A Dictionary Of Postmodernism

Author : Niall Lucy
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405150781

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A Dictionary of Postmodernism by Niall Lucy Pdf

A Dictionary of Postmodernism presents an authoritative A-Z of the critical terms and central figures related to the origins and evolution of postmodernist theory and culture. Explores the names and ideas that have come to define the postmodern condition – from Baudrillard, Jameson, and Lyotard, to the concepts of deconstruction, meta-narrative, and simulation – alongside less canonical topics such as dialogue and punk Includes essays by the late Niall Lucy, a leading expert in postmodernism studies, and by other noted scholars who came together to complete and expand upon his last work Spans a kaleidoscope of postmodernism perspectives, addressing its lovers and haters; its movers and shakers such as Derrida; its origins in modernism and semiotics, and its outlook for the future Features a series of brief essays rather than fixed definitions of the key ideas and arguments Engaging and thought-provoking, this is at once a scholarly guide and enduring reference for the field

Author : Niall Lucy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 1118902173

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A dictionary of postmodernism by Niall Lucy Pdf

"A useful and authoritative A-Z of the critical terms, concepts, and central figures related to the origins and evolution of postmodernist theory and culture"--

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Postmodernism
ISBN : OCLC:1341886494

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The Icon Critical Dictionary of Postmodern Thought by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stuart Sim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Postmodernism
ISBN : OCLC:50625976

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The Routledge Critical Dictionary of Postmodern Thought by Stuart Sim Pdf

Author : Fran Mason
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442276208

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Historical Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and Theater by Fran Mason Pdf

The main aim of the book has been to include writers, movements, forms of writing and textual strategies, critical ideas, and texts that are significant in relation to postmodernist literature. In addition, important scholars, journals, and cultural processes have been included where these are felt to be relevant to an understanding of postmodernist writing. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and Theater contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries on postmodernist writers, the important postmodernist aesthetic practices, significant texts produced throughout the history of postmodernist writing, and important movements and ideas that have created a variety of literary approaches within the form. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the postmodernist literature and theater.

Author : Victor E. Taylor,Charles E. Winquist
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134743087

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Encyclopedia of Postmodernism by Victor E. Taylor,Charles E. Winquist Pdf

The Encyclopedia of Postmodernism provides comprehensive and authoritative coverage of academic disciplines, critical terms and central figures relating to the vast field of postmodern studies. With three cross-referenced sections, the volume is easily accessible to readers with specialized research agendas and general interests in contemporary cultural, historical, literary and philosophical issues. Since its inception in the 1960s, postmodernism has emerged as a significant cultural, political and intellectual force that many scholars would argue defines our era. Postmodernism, in its various configurations, has consistently challenged concepts of selfhood, knowledge formation, aesthetics, ethics, history and politics. This Encyclopedia offers a wide-range of perspectives on postmodernism that illustrates the plurality of this critical concept that is so much part of our current intellectual debates. In this regard, the volume does not adhere to a single definition of postmodernism as much as it documents the use of the term across a variety of academic and cultural pursuits. The Encyclopedia of Postmodernism, it must be noted, resists simply presenting postmodernism as a new style among many styles occuring in the post-disciplinary academy. Documenting the use of the term acknowledges that postmodernism has a much deeper and long-lasting effect on academic and cultural life. In general, the volume rests on the understanding that postmodernism is not so much a style as it is an on-going process, a process of both disintegration and reformation.

Author : Peter V. Zima
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441112897

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Modern/Postmodern by Peter V. Zima Pdf

Modern/Postmodern: Society, Philosophy, Literature offers new definitions of modernism and postmodernism by presenting an original theoretical system of thought that explains the differences between these two key movements. Taking a contrastive approach, Peter V. Zima identifies three key concepts in the relationship between modernism and postmodernism - ambiguity, ambivalence and indifference. Zima defines modernism and postmodernism as problematics, as opposed to aesthetics, stylistics or ideologies. Unlike modernism, which is grounded in an increasing ambivalence towards social norms and values, postmodernity is presented as an era of indifference, i.e. of interchangeable norms, values and perspectives. Taking an historical, interdisciplinary and intercultural approach that engages with Anglo-American and European debates, the book describes the transition from late modernist ambivalence to postmodern indifference in the contexts of philosophy, literature and sociology. This is the ideal guide to the relationship between modernism and postmodernism for students and scholars throughout the humanities.

Author : Jean-François Lyotard
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0816611734

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The Postmodern Condition by Jean-François Lyotard Pdf

In this book it explores science and technology, makes connections between these epistemic, cultural, and political trends, and develops profound insights into the nature of our postmodernity.

Author : Emily Witsell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810892767

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Literary Research and American Postmodernism by Emily Witsell Pdf

Literary Research and American Postmodernism is a guide to scholarly research in the field of American postmodern literature, which this volume defines as the period between 1950 and 1990. This work aims to provide advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars of literature with a comprehensive view of the print and online resources available in literature and related subject areas. The volume offers best practices for research, especially for the challenges inherent to the field of American postmodernism, and provides scholars with a path toward success in their research endeavors. The opening chapters describe the state of academic research in the literary field and how to formulate an appropriate research topic, develop keywords, and use advanced search techniques to improve search results. One chapter is devoted to how to navigate library catalogs, read a catalog record, and locate materials in libraries worldwide. Subsequent chapters describe general reference resources, print and electronic bibliographies, and scholarly journals that focus on literature in the second half of the twentieth century. The author identifies resources for locating the book reviews and historical magazines and newspapers that can offer insight into the history of particular author’s publications. The unique challenges and promises of archival research are outlined, along with tips for getting the most out of a trip to a special collections library to perform primary research. Web resources and techniques for finding scholarly resources on the Internet are addressed in addition to subscription-based or library-owned materials. The final chapter synthesizes the information described in the previous chapters by taking the reader through a real-life research question and demonstrating how a scholar might locate resources on a difficult topic. An appendix of resources in related fields suggests additional directions the researcher might explore.

Author : Stuart Sim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Culture
ISBN : 0415923530

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The Routledge Critical Dictionary of Postmodern Thought by Stuart Sim Pdf

"The Routledge Critical Dictionary of Postmodern Thought constitutes an authoritative, yet truly readable guide to the complexity of postmodernism. This resource contains in-depth essays grouped by subject along with an A-Z list of key words and biographical entries. The contributors trace the impact of postmodern thought in their respective fields, which range throughout the arts, social sciences, politics, science and technology, popular culture, the media, and feminism."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Stuart Sim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135052904

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Fifty Key Postmodern Thinkers by Stuart Sim Pdf

Postmodernism is an important part of the cultural landscape which continues to evolve, yet the ideas and theories surrounding the subject can be diverse and difficult to understand. Fifty Postmodern Thinkers critically examines the work of fifty of the most important theorists within the postmodern movement who have defined and shaped the field, bringing together their key ideas in an accessible format. Drawing on figures from a wide range of subject areas including literature, cultural theory, philosophy, sociology and architecture those covered include: John Barth Umberto Eco Slavoj Zizek Cindy Sherman John Cage Jean-Francois Lyotard Charles Jencks Jacques Derrida Homi K. Bhabha Quentin Tarantino Each entry examines the thinkers’ career, key contributions and theories and refers to their major works. A valuable resource for those studying postmodern ideas at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, this text will appeal across the humanities and social sciences.

Author : Callum G. Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317869870

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Postmodernism for Historians by Callum G. Brown Pdf

Postmodernism is an essential approach to History. This is the first dedicated primer on postmodernism for the historian. It offers a step-by-step guide to postmodern theory, includes a guide to how historians have applied the theory, and provides a review of why its critics are wrong. In simple and clear language, it takes the reader through the chain of theory that developed in the 20th century to become now, in the early 21st century, the leading stimulant of new forms of research in History. With separate chapters on The Sign, The Discourse, Post/Structuralism, The Text, The Self, and Morality, this book will encourage a new critical awareness of Theory when reading books of History, and when writing essays and dissertations. Armed with the principal ideas of Saussure, Barthes, Foucault, and Derrida, the historians can formulate how to combine empirical History with the excitement of fresh perspectives and new skills, merged in the new moral impetus of the postmodern condition. Designed for the beginner this is the essential postmodern starting point.

Author : Stuart Sim
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Postmodernism
ISBN : 9780415243070

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The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism by Stuart Sim Pdf

What is 'deconstruction'? What authors are considered 'postmodern novelists'? The Routledge Companion to Postmodernismcombines a series of fourteen in-depth background chapters with a body of A-Z entries to create an authoritative, yet readable guide to the complex world of postmodernism. Following full-length articles on postmodernism and philosophy, politics, feminism, lifestyles, television, and other postmodern essentials, readers will find a wide range of alphabetically-organized entries on the people, terms and theories connected with postmodernism, including: Peter Ackroyd; Jean Baudrillard; Chaos Theory; Death of the Author; Desire; Fractals; Michel Foucault; Frankfurt School; Generation X; Minimalism; Poststructuralism; Retro; Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak; and Trans-avant-garde. Students interested in any aspect of postmodernist thought will find this an indispensable resource.

Author : Linda Wagner-Martin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351719315

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The Routledge Introduction to American Postmodernism by Linda Wagner-Martin Pdf

The Routledge Introduction to American Postmodernism offers readers a fresh, insightful overview to all genres of postmodern writing. Drawing on a variety of works from not only mainstream authors but also those that are arguably unconventional, renowned scholar Linda Wagner-Martin gives the reader a solid framework and foundation to reading, understanding, and appreciating postmodern literature since its inception through the present day.

Author : Charles C. Lemert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317253679

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Postmodernism is Not What You Think by Charles C. Lemert Pdf

'Charles Lemert is one of the most thoughtful and interesting of sociology's postmodernists. He recurrently finds new angles of vision and is especially helpful for overcoming the pernicious opposition of 'micro' and 'macro' perspectives.' -Craig Calhoun, New York University (on the first edition) Highly readable, the second edition of Postmodernism Is Not What You Think responds to the widespread claim that postmodernism is over. It explains the historical connections between the postmodern and globalization. Those who wish to kill the term postmodernism still must face the facts that the former nationalistic world-system has collapsed and is slowly being replaced by a more global set of structures. The book is completely revised and updated with an entirely new section on globalization. The media and popular culture, identity politics, the science wars, politics and cultural studies, structuralism and poststructuralism, and the new sociologies are also put in perspective as signs of the new social formations dawning at the end of the modern age. Lemert shows that the postmodern is less a theory than a condition of social life brought about by the trouble modernity has gotten itself into.