Peter Brooker (United Kingdom. University of Nottingham)

Modernism/Postmodernism

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Produktbeschreibung

Part of the Longman Critical Readers series, which explores the theoretical issues and conflicts embodied in the essays selected and locates areas of disagreement between positions. This text examines modernist and postmodernist theories in literary criticism.

Produktdetails

• Longman Critical Readers
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 356g
• ISBN-13: 9780582063570
• ISBN-10: 0582063574
• Artikelnr.: 36413618

Autorenporträt

Peter Brooker

Inhaltsangabe

General Editors' Preface Acknowledgements Editor's Preface Introduction: ReconstructionPart One: Modernist postitions 1. George Lukaacs
from ". Bertolt Brecht from 'The Popular and the Reaslistic.' 2. Walter Benjamin
from 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.' 3. Theodor Adorno 'Letter to Walter Benjamin.' 4. Peter Burger
'Avant-Gaarde and Engagement.' Repositioning Modernism 5. Marshall Berman
'The 20th Century: the Halo and the Highway.' 6. Raymond Williams
'The Metropolis and the Emergence of Modernism.' 7. Jean Radford
from 'Coming to Terms: Dorothy Richardson
Modernism and Women.' 8. Houston A Baker
from "Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance." 9. Laleen Jayamanne
Geeta Kapur and Yvonne Rainer
from 'Discussing Modernity'
Third World and "The Man who Envied Women." Part Two: Postmodern Narratives 10. Jurgen Habermas
'Modernity - and Incomplete Project.' 11. Jean-Francois Lyotard
'Answering the Question: What is Postmodernism?' 12. Jean Baudrillard
from 'Simulacra and Simulations.' 13. Frederic Jameson
'Postmodernism and Consumer Society.' Popular Capitalism and Popular Culture 14. David Harvey
from 'The Constitution of Postmodernity'. An Enquiry into the Origins of Social Change. 15. Ian Chambers
Contanimation
Coincidence and Collusion
Pop Music
Urban and the Avant-Garde. A Feminist Postmodernism? 16. Julia Kristeva
'Postmodernism?' 17. Laura Kipnis
from Feminism: the Politcal Conscience of Postmodernism?' Black Culture and Postmodernism 18. Cornel West from 'An Interview with Cornell West Anders Stephanson.' Post Modernist Fiction 19. Umberto Eco
'Postmodernism
Irony
the Enjoyable.' 20. Linda Hutcheon
'Telling Stories: Fiction and History.' 21. Carlos Fuentes
'Words Apart.' Notes on Authors Further Reading Index