The Fiction of PostmodernityThe Fiction of Postmodernity is a significant and accessible new study of the relation of postmodern fiction to theories of the postmodern. Contemporary works of fiction by novelists such as Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, Thomas Pynchon and Martin Amis are viewed in relation to critiques of the 'culture industry', analyses of the 'postmodern condition' and theories of simulacra. The work of influential theorists of the postmodern - such as Theodor Adorno, Jean-François Lyotard, Fredric Jameson and Jean Baudrillard - is explained and compared. The book offers descriptions of the postmodern from both the Marxist critical tradition and from the perspective of postmarxism. Key features in both these definitions are explained in relation to modernist and postmodern works of fiction. Issues relating to the postmodern representation of history and the development of a postmodern politics are also addressed in relation to works of contemporary fiction. Key Features
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Thinking after Marxism | 58 |
Lyotard Postmodernism and the Sublime | 68 |
Ideology and Simulacra | 79 |
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Fictions of Commodity Culture: From the Victorian to the Postmodern Christoph Lindner No preview available - 2003 |
A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture David Bradshaw,Kevin J. H. Dettmar No preview available - 2006 |