Postmodern Times

by Carmichael, Thomas Joseph Daniel; Lee, Alison

• ISBN13: 9780875802510
• ISBN10: 0875802516
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-12-01
• Publisher: Northern Illinois Univ Pr

Author Biography

Thomas Carmichael and Alison Lee are Associate Professors of English at the University of Western Ontario.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction: Postmodern Life, Or What You See Is What You Get	3	(14)
Thomas Carmichael
Alison Lee
Postmodern Subjects
Psychoanalysis and the Postmodern Subject: The Question of a Metapsychology	17	(24)
Michael Zeitlin
Lost in the Post?: Feminism's Divided Relationship to Postmodernity	41	(12)
Diane Elam
Postmodern Politics and Culture
Just Events	53	(14)
Thomas Docherty
Postmodern Education in the Age of Border Youth	67	(28)
Henry A. Giroux
Postmodern Art and Technoculture
Transaesthetics	95	(16)
Margot Lovejoy
Hyperaesthetics: Theorizing in Real-Time about Digital Cultures	111	(16)
Peter Lunenfeld
If Only Mother Nature Could Sue Wordsworth for Copyright Infringement	127	(14)
Wendy Griesdorf
Postmodern Architecture
Post-Modern Architecture and Time Fusion	141	(14)
Charles Jencks
Postmodern Media and Performance
``Old Tools,'' not ``New Noise'': Opera's Postmodern Moment	155	(18)
Linda Hutcheon
Channel Surfing: Postmodernism on Television	173	(28)
Glenn Hendler
Postmodern Literature
Difficult Times: Manifesto for a Postmodern Literary History	201	(8)
Bill Readings
To the Beat of a Different Conundrum: Postmodern Science and Literature	209	(22)
Susan Strehle
Postmodern Cuisine
The Cilantro Cannot Hold: Postmodern Cuisine Beyond the Golden Arches	231	(14)
Paul Budra
Afterword: Post-modernism: A Whole Full of Holes	245	(20)
Charles Jencks
Alison Lee
Contributors	265	(4)
Index	269