Postmodernist Culture An Introduction to Theories of the Contemporary

by Connor, Steven

• ISBN13: 9780631200529
• ISBN10: 0631200525
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-01-23
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

In this completely revised and considerably expanded new edition, Steven Connor considers the recent work of the most influential postmodern theorists, including Lyotard and Jameson, and offers accounts both of the work of newly emerging theorists and new areas of postmodernist culture which have developed over the last decade, especially in law, music, dance, spatial theory, ethnography, ecology, and the new technologies.

Author Biography

Steven Kevin Connor, FBA is a British literary scholar. Since 2012, he has been the Grace 2 Professor of English in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition	vii	(3)
Acknowledgements	x
Part I Context	3	(20)
1 Postmodernism and the Academy	3	(20)
Part II Posterities	23	(204)
2 Postmodernities: Postmodern Social and Legal Theory	23	(51)
Jean-Francois Lyotard	23	(20)
Fredric Jameson	43	(8)
Jean Baudrillard	51	(10)
Postmodern Law	61	(13)
3 Postmodernism in Architecture and the Visual Arts	74	(37)
Architecture	75	(12)
Art	87	(17)
Photography	104	(7)
4 Postmodernism and Literature	111	(30)
Unmaking and Irony	116	(7)
Beyond Spatialism	123	(6)
Ontology and Metafiction	129	(5)
Possible Worlds: Science Fiction and Cyberpunk	134	(7)
5 Postmodern Performance	141	(41)
Theatre	141	(16)
Dance	157	(6)
Mime	163	(2)
Music	165	(17)
6 Postmodern TV, Video and Film	182	(23)
TV and Video	182	(13)
Film	195	(10)
7 Postmodernism and Popular Culture	205	(22)
Rock Music	205	(8)
Style and Fashion	213	(14)
Part III Consequences	227	(62)
8 Post-Modesty: Renunciation and the Sublime	227	(24)
9 Postmodernism and Cultural Politics	251	(38)
Spaces of Resistance	251	(10)
Feminism and Postmodernism	261	(2)
Postmodernity and Post-Coloniality	263	(8)
Postmodernism, the Avant-Garde and Ethical Possibility	271	(6)
Afterculture: Postmodern Ecology	277	(12)
Bibliography	289	(30)
Index	319