Postmodernism and the Contemporary Novel: A Reader

Bran Nicol

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2002

Postmodernism and the Contemporary Novel

A Reader

Bran Nicol

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474471312

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About this book

Postmodernism and the Contemporary Novel: A Reader is the first book to collect together the most important contributions to the theory of the postmodern novel over the last forty years and to guide readers through the complex questions and wide-ranging debates: what are its characteristics? Which novels and authors belong to the category? Does it even deserve to be a category on its own? From which traditions does it emerge? How does it relate to previous forms of the novel and to other aspects of postmodern culture?

While discussion of the contemporary novel has been dominated by the question of postmodernism, developments in contemporary fiction are also central to the wider debate about postmodernism. Fiction is referred to frequently in the work of postmodernist thinkers not explicitly concerned with literature, like Baudrillard, Lyotard, and Haraway. The selections in this book will also enable readers to place the theory of postmodern fiction in a broader intellectual and cultural context.

Key Features

Analyses postmodern fiction from both thematic and formal perspectives, giving in-depth coverage to key features and issues such as metafiction, the relation to modernism, history, and politics

Features work by some of the most important theorists and critics of the last few decades, such as Ihab Hassan, Jean Baudrillard, Linda Hutcheon, and Brian McHale

Provides a sense of historical, social and cultural context to the debate about postmodernism in fiction

Gives ample coverage to some of the most compelling issues raised in relation to postmodern fiction in recent years, such as science and new technologies, the cyborg, 'race' and gender

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	iii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
INTRODUCTION: WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT POSTMODERNISM Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I THE POSTMODERN CONDITION
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MAPPING POSTMODERNISM
1 THE CULTURAL LOGIC OF LATE CAPITALISM’ Fredric Jameson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	20
2 ‘TIME-SPACE COMPRESSION AND THE POSTMODERN CONDITION’ David Harvey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
3 ‘MAPPING THE POSTMODERN’ Andreas Huyssen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
NARRATIVE, KNOWLEDGE, REPRESENTATION
4 FROM THE POSTMODERN CONDITION: A REPORT ON KNOWLEDGE Jean-Frangois Lyotard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
5 THE PRECESSION OF SIMULACRA’ Jean Baudrillard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
IRONY AND ‘DOUBLE CODING’ 6 ‘POSTMODERNISM, IRONY, THE ENJOYABLE’
6 ‘POSTMODERNISM, IRONY, THE ENJOYABLE’ Umberto Eco Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
7 ‘POST-MODERNISM DEFINED’ Charles Jencks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
DIAGNOSING POSTMODERNISM
8 ‘YOU MAY!’ Slavoj Žižek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
PART II THE POSTMODERN TU RN
INTRODUCTION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
9 THE LITERATURE OF EXHAUSTION’ John Barth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
10 ‘MASS SOCIETY AND POSTMODERN FICTION’ Irving Howe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
11 ‘ONE CULTURE AND THE NEW SENSIBILITY’ Susan Sontag Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
12 ‘CROSS THE BORDER - CLOSE THAT GAP: POST-MODERNISM’ Leslie A. Fiedler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
13 THE DETECTIVE AND THE BOUNDARY: SOME NOTES ON THE POSTMODERN LITERARY IMAGINATION’ William V. Spanos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
14 ‘POSTmodernISM: A PARACRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY’ lhab Hassan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	186
15 THE MYTH OF THE POSTMODERN BREAKTHROUGH’ Gerald Graff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
PART III POSTMODERN POETICS
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THE NOVEL
16 FROM S/Z Roland Barthes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	226
17 FROM ‘DISCOURSE IN THE NOVEL’ Mikhail Bakhtin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
18 FROM METAFICTION Patricia Waugh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
TOWARDS A POETICS OF POSTMODERN FICTION
19 ‘POSTMODERNIST FICTION’ David Lodge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	250
20 ‘CHANGE OF DOMINANT FROM MODERNIST TO POSTMODERNIST WRITING’ Brian McHale Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	278
21 FROM A POETICS OF POSTMODERNISM Linda Hutcheon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
POSTMODERN GENRE
22 FROM THE DOOMED DETECTIVE Stephano Tani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	320
PART IV POSTMODERN POLITICS
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POLITICS AND FICTIONALITY
23 FROM THE POLITICS OF POSTMODERNISM Linda Hutcheon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
24 TH E ETHICS OF ALTERITY’ Thomas Docherty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355
25 FROM DISSIDENT POSTMODERNISTS Paul Maltby Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	371
FEMINISM AND POSTMODERNISM
26 ‘FEMINISM, READING, POSTMODERNISM’ Meaghan Morris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	390
27 ‘A MANIFESTO FOR CYBORGS: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIALIST FEMINISM IN THE 1980s’ Donna Haraway Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	396
IS THE ‘POST’ IN POSTCOLONIAL THE SAME AS THE ‘POST’ IN POSTMODERN?
28 ‘POSTMODERN BLACKNESS’ Bell Hooks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	421
29 THE POSTCOLONIAL AND THE POSTMODERN’ Kwame Anthony Appiah Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	429
TECHNOLOGY AND PARANOIA
30 ‘CYBERNETIC DECONSTRUCTIONS: CYBERPUNK AND POSTMODERNISM’ Veronica Hollinger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	446
31 ‘ENGENDERING PARANOIA IN CONTEMPORARY NARRATIVE’ Patrick O’Donnell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	463
NAMES INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	479
SUBJECT INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	486

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 496
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: November 21, 2002
ISBN: 9781474471312