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This text is divided into two parts: the first, an introduction by the editor, offering a schematic survey of the major themes and positions taken in the debates around modernism and postmodernism; the second, a collection of pertinent essays grouped into four sections to demonstrate how the debates have been applied to specific cultural activities. These activities include popular culture, architecture and visual arts, literature, documentary and film.

Table of Contents:
Part I Postmodernism: a new representation? Paradigms of the Postmodern, Using this book, Modern, modernity, moderniz: Economic transformation, commodity and consumption; Modernism and Its Consequences: Continuity or Break? The forms of art ; The genders of modernism ; The impact of war ; Rationality or the unconscious? Formal experiment or conventional form? Elite modernism versus popular taste ; Modernism- a limiting paradigm: Modernisms aftermath ; Postmodernism: from Elite to Mass Culture? Architecture, mother of the arts ; Representation in crisis? A lexicon of postmodern technique ; Subjectivity and subjection, history and nature ; Conclusion: Resisting the Postmodern: The use of paradigms: renaissance and postmodernity; Culture and the debt bomb Part II Essays on Postmodernism, One: Popular Culture: Rock on: the popular front against postmodernism LA: the city as postmodern future shock ; 1 Popular Music and Postmodern Theory In search of the postmodern text; But is it Art? ; Coda: hyper-marketing postmodernism ; 2 Recognizing a 'human-Thing': Cyborgs, Robots and Replicants in Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Ridley Scott's Blade Runner ; Dick's dystopia: the death of species ; Visualizing novels, thinking in pictures: Blade Runner as optical philosophy ; Epilogue: the Director's Cut, the cruellest cut ; Two: Architecture and Visual Arts; Postmodernism and the visual arts: the end of painting? ; Art of the women's movement feminist and/ or postmodernist? ; Tom Phillips: painterly skill and postmodern technique ; 3 Melancholy Meanings: Architecture, Postmodernity and Philosophy; 4 'The World Is Indeed a Fabulous Tale'; Yve Lomax- a Practice around Photography; HILARY GRESTY in dialogue With YVE LOMAXs Televising Hell: Tom Phillips and Peter Greenaway's TV Dante; Painting language; 5 Televising Hell; Theorizing text and image; Three: Literature: John Ashbery: postmodernity's laureate? It was and it was not so:· the politics of fiction Violent misreading; Gayatn· Spivak: deconstruction and postcolonial fiction 6 A New Subjectivity? John Ashbery's Three Poems; Ashbery's postmodern successors; In conclusion: a pre-modern Homeric truth 7 Reading The Satanic Verses: Four: The Real and the True: Documentary Film; Documentary: how is reality represented? Trinh T. Minh-ha and the critique of documentary 8 The Totalizing Quest of Meaning

About the Author :
Nigel Wheale teaches in the Faculty of Humanities at Anglia Polytechnic University. He is the co-editor, with Lesley Aers, of Shakespeare in the Changing Curriculum (Routledge 1991).

Review :
'This is a beautifully produced and a carefully, almost too carefully composed book.' - The Times Higher Education Supplement


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780415126113
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 314
  • Weight: 494 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0415126118
  • Publisher Date: 14 Sep 1995
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Critical Readers in Theory and Practice
  • Width: 156 mm


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