Postmodernism A Reader,9780340573815

Postmodernism A Reader

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ISBN13: 9780340573815
ISBN10: 0340573813
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1995-02-15
Publisher(s): Bloomsbury Academic
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Summary

Postmodernism provides a collection of the incessantly cited but nevertheless still widely-scattered critical texts on postmodernism and literary theory. It includes all the "classics" as well as some less obvious, though no less stimulating, choices. An introduction and commentary by Pat Waugh provides essential information and offers a context within which to view the chosen texts.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii
Introduction 1(10)
Section One: Modernism and Postmodernism
Anthony Giddens, `Modernism and Postmodernism'
11(3)
Alan Wilde, `Modernism and the Aesthetics of Crisis'
14(10)
Section Two: Postmodernism and Literary History
Introduction
22(2)
Irving Howe, `Mass Society and Postmodern Fiction'
24(7)
Leslie Fiedler, `Cross the Border - Close the Gap'
31(17)
Susan Sontag, `Against Interpretation'
48(8)
Frank Kermode, From A Sense of an Ending
56(4)
Ihab Hassan, From Paracriticisms
60(18)
William Spanos, `The Detective and the Boundary: Some Notes on the Postmodern Literary Imagination'
78(11)
Section Three: The Critique of Enlightened Modernity: Philosophical Precursors
Introduction
87(2)
Immanuel Kant, `An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?'
89(7)
Michael Foucault, `What is Enlightenment?'
96(12)
Friedrich Nietzsche, From Twilight of the Idols/The Antichrist
108(9)
Section Four: Postmodern Theory: The Current Debate
Introduction
113(4)
Jean-Francois Lyotard, `Answering the Question: What is Postmodernism?'
117(8)
Fredric Jameson, `Periodising the Sixties'
125(27)
Terry Eagleton, `Capitalism, Modernism and Postmodernism'
152(8)
Jurgen Habermas, `Modernity - An Incomplete Project'
160(10)
Richard Rorty, From Contingency, Irony and Solidarity
170(16)
Jean Baudrillard, From Simulations
186(3)
Patricia Waugh, `Modernism, Postmodernism, Feminism: Gender and Autonomy Theory'
189(17)
Section Five: Reading Postmodern Artefacts
Introduction
205(1)
Linda Hutcheon, From A Poetics of Postmodernism
206(5)
Brian McHale, From Postmodernist Fiction
211(8)
Bibliography 219(6)
Index 225

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