Understand Postmodernism
Understand that postmodernism rejects the idea of the autonomous individual and objectivity in favor of the anarchic collective and subjectivity. There is no one theory or perspective that defines everything; there are many sets of ideas ... [... more]
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Postmodernism and Popular Culture
 Cultural studies began as a radical political project, establishing the cultural centrality of everyday life and popular culture. In a postmodern world where old uncertainties are undermined and identities fragmented, the way forward for those working ... [... more]
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Biases Of The Intellectual Classes
Postmodernist intellectuals seem not to believe there is a culture-independent truthaEUR"which if true, would be a culture-independent truth (what else could it be?). In this way, postmodernism is destroyed by its own internal logic. Finally, ... [... more]
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The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism (Cambridge ...
Offering a comprehensive introduction to postmodernism, this Companion features examinations of the different aspects of postmodernist thought and culture that have had a significant effect on contemporary critical thought. Topics discussed by experts in ... [... more]
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Late Postmodernism: American Fiction at the Millennium
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 ... [... more]
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Postmodernism: A Graphic Guide to Cutting Edge Thinking ...
A controversial, complicated and difficult concept to grasp, postmodernism is nevertheless a thrilling intellectual adventure and Introducing Postmodernism provides the ideal guide. It helps unwravel and explain the ideas that have been used to definte ... [... more]
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Nothing Mat(t)ers: A Feminist Critique of Postmodernism
"An eloquent work. Somer Brodribb not only gives us a feminist critique of postmodernism with its masculinist predeterminants in existentialism, its Freudian footholdings and its Sadean values, but in the very form and texture of the critique, she ... [... more]
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John Barth And Postmodernism: Spatiality, Travel, ...
John Barth's eminence as a postmodernist is indisputable. However, much of the criticism dealing with his work is prompted by his own theories of "exhaustion" and subsequent "replenishment," leaving his writing relatively untouched by ... [... more]
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The Illusions of Postmodernism
In this brilliant critique, Terry Eagleton explores the origins and emergence of postmodernism, revealing its ambivalences and contradictions. Above all he speaks to a particular kind of student, or consumer, of popular "brands" of postmodern ... [... more]
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The Theater of Transformation: Postmodernism in American ...
The Theater of Transformation: Postmodernism in American Drama offers a fresh and innovative reading of the contemporary experimental American theater scene and navigates through the contested and contentious relationship between postmodernism and ... [... more]
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Constructive Postmodernism: Toward Renewal in Cultural ...
Divided into two parts, this book first examines the two distinct sources--constructive and deconstructive--of the postmodern attitude. The first, exemplified in the work of Derrida, Lyotard, and Baudrillard, is presented as a reaction against the ... [... more]
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From Modernism to Postmodernism: Concepts and Strategies ...
This systemic study discusses in its historical, cultural and aesthetic context the postmodern American novel between the years of 1960 and 1980. A general overview of the various definitions of postmodernism in philosophy, cultural theory and aesthetics ... [... more]
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