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Practising postmodernism, reading modernism
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- Creator
- Patricia Waugh
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- London ; New York : Edward Arnold, 1992
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- vi, 176 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0340550503, 9780340550502
- OCLC
- ocm28147491
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-173) and index.
- pt. 1. Reading Postmodernism: Modernity and its Discontents. 1. Introducing Postmodernism: The Romance of the Aesthetic and Post-Romantic Aesthetics. Apocalyse Now. From Autonomy to Aestheticism: Tradition and Innovation. Romanticism to Postmodernism: Radical Fictionality and Being There. 2. The Poetics of the Sublime: Presenting the Unpresentable. New Contexts for Lyotard's Postmodernism. Enlightenment: Exhausted or Incomplete? Terror and the Sublime: The Art of the Unpresentable. The Concept Versus the Luminous Detail: Against Totality. 3. Periodising the Postmodern: Ism as Fiery Particle -- Introduction: Constructing the Dominant. The Cultural Logic of Jameson's Postmodernism. 4. Postmodernism as Aesthetic Technique: A View from Theory. The Question of Value: Salman Rushdie's Shame. Representation and Postmodern Anti-Foundationalism. History and Subjectivity in the Aesthetic Mode of the Postmodern: Reading Alice Walker's The Color Purple. Raising the Dead: Bringing back The Author
- 5. The Violence of Being Modern: Postmodernism as Critique of Enlightenment -- Introduction: Kant and Enlightenment. Is Deconstruction a Postmodernism? Modernity and the Critique of Instrumental Reason. Postmodernity in Modernity: Wasteland. The Fictional Critique of Enlightenment: Reading Doris Lessing's Memoirs of a Survivor -- pt. 2. Postmodernism Reading Modernism: Challenging Autonomy. 6. Modernism and Enlightenment: Reading Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. 7. Reconstructing Modernism: Life as Art. Aesthetic Autonomy: From Kant to New Criticism. The Core of Darkness: Autonomy Theory and Virginia Woolf. Life as Art: Postmodernism reading To the Lighthouse. 8. Modernism, Postmodernism, Gender: The View From Feminism. Founding Assumptions: Feminism and Postmodernism. Alternative Histories. Rethinking Subjectivity and Aesthetics: Alternative Feminist Positions. Psychoanalysis, Gender and Aesthetics. 9. From Impersonality to Situatedness: Reading T.S. Eliot on Tradition
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- English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- Modernism (Literature) -- English-speaking countries.
- Postmodernism (Literature) -- English-speaking countries.
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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- Postmodernism (Literature)
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