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Author : Brian McHale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 47,5 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 : 54,7 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 : Bran Nicol
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139483117
Postmodern fiction presents a challenge to the reader: instead of enjoying it passively, the reader has to work to understand its meanings, to think about what fiction is, and to question their own responses. Yet this very challenge makes postmodern writing so much fun to read and rewarding to study. Unlike most introductions to postmodernism and fiction, this book places the emphasis on literature rather than theory. It introduces the most prominent British and American novelists associated with postmodernism, from the 'pioneers', Beckett, Borges and Burroughs, to important post-war writers such as Pynchon, Carter, Atwood, Morrison, Gibson, Auster, DeLillo, and Ellis. Designed for students and clearly written, this Introduction explains the preoccupations, styles and techniques that unite postmodern authors. Their work is characterized by a self-reflexive acknowledgement of its status as fiction, and by the various ways in which it challenges readers to question common-sense and commonplace assumptions about literature.
Author : Bran Nicol
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,5 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 : Kevin J. Vanhoozer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003-07-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521793955
This introductory 2003 guide offers examples of different types of contemporary theology and Christian doctrine in relationship to postmodernity.
Author : Kenneth Gloag
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521151573
What is postmodernism? How does it relate to music? This introduction clarifies the concept, providing ways of interpreting postmodern music.
Author : Pericles Lewis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-05-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521828093
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Author : John N. Duvall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 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 : Paula Geyh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,5 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 : Walter Kalaidjian
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 052182995X
Original essays by twelve distinguished international scholars offer critical overviews of the major genres, literary culture, and social contexts that define the current state of scholarship. This Companion also features a chronology of key events and publication dates covering the first half of the twentieth century in the United States. The introductory reference guide concludes with a current bibliography of further reading organized by chapter topics.
Author : Lisann Anders
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 43,9 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 : John N. Duvall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 54,6 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 : Nancy E. Riley,James McCarthy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003-07-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521533643
Demography has developed into a remarkably coherent field and now stands as a firmly established discipline with strong ties to policy-making agencies. However, in recent years there has been increasing recognition within demography of the limits of existing theories and methods, particularly its absence of a strong critical tradition and its isolation from recent theoretical developments in other social sciences. In this study, Nancy Riley and James McCarthy use the lens of postmodernism to structure a critical analysis of the field of demography. Paying particular attention to the fundamental epistemologies and methodologies that currently underlie the field, they explore how postmodern perspectives might serve to energize the field and how demography could be enhanced by the introduction of insights from other social sciences. Drawing on examples of new kinds of research in demography and related fields, this is an important new book that seeks to reinvigorate the field of demography.
Author : Philippa Berry,Andrew Wernick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780415066389
A collection of internationally recognised scholars address the postmodern shake-up of theory, culture and politics, which has led to a new encounter between the humanities and the discourses of religion.
Author : Peter Howarth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139502320
Modernist poems are some of the twentieth-century's major cultural achievements, but they are also hard work to read. This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. In-depth chapters on Pound, Eliot, Yeats and the American modernists outline how formal experiments take on the new world of mass media, democracies, total war and changing religious belief. Chapters on the avant-gardes and later modernism examine how their styles shift as they try to re-make the community of readers. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English.
