Exploring Postmodernism

Exploring Postmodernism
Title Exploring Postmodernism PDF eBook
Author Matei Calinescu
Publisher John Benjamins Publishing
Pages 277
Release 1988-01-01
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 902727858X

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The great diversity of contexts in which the term Postmodernism is currently encountered reflects the remarkable success of a coinage that has been in circulation for only about forty years. It has been used by philosophers, sociologists, art critics and literary historians to become, finally, a household word in the language of advertising and politics. Before letting it fade to a derelict cliché, an attempt is made in this volume of essays to use its potential as a cultural concept for the analysis and understanding of contemporary literature and thought.

Explaining Postmodernism

Explaining Postmodernism
Title Explaining Postmodernism PDF eBook
Author Stephen R. C. Hicks
Publisher Scholargy Publishing, Inc.
Pages 250
Release 2004
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9781592476428

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Revisiting Postmodernism

Revisiting Postmodernism
Title Revisiting Postmodernism PDF eBook
Author Terry Farrell
Publisher Routledge
Pages 461
Release 2019-06-28
Genre Architecture
ISBN 1000701417

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Revisiting Postmodernism offers an engaging, wide-ranging and highly illustrated account of postmodernism in architecture from its roots in the 1940s to its ongoing relevance today. This book invites readers to see Postmodernism in a new light: not just a style but a cultural phenomenon that embraces all areas of life and thrives on complexity and pluralism, in contrast to the strait-laced, single-style, top-down inclination of its predecessor, Modernism. While focusing on architecture, this book also explores aspects such as urban masterplanning, furniture design, art and literature. Looking at Postmodernism through the lens of examples from around the world, each chapter explores the movement in the UK on the one hand, and its international counterparts on the other, reflecting on the historical movement but also how postmodernism influences practices today. This book offers the insider’s view on postmodernism by the author, a recognised pioneer in the field of postmodern architecture and a prestigious and authoritative participant in the postmodern movement.

Postmodernizing the Faith

Postmodernizing the Faith
Title Postmodernizing the Faith PDF eBook
Author Millard J. Erickson
Publisher Baker Academic
Pages 188
Release 1998
Genre Religion
ISBN

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The dean of evangelical theologians explores six evangelical responses--both positive and negative--to postmodernism.

Approaching Postmodernism

Approaching Postmodernism
Title Approaching Postmodernism PDF eBook
Author Douwe Wessel Fokkema
Publisher John Benjamins Publishing
Pages 313
Release 1986
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9027221960

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Most of the essays collected in this volume deal with theoretical issues that dominate the international debate on Postmodernism, issues such as the shifting nature of the concept, the problem of periodization and the problem of historicity. Other essays offer readings of Postmodernist texts and relate practical criticism to a theoretical framework. Hans Bertens (Utrecht) sketches the historical development of the concept Postmodernism in American criticism, distinguishing between the various definitions that have been proposed over the last twenty-five years, in an attempt to bring some order to the field and to facilitate future discussion. Brian McHale (Tel Aviv) and Douwe Fokkema (Utrecht) offer models for the description of Postmodernist texts. Richard Todd (Amsterdam) argues convincingly that Postmodernism is much more of a presence in contemporary British fiction than has so far been assumed, and Herta Schmid (Munich) presents a similar argument with respect to Russian avant-garde theater. Elrud Ibsch (Amsterdam) presents a contrastive analysis of Thomas Bernhard and Robert Musil; Ulla Musarra (Nijmegen) writes on Italo Calvino. The relation between Existentialism and Postmodernism is examined by Gerhard Hoffman (Wurzburg); Theo D'haen (Utrecht) finds important parallels between Postmodernism in literature and in the visual arts; Matei Calinescu (Bloomington, Ind.) relates literary Postmodernism to a far more general cultural shift, rejecting, however, Foucault's notion of an epistemic break and arguing for both continuity and discontinuity. Finally, Helmut Lethen (Utrecht) and Susan Suleiman (Harvard) sharply question the concept of Postmodernism. Suleiman argues that the supposed Postmodernist reaction against Modernism may well be a critical myth or, if it isn't, a reaction limited to the American literary situation.

Constructing Postmodernism

Constructing Postmodernism
Title Constructing Postmodernism PDF eBook
Author Brian McHale
Publisher Routledge
Pages 349
Release 2012-11-12
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1135083630

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Brian McHale provides a series of readings of a wide range of postmodernist fiction, from Eco's Foucault's Pendulum to the works of cyberpunk science-fiction, relating the works to aspects of postmodern popular culture.

Bollywood and Postmodernism

Bollywood and Postmodernism
Title Bollywood and Postmodernism PDF eBook
Author Neelam Sidhar Wright
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Pages 361
Release 2015-06-24
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1474403565

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'New Bollywood' has arrived, but its postmodern impulse often leaves film scholars reluctant to theorise its aesthetics. How do we define the style of a contemporary Bollywood film? Are Bollywood films just uninspired Hollywood rip-offs, or does their borrowing signal genuine innovation within the industry?Applying postmodern concepts and locating postmodern motifs in key commercial Hindi films, this innovative study reveals how Indian cinema has changed in the 21st century. Equipping readers with an alternative method of reading contemporary Indian cinema, Bollywood and Postmodernism takes Indian film studies beyond the exhausted theme of diaspora, and exposes a new decade of aesthetic experimentation and textual appropriation in mainstream Bombay cinema. A bold celebration of contemporary Bollywood texts, this book radically redefines Indian film and persuasively argues for its seriousness as a field of study in world cinema.