Postmodernism and the Contemporary Novel : : A Reader / / Bran Nicol.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Nicol, Bran,
• MitwirkendeR: Appiah, Kwame Anthony,; Bakhtin, Mikhail,; Barth, John,; Barthes, Roland,; Baudrillard, Jean,; Docherty, Thomas,; Eco, Umberto,; Fiedler, Leslie A.,; Graff, Gerald,; Haraway, Donna,; Harvey, David,; Hassan, lhab,; Hollinger, Veronica,; Hooks, Bell,; Howe, Irving,; Hutcheon, Linda,; Huyssen, Andreas,; Jameson, Fredric,; Jencks, Charles,; Lodge, David,; Lyotard, Jean-Frangois,; Maltby, Paul,; McHale, Brian,; Morris, Meaghan,; O’Donnell, Patrick,; Sontag, Susan,; Spanos, William V.,; Tani, Stephano,; Waugh, Patricia,; Žižek, Slavoj,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (496 p.)

Postmodernism and the Contemporary Novel: A Reader is the first book to collect together the most important contributions to the theory of the postmodern novel over the last forty years and to guide readers through the complex questions and wide-ranging debates: what are its characteristics? Which novels and authors belong to the category? Does it even deserve to be a category on its own? From which traditions does it emerge? How does it relate to previous forms of the novel and to other aspects of postmodern culture?While discussion of the contemporary novel has been dominated by the question of postmodernism, developments in contemporary fiction are also central to the wider debate about postmodernism. Fiction is referred to frequently in the work of postmodernist thinkers not explicitly concerned with literature, like Baudrillard, Lyotard, and Haraway. The selections in this book will also enable readers to place the theory of postmodern fiction in a broader intellectual and cultural context.Key FeaturesAnalyses postmodern fiction from both thematic and formal perspectives, giving in-depth coverage to key features and issues such as metafiction, the relation to modernism, history, and politicsFeatures work by some of the most important theorists and critics of the last few decades, such as Ihab Hassan, Jean Baudrillard, Linda Hutcheon, and Brian McHaleProvides a sense of historical, social and cultural context to the debate about postmodernism in fictionGives ample coverage to some of the most compelling issues raised in relation to postmodern fiction in recent years, such as science and new technologies, the cyborg, 'race' and gender

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT POSTMODERNISM -- PART I THE POSTMODERN CONDITION -- INTRODUCTION -- MAPPING POSTMODERNISM -- 1 THE CULTURAL LOGIC OF LATE CAPITALISM’ -- 2 ‘TIME-SPACE COMPRESSION AND THE POSTMODERN CONDITION’ -- 3 ‘MAPPING THE POSTMODERN’ -- NARRATIVE, KNOWLEDGE, REPRESENTATION -- 4 FROM THE POSTMODERN CONDITION: A REPORT ON KNOWLEDGE -- 5 THE PRECESSION OF SIMULACRA’ -- IRONY AND ‘DOUBLE CODING’ 6 ‘POSTMODERNISM, IRONY, THE ENJOYABLE’ -- 6 ‘POSTMODERNISM, IRONY, THE ENJOYABLE’ -- 7 ‘POST-MODERNISM DEFINED’ -- DIAGNOSING POSTMODERNISM -- 8 ‘YOU MAY!’ -- PART II THE POSTMODERN TU RN -- INTRODUCTION -- 9 THE LITERATURE OF EXHAUSTION’ -- 10 ‘MASS SOCIETY AND POSTMODERN FICTION’ -- 11 ‘ONE CULTURE AND THE NEW SENSIBILITY’ -- 12 ‘CROSS THE BORDER - CLOSE THAT GAP: POST-MODERNISM’ -- 13 THE DETECTIVE AND THE BOUNDARY: SOME NOTES ON THE POSTMODERN LITERARY IMAGINATION’ -- 14 ‘POSTmodernISM: A PARACRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY’ -- 15 THE MYTH OF THE POSTMODERN BREAKTHROUGH’ -- PART III POSTMODERN POETICS -- INTRODUCTION -- THE NOVEL -- 16 FROM S/Z -- 17 FROM ‘DISCOURSE IN THE NOVEL’ -- 18 FROM METAFICTION -- TOWARDS A POETICS OF POSTMODERN FICTION -- 19 ‘POSTMODERNIST FICTION’ -- 20 ‘CHANGE OF DOMINANT FROM MODERNIST TO POSTMODERNIST WRITING’ -- 21 FROM A POETICS OF POSTMODERNISM -- POSTMODERN GENRE -- 22 FROM THE DOOMED DETECTIVE -- PART IV POSTMODERN POLITICS -- INTRODUCTION -- POLITICS AND FICTIONALITY -- 23 FROM THE POLITICS OF POSTMODERNISM -- 24 TH E ETHICS OF ALTERITY’ -- 25 FROM DISSIDENT POSTMODERNISTS -- FEMINISM AND POSTMODERNISM -- 26 ‘FEMINISM, READING, POSTMODERNISM’ -- 27 ‘A MANIFESTO FOR CYBORGS: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIALIST FEMINISM IN THE 1980s’ -- IS THE ‘POST’ IN POSTCOLONIAL THE SAME AS THE ‘POST’ IN POSTMODERN? -- 28 ‘POSTMODERN BLACKNESS’ -- 29 THE POSTCOLONIAL AND THE POSTMODERN’ -- TECHNOLOGY AND PARANOIA -- 30 ‘CYBERNETIC DECONSTRUCTIONS: CYBERPUNK AND POSTMODERNISM’ -- 31 ‘ENGENDERING PARANOIA IN CONTEMPORARY NARRATIVE’ -- NAMES INDEX -- SUBJECT INDEX