Postmodernism and the Contemporary Novel : : A Reader /

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

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 n...

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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
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource (496 p.)
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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

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