TY - BOOK AU - Brooks,Neil AU - Toth,Josh TI - The mourning after: attending the wake of postmodernism T2 - Postmodern studies SN - 9789401204064 AV - B831.2 .M685 2007eb U1 - 808.8/0113 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Amsterdam, New York PB - Rodopi KW - Postmodernism (Literature) KW - Postmodernism KW - fast N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Preliminary Material --; Introduction: A Wake and Renewed?; Josh Toth and Neil Brooks --; Postmodernism in a Fundamentalist Arena; Paul Maltby --; Postmodernism in the Age of Distracting Discourses; Robert McLaughlin --; Attending to Suffering in/at the Wake of Postmodernism; Jennifer Geddes --; Soul Service: Foucault’s “Care of the Self” as Politics and Ethics; Jane Flax --; Mood Swings: The Aesthetics of Ambient Emergence; N. Katherine Hayles and Todd Gannon --; New York, Los Angeles, and Other Toxicities: Revisiting Postmodernism in Rushdie’s Fury and Shalimar the Clown; Gavin Keulks --; Nothing to Write Home About: Impossible Reception in Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves; William G. Little --; Turncoat: Why Jonathan Franzen Finally Said “No” to Po-Mo; Robert Rebein --; Serving Pi(e) at the Wake of Postmodernism: Mathematics and Mysticism at the End of the 20th Century; Clayton Dion --; Derrida and the Ethics of Mourning After; Dawne McCance --; Postmodernism and the Crisis of Belief: Neo-Realism vs. the Real; Clayton Crockett --; The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event; John D. Caputo --; Contributors; Available to subscribing member institutions only N2 - 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 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401204064 ER -