The mourning after : : attending the wake of postmodernism / / edited by Neil Brooks and Josh Toth.

Have we moved beyond postmodernism? Did postmodernism lose its oppositional value when it became a cultural dominant? While focusing on questions such as these, the articles in this collection consider the possibility that the death of a certain version of postmodernism marks a renewed attempt to re...

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Superior document:Postmodern studies ; 40
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Year of Publication:2007
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Postmodern studies ; 40.
Physical Description:1 online resource (319 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction: A Wake and Renewed? / Josh Toth and Neil Brooks
  • Postmodernism in a Fundamentalist Arena / Paul Maltby
  • Postmodernism in the Age of Distracting Discourses / Robert McLaughlin
  • Attending to Suffering in/at the Wake of Postmodernism / Jennifer Geddes
  • Soul Service: Foucault’s “Care of the Self” as Politics and Ethics / Jane Flax
  • Mood Swings: The Aesthetics of Ambient Emergence / N. Katherine Hayles and Todd Gannon
  • New York, Los Angeles, and Other Toxicities: Revisiting Postmodernism in Rushdie’s Fury and Shalimar the Clown / Gavin Keulks
  • Nothing to Write Home About: Impossible Reception in Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves / William G. Little
  • Turncoat: Why Jonathan Franzen Finally Said “No” to Po-Mo / Robert Rebein
  • Serving Pi(e) at the Wake of Postmodernism: Mathematics and Mysticism at the End of the 20th Century / Clayton Dion
  • Derrida and the Ethics of Mourning After / Dawne McCance
  • Postmodernism and the Crisis of Belief: Neo-Realism vs. the Real / Clayton Crockett
  • The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event / John D. Caputo
  • Contributors.