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Book SynopsisThis is the first book to collect 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. The selections in this book will enable readers to place the theory of postmodern fiction in a broader intellectual and cultural context.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: What We Talk About When We Talk About Postmodernism; 1: The Postmodern Condition; MAPPING POSTMODERNISM; 1. Fredric Jameson, 'The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism' (1991); 2. David Harvey, 'Time-space Compression and the Postmodern Condition' (1989); 3. Andreas Huyssen, 'Mapping the Postmodern' (1986); NARRATIVE, KNOWLEDGE, REPRESENTATION; 4. Jean-Francois Lyotard, from The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1979); 5. Jean Baudrillard, 'The Precession of Simulacra' (1981); IRONY AND 'DOUBLE-CODING'; 6. Umberto Eco, 'Postmodernism, Irony, The Enjoyable' (1985); 7. Charles Jencks, Post-Modernism Defined' (1986); DIAGNOSING POSTMODERNISM; 8. Slavoj Zizek 'You May!' (1998); 2: The Postmodern Turn; 9. John Barth, 'The Literature of Exhaustion' (1967); 10. Irving Howe, 'Mass Society and post-modern fiction' (1959); 11. Susan Sontag, 'One Culture and the New Sensibility' (1965); 12. Leslie Fiedler, 'Cross the Border - Close the Gap' (1969); 13. William Spanos, 'The Detective and the Boundary: Some Notes on the Postmodern Literary Imagination' (1972); 14. Ihab Hassan, 'POSTmodernISM: A Paracritical Bibliography' (1971); 15. Gerald Graff, 'The Myth of the Postmodernist Breakthrough' (1973); 3: Postmodern Poetics; THE NOVEL FORM; 16. Roland Barthes, from S/Z (1970); 17. Mikhail Bakhtin, from 'Dialogue and the Novel' (1981); 18. Patricia Waugh, from Metafiction (1984); TOWARDS A POETICS OF POSTMODERN FICTION; 19. David Lodge, 'Postmodernist Fiction' (1977); 20. Brian McHale, 'Change of Dominant' (1986); 21. Linda Hutcheon, from A Poetics of Postmodernism (1988); POSTMODERN GENRE; 22. Stephano Tani, from The Doomed Detective (1984); 4: Postmodern Politics; POLITICS AND FICTIONALITY; 23. Linda Hutcheon, from The Politics of Postmodernism (1989); 24. Thomas Docherty, 'The Ethics of Alterity' (1988); 25. Paul Maltby, from Dissident Postmodernists (1991); FEMINISM AND POSTMODERNISM; 26. Meaghan Morris, 'Feminism, Reading, Postmodernism' (1993); 27. Donna Haraway, 'A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s' (1985); IS THE 'POST' IN POSTCOLONIAL THE SAME AS THE 'POST' IN POSTMODERN?; 28. bell hooks, 'Postmodern Blackness' (1993); 29. Kwame Anthony Appiah, 'The Postcolonial and the Postmodern' (1992); TECHNOLOGY AND PARANOIA; 30. Veronica Hollinger, 'Cybernetic Deconstructions: Cyberpunk and Postmodernism' (1990); 31. Patrick O'Donnell, 'Engendering Paranoia in Contemporary Narrative', (1992); Works Cited.
