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Author : Bran Nicol
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521861571
A lucid exploration of the key features of postmodernism and the most important authors from Beckett to DeLillo.
Author : Brian McHale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107021259
This Introduction surveys the full spectrum of postmodern culture, from architecture and visual art to fiction, poetry, and drama.
Author : Steven Connor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521648408
The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism offers a comprehensive introduction to postmodernism. The Companion examines the different aspects of postmodernist thought and culture that have had a significant impact on contemporary cultural production and thinking. Topics discussed by experts in the field include postmodernism's relation to modernity, and its significance and relevance to literature, film, law, philosophy, architecture, religion and modern cultural studies. The volume also includes a useful guide to further reading and a chronology. This is an essential aid for students and teachers from a range of disciplines interested in postmodernism in all its incarnations. Accessible and comprehensive, this Companion addresses the many issues surrounding this elusive, enigmatic and often controversial topic.
Author : Paula Geyh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107103443
This Companion is an authoritative, comprehensive, and accessible guide to the key works, genres, and movements of postmodern American fiction.
Author : John N. Duvall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521196314
A comprehensive 2011 guide to the genres, historical contexts, cultural diversity and major authors of American fiction since the Second World War.
Author : John N. Duvall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139828086
With the publication of his seminal novel White Noise, Don DeLillo was elevated into the pantheon of great American writers. His novels are admired and studied for their narrative technique, political themes, and their prophetic commentary on the cultural crises affecting contemporary America. In an age dominated by the image, DeLillo's fiction encourages the reader to think historically about such matters as the Cold War, the assassination of President Kennedy, threats to the environment, and terrorism. This Companion charts the shape of DeLillo's career, his relation to twentieth-century aesthetics, and his major themes. It also provides in-depth assessments of his best-known novels, White Noise, Libra, and Underworld, which have become required reading not only for students of American literature, but for all interested in the history and the future of American culture.
Author : Deborah Cartmell,Imelda Whelehan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139827553
This Companion offers a multi-disciplinary approach to literature on film and television. Writers are drawn from different backgrounds to consider broad topics, such as the issue of adaptation from novels and plays to the screen, canonical and popular literature, fantasy, genre and adaptations for children. There are also case studies, such as Shakespeare, Jane Austen, the nineteenth-century novel and modernism, which allow the reader to place adaptations of the work of writers within a wider context. An interview with Andrew Davies, whose work includes Pride and Prejudice (1995) and Bleak House (2005), reveals the practical choices and challenges that face the professional writer and adaptor. The Companion as a whole provides an extensive survey of an increasingly popular field of study.
Author : Lisann Anders
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781527552166
We cannot imagine our world without its digital mirror anymore. We communicate to others in mediated ways and even create ourselves through our technological devices, presenting an imagined version of us to the outside world. This book is concerned with precisely this imagination of the self in an increasing digitalized society, going back to the beginning of our digital age, to the peak of postmodernism at the end of the 20th century. Looking at urban fiction from the 1980s to the early 2000s, the journey of fictional protagonists through the streets of (mostly) New York City reveals an anxiety about the loss of self in the virtual, culminating in violence and destruction. From Auster and Ellis to Palahniuk and DeLillo, this book highlights how an increasingly distanced communication triggers the imagination of violence, making it an insightful read for scholars and aficionados of city literature, postmodernism, and communication alike.
Author : Stacey Olster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108394093
The Cambridge Introduction to Contemporary American Fiction explores fiction written over the last thirty years in the context of the profound political, historical, and cultural changes that have distinguished the contemporary period. Focusing on both established and emerging writers - and with chapters devoted to the American historical novel, regional realism, the American political novel, the end of the Cold War and globalization, 9/11, borderlands and border identities, race, and the legacy of postmodern aesthetics - this Introduction locates contemporary American fiction at the intersection of a specific time and long-standing traditions. In the process, it investigates the entire concept of what constitutes an “American” author while exploring the vexed, yet resilient, nature of what the concept of home has come to signify in so much writing today. This wide-ranging study will be invaluable to students, instructors, and general readers alike.
Author : David Glover,Scott McCracken
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521513371
An overview of popular literature from the early nineteenth century to the present day from a historical and comparative perspective.
Author : Laurel Brett
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781443898089
This groundbreaking study looks at the evolution of the war novel, tracing the movement from the modernist novel that followed World War I to the postmodernist novel that followed World War II. The book uses close readings of iconic literary texts such as Catch-22 and Slaughterhouse-Five to discover the origins of the postmodern zeitgeist. It concludes that postmodern narratives employing devices such as collage and pastiche and the fragmentation of the postmodern protagonist are a reaction to the vast scale of technological warfare and its accompanying atrocities. This study also looks at Vietnam War novels, such as the novels of Tim O’Brien and demonstrates their debt to post-World War II novels and the postmodern zeitgeist. It concludes with an investigation of recent texts, and asks if the postmodern novel is being replaced by older, more traditional narrative strategies, or is simply on hiatus and will return to influence in future texts.
Author : Theo d'. Haen,Theo d' Haen,Johannes Willem Bertens
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 9051836538
Author : Paul Smethurst
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9042015136
The Postmodern Chronotope is an innovative interdisciplinary study of the contemporary. It will be of special interest to anyone interested in relations between postmodernism, geography and contemporary fiction. Some claim that postmodernism questions history and historical bases to culture; some say it is about loss of affect, loss of depth models, and superficiality; others claim it follows from the conditions of post-industrial society; and others cite commodification of place, Disneyfication, simulation and post-tourist spectacle as evidence that postmodernism is wedded to late capitalism. Whatever postmodernism is, or turns out to have been, it is bound up in rethinking and reworking space and time, and Paul Smethurst's intervention here is to introduce the postmodern chronotope as a term through which these spatial and temporal shifts might be apprehended. The postmodern chronotope constitutes a postmodern world-view and postmodern way of seeing. In a sense it is the natural successor to a modernist way of seeing defined through cubism, montage and relativity. The book is arranged as follows: - Part 1 is an interdisciplinary study casting a wide net across a range of cultural, social and scientific activity, from chaos theory to cinema, from architecture to performance art, from IT to tourism. - Part 2 offers original readings of a selection of postmodern novels, including Graham Swift's Waterland and Out of this World, Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor and First Light, Alasdair Gray's Lanark, J. M. Coetzee's Foe, Marina Warner's Indigo, Caryl Phillips' Cambridge, and Don DeLillo's The Names and Ratner's Star.
Author : Lisa Downing
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521682991
French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault is essential reading for students in departments of literature, history, sociology and cultural studies. His work on the institutions of mental health and medicine, the history of systems of knowledge, literature and literary theory, criminality and the prison system, and sexuality, has had a profound and enduring impact across the humanities and social sciences. This introductory book, written for students, offers in-depth critical and contextual perspectives on all of Foucault's major published works. It provides ways in to understanding Foucault's key concepts of subjectivity, discourse, and power and explains the problems of translation encountered in reading Foucault in English. The book also explores the critical reception of Foucault's works and acquaints the reader with the afterlives of some of his theories, particularly his influence on feminist and queer studies. This book offers the ideal introduction to a famously complex, controversial and important thinker.
Author : Edward James,Farah Mendlesohn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003-11-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521016576
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