Postmodernism A Reader

by Waugh, Patricia

• ISBN13: 9780340573815
• ISBN10: 0340573813
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-02-15
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Postmodernism provides a collection of the incessantly cited but nevertheless still widely-scattered critical texts on postmodernism and literary theory. It includes all the "classics" as well as some less obvious, though no less stimulating, choices. An introduction and commentary by Pat Waugh provides essential information and offers a context within which to view the chosen texts.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
Introduction	1	(10)
Section One: Modernism and Postmodernism
Anthony Giddens, `Modernism and Postmodernism'	11	(3)
Alan Wilde, `Modernism and the Aesthetics of Crisis'	14	(10)
Section Two: Postmodernism and Literary History
Introduction	22	(2)
Irving Howe, `Mass Society and Postmodern Fiction'	24	(7)
Leslie Fiedler, `Cross the Border - Close the Gap'	31	(17)
Susan Sontag, `Against Interpretation'	48	(8)
Frank Kermode, From A Sense of an Ending	56	(4)
Ihab Hassan, From Paracriticisms	60	(18)
William Spanos, `The Detective and the Boundary: Some Notes on the Postmodern Literary Imagination'	78	(11)
Section Three: The Critique of Enlightened Modernity: Philosophical Precursors
Introduction	87	(2)
Immanuel Kant, `An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?'	89	(7)
Michael Foucault, `What is Enlightenment?'	96	(12)
Friedrich Nietzsche, From Twilight of the Idols/The Antichrist	108	(9)
Section Four: Postmodern Theory: The Current Debate
Introduction	113	(4)
Jean-Francois Lyotard, `Answering the Question: What is Postmodernism?'	117	(8)
Fredric Jameson, `Periodising the Sixties'	125	(27)
Terry Eagleton, `Capitalism, Modernism and Postmodernism'	152	(8)
Jurgen Habermas, `Modernity - An Incomplete Project'	160	(10)
Richard Rorty, From Contingency, Irony and Solidarity	170	(16)
Jean Baudrillard, From Simulations	186	(3)
Patricia Waugh, `Modernism, Postmodernism, Feminism: Gender and Autonomy Theory'	189	(17)
Section Five: Reading Postmodern Artefacts
Introduction	205	(1)
Linda Hutcheon, From A Poetics of Postmodernism	206	(5)
Brian McHale, From Postmodernist Fiction	211	(8)
Bibliography	219	(6)
Index	225