Search Results - Postmodernism

Writing the Yugoslav Wars : Literature, Postmodernism, and the Ethics of Representation / by Obradović, Dragana

Table of Contents: “…War, postmodernism, and literary immanence -- The spectacle of the siege -- The phantasmagoria and seduction of Kitsch -- The search for a language of the historical present -- The quickened moral pulse.…”
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Writing the Yugoslav Wars : Literature, Postmodernism, and the Ethics of Representation / by Obradović, Dragana

Table of Contents: “…War, postmodernism, and literary immanence -- The spectacle of the siege -- The phantasmagoria and seduction of Kitsch -- The search for a language of the historical present -- The quickened moral pulse.…”
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Darkly Perfect World : Colonial Adventure, Postmodernism, and American Noir / by Orr, Stanley, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Hughes, and John Okada -- Noir and the postmodern novel -- To look at him or read him : the confidence man in postmodernist film noir -- Conclusion. …”
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Darkly Perfect World : Colonial Adventure, Postmodernism, and American Noir / by Orr, Stanley, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Hughes, and John Okada -- Noir and the postmodern novel -- To look at him or read him : the confidence man in postmodernist film noir -- Conclusion. …”
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The Real, the True, and the Told : Postmodern Historical Narrative and the Ethics of Representation / by Berlatsky, Eric L., 1972-

Subjects: “…Postmodernism (Literature) fast (OCoLC)fst01073181 145668…”
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Re-Forming the Past : History, The Fantastic, and the Postmodern Slave Narrative / by Spaulding, A. Timothy

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The slave narrative and its postmodern counterpart -- The conflation of time in Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada and Octavia Butler's Kindred -- Ghosts, haunted houses, and the legacy of slavery : Toni Morrison's Beloved and the gothic impulse -- Re-forming Black subjectivity : symbolic transculturation in Charles Johnson's Oxherding tale and Middle passage -- Beyond postmodernity : de-familiarizing the postmodern slave narrative.…”
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The Real, the True, and the Told : Postmodern Historical Narrative and the Ethics of Representation / by Berlatsky, Eric L., 1972-

Subjects: “…Postmodernism (Literature) fast (OCoLC)fst01073181…”
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Re-Forming the Past : History, The Fantastic, and the Postmodern Slave Narrative / by Spaulding, A. Timothy

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The slave narrative and its postmodern counterpart -- The conflation of time in Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada and Octavia Butler's Kindred -- Ghosts, haunted houses, and the legacy of slavery : Toni Morrison's Beloved and the gothic impulse -- Re-forming Black subjectivity : symbolic transculturation in Charles Johnson's Oxherding tale and Middle passage -- Beyond postmodernity : de-familiarizing the postmodern slave narrative.…”
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Margaret Atwood's Textual Assassination : Recent Poetry and Fiction /

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Five Strands of Fictionality : The Institutional Construction of Contemporary American Fiction / by Punday, Daniel

Table of Contents: “…Myth and the institutional construction of postmodernism in The Friday book -- Folk culture, the archive, and the work of the imaginary -- Fiction, fraud, and fakes -- Style and symptom in postmodern science fiction -- Role playing games, possible world theory, and the fictionality of assemblage -- Institutional sutures in electronic writing -- Fictionality in the public sphere.…”
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Five Strands of Fictionality : The Institutional Construction of Contemporary American Fiction / by Punday, Daniel

Table of Contents: “…Myth and the institutional construction of postmodernism in The Friday book -- Folk culture, the archive, and the work of the imaginary -- Fiction, fraud, and fakes -- Style and symptom in postmodern science fiction -- Role playing games, possible world theory, and the fictionality of assemblage -- Institutional sutures in electronic writing -- Fictionality in the public sphere.…”
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Margaret Atwood's Textual Assassination : Recent Poetry and Fiction /

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Ekphrasis : The Illusion of the Natural Sign / by Krieger, Murray, 1923-2000

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Ekphrasis : The Illusion of the Natural Sign / by Krieger, Murray, 1923-2000

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Chaos Bound : Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science / by Hayles, N. Katherine, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…10 Conclusion: Chaos and Culture: Postmodernism(s) and the Denaturing of Experience --…”
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Chaos Bound : Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science / by Hayles, N. Katherine, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…10 Conclusion: Chaos and Culture: Postmodernism(s) and the Denaturing of Experience --…”
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Hemispheric Imaginations : North American Fictions of Latin America / by Breinig, Helmbrecht

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Alterity and identity : reflections on approaching the other -- Foundational narratives : some versions of Columbus -- Invasive methods : the opening of Latin America in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century US literature -- Representations of the Mexican revolution in US literature -- Nature and civilization : nineteenth-century travelers and twentieth-century escapists -- Gendered perceptions of Latin America in twentieth-century US literature -- The post-Vietnam era : versions of realism -- The postmodern response : magical realism and metafiction -- Splintered foundations : postmodern and Native American versions of Columbus -- Canada and Latin America : Malcolm Lowry and the other as symbolic field -- Post-Vietnam and twenty-first-century Canadian visitors.…”
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Hemispheric Imaginations : North American Fictions of Latin America / by Breinig, Helmbrecht

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Alterity and identity : reflections on approaching the other -- Foundational narratives : some versions of Columbus -- Invasive methods : the opening of Latin America in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century US literature -- Representations of the Mexican revolution in US literature -- Nature and civilization : nineteenth-century travelers and twentieth-century escapists -- Gendered perceptions of Latin America in twentieth-century US literature -- The post-Vietnam era : versions of realism -- The postmodern response : magical realism and metafiction -- Splintered foundations : postmodern and Native American versions of Columbus -- Canada and Latin America : Malcolm Lowry and the other as symbolic field -- Post-Vietnam and twenty-first-century Canadian visitors.…”
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Indiscretions : Avant-Garde Film, Video, and Feminism / by Mellencamp, Patricia

Table of Contents: “…Historically speaking -- Visionary film and sexual difference -- Video politics -- Surveillance and simulation -- Theoretical objects -- Postmodern TV -- Uncanny feminism -- Last scene in the streets of modernism -- Taking a cue from Ariadne -- Images of language and indiscreet dialogues -- The avant-garde, the everyday, and the underground.…”
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Indiscretions : Avant-Garde Film, Video, and Feminism / by Mellencamp, Patricia

Table of Contents: “…Historically speaking -- Visionary film and sexual difference -- Video politics -- Surveillance and simulation -- Theoretical objects -- Postmodern TV -- Uncanny feminism -- Last scene in the streets of modernism -- Taking a cue from Ariadne -- Images of language and indiscreet dialogues -- The avant-garde, the everyday, and the underground.…”
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