Revisiting Postmodernism

Author : Terry Farrell,Adam Nathaniel Furman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000701418

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Revisiting Postmodernism offers an engaging, wide-ranging and highly illustrated account of postmodernism in architecture from its roots in the 1940s to its ongoing relevance today. This book invites readers to see Postmodernism in a new light: not just a style but a cultural phenomenon that embraces all areas of life and thrives on complexity and pluralism, in contrast to the strait-laced, single-style, top-down inclination of its predecessor, Modernism. While focusing on architecture, this book also explores aspects such as urban masterplanning, furniture design, art and literature. Looking at Postmodernism through the lens of examples from around the world, each chapter explores the movement in the UK on the one hand, and its international counterparts on the other, reflecting on the historical movement but also how postmodernism influences practices today. This book offers the insider’s view on postmodernism by the author, a recognised pioneer in the field of postmodern architecture and a prestigious and authoritative participant in the postmodern movement.

Author : Katrin Amian
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789401205986

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Rethinking Postmodernism(s) by Katrin Amian Pdf

Rethinking Postmodernism(s) revisits three historical sites of American literary postmodernism: the early postmodernism of Thomas Pynchon’s V. (1961), the emancipatory postmodernism of Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987), and the late or post-postmodernism of Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated (2002). For the first time, it confronts these texts with the pragmatist philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce, staging a conceptual dialogue between pragmatism and postmodernism that historicizes and recontextualizes customary readings of postmodern fiction. The book is a must-read for all interested in current reassessments of literary postmodernism, in new critical dialogues between seminal postmodern texts, and in recent attempts to theorize the ‘post-postmodern’ moment.

Author : Patricia Waugh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136321245

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Feminine Fictions by Patricia Waugh Pdf

‘Postmodernism’ and ‘feminism’ have become familiar terms since the 1960s, developing alongside one another and clearly sharing many strong points of contact. Why then have the critical debates arising out of these movements had so little to say about each other? Patricia Waugh addresses the relationship between feminist and postmodernist writing and theory through the insights of psychoanalysis and in the context of the development of modern fiction in Britain and America. She attempts to uncover the reasons why women writers have been excluded from the considerations of postmodern art. Her route takes her through the theorization of self offered by Freud and Lacan and on to the concept of subjectivity articulated by Kleinian and later object-relations psychoanalysts. She argues that much women’s writing has been inappropriately placed and interpreted within a predominantly formalist-orientated aesthetic and a post-Freudian/liberal, individualist conceptualization of subjectivity and artistic expression. This tendency has been intensified in discussions of postmodernism, and a new feminist aesthetic is thus badly needed. In the second part of the book Patricia Waugh analyses the work of six ‘traditional’ and six ‘experimental’ writers, challenging the restrictive definitions of ‘realist’, ‘modernist’, ‘postmodernist’ in the light of the theoretical position developed in part one. Authors covered include: Woolf (viewed as a postmodernist ‘precursor’ rather than a ‘high’ modernist), Drabble, Tyler, Plath, Brookner, Paley, Lessing, Weldon, Atwood, Walker, Spark, Russ, and Piercy.

Author : Patricia Waugh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0415526426

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Author : Neil Edward Brooks,Josh Toth
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789042021624

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The Mourning After by Neil Edward Brooks,Josh Toth Pdf

Have we moved beyond postmodernism? Did postmodernism lose its oppositional value when it became a cultural dominant? While focusing on questions such as these, the articles in this collection consider the possibility that the death of a certain version of postmodernism marks a renewed attempt to re-negotiate and perhaps re-embrace many of the cultural, literary and theoretical assumptions that postmodernism seemly denied outright. Including contributions from some of the leading scholars in the field - N. Katherine Hayles, John D. Caputo, Paul Maltby, Jane Flax, among others - this collection ultimately comes together to perform a certain work of mourning. Through their explorations of this current epistemological shift in narrative and theoretical production, these articles work to "get over" postmodernism while simultaneously celebrating a certain postmodern inheritance, an inheritance that can offer us important avenues to understanding and affecting contemporary culture and society.

Author : Stylianos Giamarelos
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781800081338

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Resisting Postmodern Architecture by Stylianos Giamarelos Pdf

Since its first appearance in 1981, critical regionalism has enjoyed a celebrated worldwide reception. The 1990s increased its pertinence as an architectural theory that defends the cultural identity of a place resisting the homogenising onslaught of globalisation. Today, its main principles (such as acknowledging the climate, history, materials, culture and topography of a specific place) are integrated in architects’ education across the globe. But at the same time, the richer cross-cultural history of critical regionalism has been reduced to schematic juxtapositions of ‘the global’ with ‘the local’. Retrieving both the globalising branches and the overlooked cross-cultural roots of critical regionalism, Resisting Postmodern Architecture resituates critical regionalism within the wider framework of debates around postmodern architecture, the diverse contexts from which it emerged, and the cultural media complex that conditioned its reception. In so doing, it explores the intersection of three areas of growing historical and theoretical interest: postmodernism, critical regionalism and globalisation. Based on more than 50 interviews and previously unpublished archival material from six countries, the book transgresses existing barriers to integrate sources in other languages into anglophone architectural scholarship. In so doing, it shows how the ‘periphery’ was not just a passive recipient, but also an active generator of architectural theory and practice. Stylianos Giamarelos challenges long-held ‘central’ notions of supposedly ‘international’ discourses of the recent past, and outlines critical regionalism as an unfinished project apposite for the 21st century on the fronts of architectural theory, history and historiography.

Author : Lucas Hollister
Publisher : Contemporary French and Franco
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781786942180

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Beyond Return by Lucas Hollister Pdf

In Beyond Return, Lucas Hollister examines the political orientations of fictions which 'return' to forms that have often been considered sub-literary, regressive, outdated or decadent, and suggests new ways of reading contemporary adventure novels, radical noir novels, postmodernist mysteries, war novels and dystopian fictions.

Author : Lidia Klein
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000860214

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Political Postmodernisms by Lidia Klein Pdf

Political Postmodernisms shows how sites outside of Western Europe and North America undermine an established narrative of architecture theory and history. It focuses specifically on postmodern architecture, which is traditionally understood as embodying the flippant and apolitical aesthetics of capitalist affluence. By investigating postmodern architecture’s manifestations in the unlikely settings of Chile during the neoliberal dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet and Poland during the late socialist Polish People’s Republic, the book argues for a new account that incorporates the political roles it plays when seen in a global perspective. Political Postmodernisms has three goals. First, it challenges the familiar narrative regarding postmodern architecture as following the “cultural logic of late capitalism” (Fredric Jameson) or as a socially conservative project (Jürgen Habermas). Second, it fills in portions of Chilean and Polish architectural history that have been neglected by Chilean and Polish architectural historians themselves. Third, Political Postmodernisms shows how architecture can work as a political form – serving propagandistic purposes and functioning as part of oppositional projects. The book is projected to be of use to students and scholars in global modern and contemporary architecture history, history of urban planning, East European Studies, and Latin American Studies.

Author : John M. Burger,Charles F. Webber,Patricia Klinck
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781402060229

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Intelligent Leadership by John M. Burger,Charles F. Webber,Patricia Klinck Pdf

This book offers cutting edge thinking on effective leadership processes. It pulls together the thinking of 16 educators with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all of whom hold keen interests in harnessing the forces that can improve educational opportunity for students. The book is intended to stimulate the thinking of every educator who aspires to influence decision-making and to provide direction to their school, district or institution.

Author : James K. A. Smith
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441200396

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Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? (The Church and Postmodern Culture) by James K. A. Smith Pdf

The philosophies of French thinkers Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault form the basis for postmodern thought and are seemingly at odds with the Christian faith. However, James K. A. Smith claims that their ideas have been misinterpreted and actually have a deep affinity with central Christian claims. Each chapter opens with an illustration from a recent movie and concludes with a case study considering recent developments in the church that have attempted to respond to the postmodern condition, such as the "emerging church" movement. These case studies provide a concrete picture of how postmodern ideas can influence the way Christians think and worship. This significant book, winner of a Christianity Today 2007 Book Award, avoids philosophical jargon and offers fuller explanation where needed. It is the first book in the Church and Postmodern Culture series, which provides practical applications for Christians engaged in ministry in a postmodern world.

Author : Jonathan Bignell
Publisher : Aakar Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8189833162

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Postmodern Media Culture by Jonathan Bignell Pdf

The book deals with film, television, information technology, consumer products and popular literature, and assesses challenges to conceptions of the postmodern based on gender, race and religion.

Author : Gene Edward Veith (Jr.)
Publisher : Concordia Publishing House
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105016225596

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Modern Fascism by Gene Edward Veith (Jr.) Pdf

With fascist ideology making a comeback today, the author proposes conservative Christian responses as the best antidote for overcoming them.

Author : Hugh Grady
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107195806

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John Donne and Baroque Allegory by Hugh Grady Pdf

Provides a new appreciation of John Donne through the lens of Walter Benjamin's critical theory of baroque allegory.

Author : Katrin Amian
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789042024151

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Rethinking Postmodernism(s) by Katrin Amian Pdf

Rethinking Postmodernism(s) revisits three historical sites of American literary postmodernism: the early postmodernism of Thomas Pynchon's V. (1961), the emancipatory postmodernism of Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987), and the late or post-postmodernism of Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated (2002). For the first time, it confronts these texts with the pragmatist philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce, staging a conceptual dialogue between pragmatism and postmodernism that historicizes and recontextualizes customary readings of postmodern fiction. The book is a must-read for all interested in current reassessments of literary postmodernism, in new critical dialogues between seminal postmodern texts, and in recent attempts to theorize the 'post-postmodern' moment.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789401204064

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The Mourning After by Anonim Pdf

Have we moved beyond postmodernism? Did postmodernism lose its oppositional value when it became a cultural dominant? While focusing on questions such as these, the articles in this collection consider the possibility that the death of a certain version of postmodernism marks a renewed attempt to re-negotiate and perhaps re-embrace many of the cultural, literary and theoretical assumptions that postmodernism seemly denied outright. Including contributions from some of the leading scholars in the field – N. Katherine Hayles, John D. Caputo, Paul Maltby, Jane Flax, among others – this collection ultimately comes together to perform a certain work of mourning. Through their explorations of this current epistemological shift in narrative and theoretical production, these articles work to “get over” postmodernism while simultaneously celebrating a certain postmodern inheritance, an inheritance that can offer us important avenues to understanding and affecting contemporary culture and society.