Late Postmodernism

Author : J. Green
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-05-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781403980403

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Does the novel have a future? Questions of this kind, which are as old as the novel itself, acquired a fresh urgency at the end of the twentieth-century with the rise of new media and the relegation of literature to the margins of American culture. As a result, anxieties about readership, cultural authority and literary value have come to preoccupy a second generation of postmodern novelists. Through close analysis of several major novels of the past decade, including works by Don DeLillo, Philip Roth, Kathryn Davis, Jonathan Franzen and Richard Powers, Late Postmodernism examines the forces shaping contemporary literature and the remarkable strategies American writers have adopted to make sense of their place in culture.

Author : Fredric Jameson
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1992-01-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0822310902

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Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric Jameson Pdf

Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson’s most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of ”postmodernism”. Jameson’s inquiry looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from “high” art to “low” from market ideology to architecture, from painting to “punk” film, from video art to literature.

Author : Irving Sandler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 952 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780429981821

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Art Of The Postmodern Era by Irving Sandler Pdf

Sandler discusses the major and minor artists and their works; movements, ideas, attitudes, and styles; and the social and cultural context of the period. He covers post-modernist art theory, the art market, and consumer society. American and European art and artists are included.

Author : Fredric Jameson
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822378419

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Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric Jameson Pdf

Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson’s most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of ”postmodernism”. Jameson’s inquiry looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from “high” art to “low” from market ideology to architecture, from painting to “punk” film, from video art to literature.

Author : Jean-François Lyotard
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 46,5 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 : Boris Groys,Misko Suvakovic,Peter Gyorgy,Gerardo Mosquera,Minglu Gao
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520233348

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Postmodernism and the Postsocialist Condition by Boris Groys,Misko Suvakovic,Peter Gyorgy,Gerardo Mosquera,Minglu Gao Pdf

The Berlin Wall was coming down, the Soviet Union was dissolving, Communist China was well on its way down the capitalist path. Artists, seeing it all first-hand, responded with a revolution of their own. What form this revolution took emerges in this volume.

Author : Tim Woods
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1999-08-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 0719052114

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Beginning Postmodernism by Tim Woods Pdf

"Postmodernism" has become the buzzword of contemporary society. Yet it remains baffling in its variety of definitions, contexts and associations. Beginning Postmodernism aims to offer clear, accessible and step-by-step introductions to postmodernism across a wide range of subjects. It encourages readers to explore how the debates about postmodernism have emerged from basic philosophical and cultural ideas. With its emphasis firmly on "postmodernism in practice," the book contains exercises and questions designed to help readers understand and reflect upon a variety of positions in the following areas of contemporary culture: philosophy and cultural theory; architecture and concepts of space; visual art; sculpture and the design arts; popular culture and music; film, video and television culture; and the social sciences.

Author : Mike Featherstone
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1990-12-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848609013

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Consumer Culture and Postmodernism by Mike Featherstone Pdf

Implicit within claims that society itself is in some sense postmodern is an argument about the priority of consumption as a determinant of everyday life. In this view, mass media advertising and market dynamics lead to a constant search for new fashions, new styles, new sensations and experiences. Material goods are consumed as `communicators'; they are valued as signifiers of taste and of lifestyle. This volume examines the viability of this portrait of contemporary society. Mike Featherstone explores the roots of consumer culture, how it is defined and differentiated and the extent to which it represents the arrival of a `postmodern' world. He examines the theories of consumption and postmodernism among contemporary social theorists such as Bourdieu, Baudrillard, Lyotard and Jameson and relates these to the actual nature of contemporary consumer culture.

Author : Stephen R. C. Hicks
Publisher : Scholargy Publishing, Inc.
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1592476422

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Explaining Postmodernism by Stephen R. C. Hicks Pdf

Author : Christopher K. Coffman,Theophilus Savvas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-18
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781000289114

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After Postmodernism by Christopher K. Coffman,Theophilus Savvas Pdf

Several of American literature’s most prominent authors, and many of their most perceptive critics and reviewers, argue that fiction of the last quarter century has turned away from the tendencies of postmodernist writing. Yet, the nature of that turn, and the defining qualities of American fiction after postmodernism, remain less than clear. This volume identifies four prominent trends of the contemporary scene: the recovery of the real, a rethinking of historical engagement, a preoccupation with materiality, and a turn to the planetary. Readings of works by various leading figures, including Dave Eggers, Jonathan Franzen, A.M. Homes, Lance Olsen, Richard Powers, William T. Vollmann, and David Foster Wallace, support a variety of arguments about this recent revitalization of American literature. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Textual Practice.

Author : Vincent B. Leitch
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1996-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791430103

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Postmodernism - Local Effects, Global Flows by Vincent B. Leitch Pdf

Offers readable case studies in postmodern economics, philosophy, literary criticism, feminism, pedagogy, poetry, painting, historiography, and cultural studies, showing disorganization as characteristic of postmodern times.

Author : Mary K. Holland
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441159342

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Succeeding Postmodernism by Mary K. Holland Pdf

While critics collect around the question of what comes "after postmodernism," this book asks something different about recent American fiction: what if we are seeing not the end of postmodernism but its belated success? Succeeding Postmodernism examines how novels by DeLillo, Wallace, Danielewski, Foer and others conceptualize threats to individuals and communities posed by a poststructural culture of mediation and simulation, and possible ways of resisting the disaffected solipsism bred by that culture. Ultimately it finds that twenty-first century American fiction sets aside the postmodern problem of how language does or does not mean in order to raise the reassuringly retro question of what it can and does mean: it finds that novels today offer language as solution to the problem of language. Thus it suggests a new way of reading "antihumanist" late postmodern fiction, and a framework for understanding postmodern and twenty-first century fiction as participating in a long and newly enlivened tradition of humanism and realism in literature.

Author : Casey Michael Henry
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350064973

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New Media and the Transformation of Postmodern American Literature by Casey Michael Henry Pdf

How has American literature after postmodernism responded to the digital age? Drawing on insights from contemporary media theory, this is the first book to explore the explosion of new media technologies as an animating context for contemporary American literature. Casey Michael Henry examines the intertwining histories of new media forms since the 1970s and literary postmodernism and its aftermath, from William Gaddis's J R and Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho through to David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest. Through these histories, the book charts the ways in which print-based postmodern writing at first resisted new mass media forms and ultimately came to respond to them.

Author : Jason Gladstone,Andrew Hoberek,Daniel Worden
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781609384272

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Postmodern/Postwar and After by Jason Gladstone,Andrew Hoberek,Daniel Worden Pdf

Within the past ten years, the field of contemporary American literary studies has changed significantly. Following the turn of the twenty-first century and mounting doubts about the continued explanatory power of the category of “postmodernism,” new organizations have emerged, book series have been launched, journals have been created, and new methodologies, periodizations, and thematics have redefined the field. Postmodern/Postwar—and After aims to be a field-defining book—a sourcebook for the new and emerging critical terrain—that explores the postmodern/postwar period and what comes after. The first section of essays returns to the category of the “post-modern” and argues for the usefulness of key concepts and themes from postmodernism to the study of contemporary literature, or reevaluates postmodernism in light of recent developments in the field and historical and economic changes in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. These essays take the contemporary abandonments of postmodernism as an occasion to assess the current states of postmodernity. After that, the essays move to address the critical shift away from postmodernism as a description of the present, and toward a new sense of postmodernism as just one category among many that scholars can use to describe the recent past. The final section looks forward and explores the question of what comes after the postwar/postmodern. Taken together, these essays from leading and emerging scholars on the state of twenty-first-century literary studies provide a number of frameworks for approaching contemporary literature as influenced by, yet distinct from, postmodernism. The result is an indispensable guide that seeks to represent and understand the major overhauling of postwar American literary studies that is currently underway.

Author : Fredric Jameson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric Jameson Pdf