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"The concepts of 'Modernism and 'Postmodernism' constitute the single most dominant issue of twentieth-century literature and culture and are the cause of much debate. This difficult and controversial subject makes the need for a clear and authoritative guide all the more essenti...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Brooker, Peter
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Longman, 1992.
Subjects:
Modernism (Literature)
Postmodernism (Literature)
Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Reconstructions
  • Making it old: 'traditionalist modernism'
  • 'Have a nice day, M. Derrida, M. Baudrillard'
  • Insider postmodernism: Jameson and Tomorrowland
  • Back to a New Futurism
  • Modernist Positions
  • 1. Georg Lukacs, from The Meaning of Contemporary Realism
  • Bertolt Brecht from 'The Popular and the Realistic'
  • 2. Walter Benjamin, from 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction'
  • 3. Theodor Adorno, 'Letter to Walter Benjamin'
  • 4. Peter Burger, 'Avant-Garde and Engagement'
  • Repositioning Modernism
  • 5. Marshall Berman, 'The Twentieth Century: the Halo and the Highway'
  • 6. Raymond Williams, 'The Metropolis and the Emergence of Modernism'
  • 7. Jean Radford, from 'Coming to Terms: Dorothy Richardson, Modernism and Women'
  • 8. Houston A. Baker Jnr, from Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance
  • 9. Laleen Jayamanne, Geeta Kapur and Yvonne Rainer, from 'Discussing Modernity, "Third World" and The Man Who Envied Women'
  • Postmodern Narratives
  • 10. Jurgen Habermas, 'Modernity
  • an Incomplete Project'
  • 11. Jean-Francois Lyotard, 'Answering the Question: What is Postmodernism?'
  • 12. Jean Baudrillard, from 'Simulacra and Simulations'
  • 13. Fredric Jameson, 'Postmodernism and Consumer Society'
  • Popular Capitalism and Popular Culture
  • 14. David Harvey, from The Condition of Postmodernity. An Enquiry into the Origins of Social Change
  • 15. Iain Chambers, 'Contamination, Coincidence and Collusion. Pop Music, Urban Culture and the Avant-Garde'
  • A Feminist Postmodernism?
  • 16. Julia Kristeva, 'Postmodernism?'
  • 17. Laura Kipnis, from 'Feminism: the Political Conscience of Postmodernism?'
  • Black Culture and Postmodernism
  • 18. Cornel West from 'An Interview with Cornell West Anders Stephanson'
  • Postmodernist Fiction
  • 19. Umberto Eco, 'Postmodernism, Irony, the Enjoyable'
  • 20. Linda Hutcheon, 'Telling Stories: Fiction and History'
  • 21. Carlos Fuentes, 'Words Apart'.

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