Late Postmodernism

Author : J. Green
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005-05-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781403980403

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Late Postmodernism by J. Green Pdf

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 : 55,5 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 : 49,5 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 : 49,9 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 : 54,6 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 : Jeffrey Nealon
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804783217

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Post-Postmodernism by Jeffrey Nealon Pdf

Post-Postmodernism begins with a simple premise: we no longer live in the world of "postmodernism," famously dubbed "the cultural logic of late capitalism" by Fredric Jameson in 1984. Far from charting any simple move "beyond" postmodernism since the 1980s, though, this book argues that we've experienced an intensification of postmodern capitalism over the past decades, an increasing saturation of the economic sphere into formerly independent segments of everyday cultural life. If "fragmentation" was the preferred watchword of postmodern America, "intensification" is the dominant cultural logic of our contemporary era. Post-Postmodernism surveys a wide variety of cultural texts in pursuing its analyses—everything from the classic rock of Black Sabbath to the post-Marxism of Antonio Negri, from considerations of the corporate university to the fare at the cineplex, from reading experimental literature to gambling in Las Vegas, from Badiou to the undergraduate classroom. Insofar as cultural realms of all kinds have increasingly been overcoded by the languages and practices of economics, Nealon aims to construct a genealogy of the American present, and to build a vocabulary for understanding the relations between economic production and cultural production today—when American-style capitalism, despite its recent battering, seems nowhere near the point of obsolescence. Post-postmodern capitalism is seldom late but always just in time. As such, it requires an updated conceptual vocabulary for diagnosing and responding to our changed situation.

Author : Stephen R. C. Hicks
Publisher : Scholargy Publishing, Inc.
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1592476422

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Explaining Postmodernism by Stephen R. C. Hicks Pdf

Author : Stuart Jeffries
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781788738224

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Everything, All the Time, Everywhere by Stuart Jeffries Pdf

A radical new history of a dangerous idea Post-Modernity is the creative destruction that has shattered our present times into fragments. It dynamited modernism which had dominated the western world for most of the 20th century. Post-modernism stood for everything modernism rejected: fun, exuberance, irresponsibility. But beneath its glitzy surface, post-modernism had a dirty secret: it was the fig leaf for a rapacious new kind of capitalism. It was also the forcing ground of the 'post truth', by means of which western values got turned upside down. But where do these ideas come from and how have they impacted on the world? In his brilliant history of a dangerous idea, Stuart Jeffries tells a narrative that starts in the early 1970s and continue to today. He tells this history through a riotous gallery that includes David Bowie, the Ipod, Frederic Jameson, the demolition of Pruit-Igoe, Madonna, Post-Fordism, Jeff Koon's 'Rabbit', Deleuze and Guattari, the Nixon Shock, The Bowery series, Judith Butler, Las Vegas, Margaret Thatcher, Grand Master Flash, I Love Dick, the RAND Corporation, the Sex Pistols, Princess Diana, the Musee D'Orsay, Grand Theft Auto, Perry Anderson, Netflix, 9/11 We are today scarcely capable of conceiving politics as a communal activity because we have become habituated to being consumers rather than citizens. Politicians treat us as consumers to whom they must deliver. Can we do anything else than suffer from buyer's remorse?

Author : Tim Woods
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,6 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 : Boris Groys,Misko Suvakovic,Peter Gyorgy,Gerardo Mosquera,Minglu Gao
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,6 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 : Mike Featherstone
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 51,8 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 : Christopher K. Coffman,Theophilus Savvas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,5 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 : Magali Sarfatti Larson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780520413979

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Behind the Postmodern Facade by Magali Sarfatti Larson Pdf

Magali Larson's comprehensive study explores how architecture "happens" and what has become of the profession in the postmodern era. Drawing from extensive interviews with pivotal architects—from Philip Johnson, who was among the first to introduce European modernism to America, to Peter Eisenman, identified with a new "deconstructionist" style—she analyzes the complex tensions that exist between economic interest, professional status, and architectural product. She investigates the symbolic awards and recognition accorded by prestigious journals and panels, exposing the inner workings of a profession in a precarious social position. Larson captures the struggles around status, place, and power as architects seek to redefine their very purpose in contemporary America. The author's novel approach in synthesizing sociological research and theory proposes nothing less than a new cultural history of architecture. This is a ground-breaking contribution to the study of culture and the sociology of knowledge, as well as to architectural and urban history. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993 with a paperback edition in 1995.

Author : Vincent B. Leitch
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,9 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 : 46,8 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.