Graham Matthews

Ethics and Desire in the Wake of Postmodernism (eBook, PDF)

Contemporary Satire

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

What is the significance of writing in the wake of postmodernism? The previous decade has seen a growing interest in criticism of postmodern ethics and aesthetics from theorists and writers. This book begins to answer what art form or critical methodology might take its place.

Exploring the work of six contemporary novelists - Bret Easton Ellis, J.G. Ballard, Will Self, Michel Houellebecq, Tama Janowitz and Chuck Palahniuk - Ethics and Desire in the Wake of Postmodernism delivers a series of interventions into six key areas of contemporary debate: fear, nihilism, revolution, ethics, enjoyment and feminism. The book goes on to develop an innovative critical methodology which reinvigorates the ability of art and literature to engage in ideological critique. Rather than valorising separatism, plurality or indeterminacy, this approach delivers a critical framework which enacts a radical de-centering of the fundamental coordinates of contemporary society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441134394
• Artikelnr.: 38302124

Autorenporträt

Graham Matthews is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Newcastle
University,
UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction \ 1. "You Do an Awfully Good
Impression of Yourself" - Fear and Uncertainty in Bret Easton Ellis' Lunar
Park
\ 2. Nihilism and the Sublime in Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club \ 3. Violence
and
the Multitude in J.G. Ballard's Millennium People \ 4. "Evil is to Morality
as
Magnolia is to Paint" Ethics and Aesthetics in Will Self's Dorian: An
Imitation
\ 5. Sex Tourism and the Politics of Enjoyment in Michel Houellebecq's
Platform
\ 6. Feminism, Satire and Critique in the Work of Tama Janowitz \
Bibliography
\ Index