, Totality and Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury. Caddy and Faulkner's promesse du bonheur in The Sound and the Fury. Adorno and the Culture Industry. John Dos Passos' USA. Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus. Postmodernism and the Avant-Garde. Jameson's Postmodernism -- II. Postmodern Reflections: Thinking after Marxism. Jean-Francois Lyotard and the Problem with Grand Narratives. Lyotard, Postmodernism and the Sublime. Unimaginable Guilt: Toni Morrison's Beloved. Jean Baudrillard: Ideology and Simulacra. 'Now More Than Ever': Death and Cultural Consumption in Don DeLillo. A Portrait of the Postmodern: Goods and Simulacra. Postmodern Forms: Pastiche and Electronic Reproduction. Don DeLillo and Self-Conscious Postmodernism. DeLillo: From Modernism to Postmodernism -- III. Postmodernity and the Historical Novel. With the Grain: Reading Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon. Adorno: The Ageing of the New. Martin Amis's Time's Arrow: The Art of Justification -- IV. Postmodern Political Fictions. The Fetish of the New: Culture and Class in Alasdair Gray's Something Leather. Salman Rushdie. Aijaz Ahmad on Rushdie and the Postmodern. Rushdie and Orientalism. 'No Place Like Home': Postmodern Politics and The Satanic Verses. The Satanic Verses and The New. Imaging Utopia: The Land of Oz -- V. Postmodern Inadequacies: Adorno contra Jameson |
| Summary |
"The Fiction of Postmodernity is a significant and accessible new study of the relation of postmodern fiction to theories of the postmodern. Contemporary works of fiction by novelists such as Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, Thomas Pynchon and Martin Amis are viewed in relation to critiques of the 'culture industry', analyses of the 'postmodern condition' and theories of simulacra. The work of influential theorists of the postmodern - such as Theodor Adorno, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Fredric Jameson and Jean Baudrillard - is explained and compared."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Postmodernism (Literature)
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Postmodernism.
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| ISBN |
074861088X (paperback) |
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0748612033 (hbk.) |
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