The mourning after : attending the wake of postmodernism /
The mourning after : attending the wake of postmodernism /
edited by Neil Brooks and Josh Toth.
- 1 online resource (xii, 306 pages) : illustrations.
- Postmodern studies ; 40 .
- Postmodern Studies 40. Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2007, ISBN: 9789004357969. .
Includes bibliographical references.
Preliminary Material -- Introduction: A Wake and Renewed? / Postmodernism in a Fundamentalist Arena / Postmodernism in the Age of Distracting Discourses / Attending to Suffering in/at the Wake of Postmodernism / Soul Service: Foucault’s “Care of the Self” as Politics and Ethics / Mood Swings: The Aesthetics of Ambient Emergence / New York, Los Angeles, and Other Toxicities: Revisiting Postmodernism in Rushdie’s Fury and Shalimar the Clown / Nothing to Write Home About: Impossible Reception in Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves / Turncoat: Why Jonathan Franzen Finally Said “No” to Po-Mo / Serving Pi(e) at the Wake of Postmodernism: Mathematics and Mysticism at the End of the 20th Century / Derrida and the Ethics of Mourning After / Postmodernism and the Crisis of Belief: Neo-Realism vs. the Real / The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event / Contributors. Josh Toth and Neil Brooks -- Paul Maltby -- Robert McLaughlin -- Jennifer Geddes -- Jane Flax -- N. Katherine Hayles and Todd Gannon -- Gavin Keulks -- William G. Little -- Robert Rebein -- Clayton Dion -- Dawne McCance -- Clayton Crockett -- John D. Caputo --
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Have we moved beyond postmodernism? Did postmodernism lose its oppositional value when it became a cultural dominant? While focusing on questions such as these, the articles in this collection consider the possibility that the death of a certain version of postmodernism marks a renewed attempt to re-negotiate and perhaps re-embrace many of the cultural, literary and theoretical assumptions that postmodernism seemly denied outright. Including contributions from some of the leading scholars in the field – N. Katherine Hayles, John D. Caputo, Paul Maltby, Jane Flax, among others – this collection ultimately comes together to perform a certain work of mourning. Through their explorations of this current epistemological shift in narrative and theoretical production, these articles work to “get over” postmodernism while simultaneously celebrating a certain postmodern inheritance, an inheritance that can offer us important avenues to understanding and affecting contemporary culture and society.
9789401204064
10.1163/9789401204064 DOI
Postmodernism (Literature)
Postmodernism.
Postmodernism.
Postmodernism (Literature)
B831.2 / .M685 2007eb
808.8/0113
Includes bibliographical references.
Preliminary Material -- Introduction: A Wake and Renewed? / Postmodernism in a Fundamentalist Arena / Postmodernism in the Age of Distracting Discourses / Attending to Suffering in/at the Wake of Postmodernism / Soul Service: Foucault’s “Care of the Self” as Politics and Ethics / Mood Swings: The Aesthetics of Ambient Emergence / New York, Los Angeles, and Other Toxicities: Revisiting Postmodernism in Rushdie’s Fury and Shalimar the Clown / Nothing to Write Home About: Impossible Reception in Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves / Turncoat: Why Jonathan Franzen Finally Said “No” to Po-Mo / Serving Pi(e) at the Wake of Postmodernism: Mathematics and Mysticism at the End of the 20th Century / Derrida and the Ethics of Mourning After / Postmodernism and the Crisis of Belief: Neo-Realism vs. the Real / The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event / Contributors. Josh Toth and Neil Brooks -- Paul Maltby -- Robert McLaughlin -- Jennifer Geddes -- Jane Flax -- N. Katherine Hayles and Todd Gannon -- Gavin Keulks -- William G. Little -- Robert Rebein -- Clayton Dion -- Dawne McCance -- Clayton Crockett -- John D. Caputo --
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Have we moved beyond postmodernism? Did postmodernism lose its oppositional value when it became a cultural dominant? While focusing on questions such as these, the articles in this collection consider the possibility that the death of a certain version of postmodernism marks a renewed attempt to re-negotiate and perhaps re-embrace many of the cultural, literary and theoretical assumptions that postmodernism seemly denied outright. Including contributions from some of the leading scholars in the field – N. Katherine Hayles, John D. Caputo, Paul Maltby, Jane Flax, among others – this collection ultimately comes together to perform a certain work of mourning. Through their explorations of this current epistemological shift in narrative and theoretical production, these articles work to “get over” postmodernism while simultaneously celebrating a certain postmodern inheritance, an inheritance that can offer us important avenues to understanding and affecting contemporary culture and society.
9789401204064
10.1163/9789401204064 DOI
Postmodernism (Literature)
Postmodernism.
Postmodernism.
Postmodernism (Literature)
B831.2 / .M685 2007eb
808.8/0113