The Fiction of Postmodernity / / Stephen Baker.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Baker, Stephen,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; I The Broken Promise: Ideology and the Ageing of the New --; II Postmodern Reflections: Thinking after Marxism --; III Postmodernity and the Historical Novel --; IV Postmodern Political Fictions --; V Postmodern Inadequacies: Adorno contra Jameson --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781474464109; 9783110780468
• DOI: 10.1515/9781474464109
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Stephen Baker.

The Fiction of Postmodernity is a significant and accessible new study of the relation of postmodern fiction to theories of the postmodern. Contemporary works of fiction by novelists such as Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, Thomas Pynchon and Martin Amis are viewed in relation to critiques of the 'culture industry', analyses of the 'postmodern condition' and theories of simulacra. The work of influential theorists of the postmodern - such as Theodor Adorno, Jean-François Lyotard, Fredric Jameson and Jean Baudrillard - is explained and compared.The book offers descriptions of the postmodern from both the Marxist critical tradition and from the perspective of postmarxism. Key features in both these definitions are explained in relation to modernist and postmodern works of fiction. Issues relating to the postmodern representation of history and the development of a postmodern politics are also addressed in relation to works of contemporary fiction.Key FeaturesSubstantial readings of fiction by major contemporary authors (e.g. Thomas Pynchon, Salman Rushdie, Don DeLillo)Introduces influential theories of the postmodern (Fredric Jameson, Jean-François Lyotard, Jean Baudrillard)Analysis of the relationships of modernism and the avant-garde to postmodernismFocuses on the critical potential of postmodernism and postmodern fiction