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The Parameters of Postmodernism
by Nicholas Zurbrugg. 183 pgs.

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Anti-Art or Ante-Art?

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Monumental Art or Submonumental Art?

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Eagleton and the Apocalyptic Fallacy

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Introducing the B-Effect

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Introducing the C-Eftect

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Deploring/Exploring Hyperspace: Jameson and Cage

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Stupefaction or Enlivenment?

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Benjamin and the Loss of Aura

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Barthes, Belsey, and the Death Of> the Author

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Bürger and the Death of the Avant-Garde

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Bonito-Oliva, Baudrillard, and the Collapse of the New

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Beckett, Brecht, and the Attractions of Antinarrative

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Beckett's Poetics of Failure/Brecht's Poetics of Interrogation

Beckett, Brecht, and the Groan of the Text

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Warhol and the Grin of the Text

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Eagleton, Jameson, and Dehistoricized Culture

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Cage, Kostelanetz, and Value Judgments

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Jameson, Rauschenberg, and Premature Exasperation

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Cage, Rauschenberg, and Ryman

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Cage and Consumption

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Collective Narrative and the Struggle with Simulacra

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Depersonalized Culture or Repersonalized Culture?

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Cage and the Antilogic of the Text

Beckett, Cage, and Nothing

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Beckett, Cage, and Programmatic Composition

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Purposeful Purposelessness or Nothing to Be Done?

Jameson, Bourdieu, and the Destruction of Art and Taste

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Chion, Cage, and New Aesthetic Rationales

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Postmodernism's Purist Aesthetic

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Postmodernism's Hybrid Aesthetic

Feldman, Crazy Contradiction, and the Conceptual, Artistic Life

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Pure "H" -- Habermas and Communicative Rationality

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Beuys, Adorno, and the Silence of Marcel Duchamp

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Beuys, Cage, Buchloh, and the B-B Effect

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Jappe, Jameson, and the Concept of Utopia

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Bense, Concrete Poetry, and the Dwindling of the Poetic Element

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Chopin, Human Vitality, and Technological Civilization

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Conz and the New Saints of the Avant-Garde

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A Problem in Design: Lax and Mann

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Postmodernism at Two Speeds: Hassan, Janco, and Seuphor

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Rainer, Robbe-Grillet, Reich, and the Turn to Interobjectivity

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Robbe-Grillet and the Re-Turn to the Subjective Type of Writing

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Rainer and the Re-Turn to Identity

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Reich and the Re-Turn to Historical Realities

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Multimedia Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Gaburo and Ashley

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Monk and the Re-Turn to Recurrence

Umberto Eco and the Re-Turn to the Middle Ages

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Grass and the Destruction of Mankind

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Grass, Mann, and the Re-Turn to Forbidden Literature

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Ernst, Carrington, and the Re-Turn of Surrealism

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Carrington, Cage, Beuys, and the Poetics of Resistance

Cage, Carrington, Barthes, Burroughs, Bense: From Artha to Moksha

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Cage, Wolf, and the Re-Turn to the Third Alternative

Wolf, Mann, and the Authority of Literary Genres

Müller, Beuys, and the Elevation of the Berlin Wall

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Müller, Brecht, and the Petrification of Hope

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Müller, Wilson, and the Re-Turn to the Classics

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Huyssen and the Endgame of the Avant-Garde

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Huyssen, Popper, and the Electrification of the Avant-Garde

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BuñUel, Breton, Benjamin, Baudrillard, and the Myths of Mechanical Depersonalization

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Delillo, Müller, Lyotard, Kroker, and the Panic Sensibility

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Ballard, the Kindness of Women, and Catharsis

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Beyond the Disappearance of Value: Anderson and Acker

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Toward Effective Communication: Kruger and Holzer

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Appropriation, Neutralization, and Reconciliation: Tillers and Johnson

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Independent Internationalism: Finlay and Lax

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Anderson and American Active Freedom

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Glass and Wilson: Alienation Effect or Empathy Effect?

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Burroughs, Walker, and the Pattern of Chaos

Beckett, Warrilow, and the Clarity of Spirit

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Considered in Diagrammatic Summary: The Phases of Postmodernism

The Modes of Modernism and Postmodernism

Baudrillard or Cage? Degeneration or Affirmation?

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Burt, Wendt, and the Positive Parameters of Postmodernism I

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Early Postmodernism: Foundational Essays
by Paul A. Bove. 300 pgs.

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Preface Literarypostmodernism

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The Detective and the Boundary Some Notes on the Postmodern Literary Imagination

Modernism and Postmodernism: Approaching the Present in American Poetry

The New Gnosticism Speculations on an Aspect of the Postmodern Mind

From Symbolist Thought to Immanence the Ground of Postmodern American Poetics

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Preliminary Images Catharine R. Stimpson

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The Dialectics of Literary Tradition

At Circe's, Or, the Self-Opener

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Postmodern Oral Poetry Buckminster Fuller, John Cage, and David Antin

From Heidegger to Derrida to Chance Doubling and (poetic) Language

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Scientific Discourse and Postmodernity Francis Bacon and the Empirical Birth of "Revision"

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Nietzsche's Prefiguration of Postmodern American Philosophy

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Constructive Postmodernism: Toward Renewal in Cultural and Literary Studies
by Martin Schiralli, Ralph A. Smith, Matthew Kieran. 163 pgs.

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Are indeterminancy and relativism the only possible consequences of embracing the uncertainties of the postmodern era? Are other less deconstructive options to be found emmbedded in postmodernism's many ambiguities? In arguing affirmatively to both questions, this study points--in a constructively postmodern way--toward renewal in literary and cultural theory.

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Introduction

Part I: Postmodernisms

From Premodern to Postmodern

2: The Lure of Derrida's Traces

3: Constructive Postmodernism

Part II: Toward Renewal

4: Toward Renewal in Literary Studies

5: Social Intelligence in Fiction

6: Emotional Intelligence

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Rediscovering Values: Coming to Terms With Postmodernism
by Hugh Mercer Curtler. 182 pgs.

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The author's primary purpose in this short book is to clearly define the nature of value and restore it to a central place in discussions of ethical and aesthetic problems. He begins the book with a broad cultural perspective on the issue of postmodernism in general, then takes a closer look at recent attempts to reduce values to evaluation, to deny their objectivity. The central chapter focuses on the question, "What Is Value?" after which Curtler discusses values in the fine arts and literature, concluding with the question of values in education.

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Chapter 1 Inverted Consciousness and the Eclipse of Values

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Chapter 2 the Postmodern Challenge

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Chapter 3 the Rejection of Values

Chapter 4 What Are Values?

Chapter 5 Values in the Arts

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Chapter 6 Greatness in Literature

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Chapter 7 Values and the Great Conversation

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Silverless Mirrors: Book, Self & Postmodern American Fiction
by Charles Caramello. 254 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Preface

1: Exploration

1: Shoping Presences, Shaped Absences

2: Moby-Dick And The Postmodern Turn

II: Explication

3: Fleshing Out Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife

4: Lost in The Funhouse And Other Refractions

5: Flushing Out The Voice In The Closet

6: The Volcanoes From Puebla And Other Reflections

7: Returning In The Right Promethean Fire

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Containment Culture: American Narrative, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age
by Alan Nadel. 336 pgs.

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Preface

Part I: The Straight Story and the Dual Nature

1. Appearance, Containment, And Atomic Power

2. History, Science, And Hiroshima

II: Containment Culture

3. Rhetoric, Sanity, and the Cold War: The Significance of Holden Caulfield's Testimony

4. God's Law and the Wide Screen: The Ten Commandments As Cold War "Epic"

5. Lady and (or) the Tramp: Sexual Containment and The Domestic Playboy

Part III: Double or Nothing

6: The Catch-22 of the Bay of Pigs And Liberty Valance

7. The Rules for Free Speech: Speech Act Theory and The Free Speech Movement

Part IV: Two Nations Too

8. My Country Too: Time, Place, and African American Identity In the Work of John A. Williams

9. Race, Rights, Gender, and Personal Narrative: The Archaeology of "Self" in Meridian

Coda: Democracy

10. Failed Cultural Narratives: America in the Postwar Era and The Story of Democracy

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The Play of the Double in Postmodern American Fiction
by Gordon E. Slethaug. 236 pgs.

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Prescript: Rewriting the Double

1: The History of the Double Traditional and Postmodern Versions

2 Analogy and the False Double Nabokov's Despair

3 Binary Intersubjectivity Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow

4 Eros and Thanatos Hawkes's Blood Oranges

5 Neither One nor Quite Two Barth's Lost in the Funhouse

6: Minimalism, Metadoubles, And Narcissism Brautigan's Hawkline Monster

7: Surfictive Games of Discourse Federman's Double or Nothing

Postscript: Re-Viewing the Double

Notes Bibliography Index

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Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction
by Scott Bukatman. 410 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

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1: Terminal Image

Introduction

2: Terminal Space

3: Terminal Penetration

4: Terminal Flesh

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5: Terminal Resistance/Cyborg Acceptance

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Filmography

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Postmodernism: The Uninhabited Word, Critics' Symposium, in Critique
by Robert Scholes. 20 pgs.

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Where Writing Begins: A Postmodern Reconstruction
by Michael Carter. 259 pgs.

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A new understanding of writing based on reconstructive, postmodern thought Where Writing Begins: A Postmodern Reconstruction is an innovative approach to the postmodern dilemma in rhetoric and composition that offers a positive and postmodern pedagogy that redefines and revalues writing and the teaching of writing through reconstructive, postmodern thought. The result is a fresh understanding of both the field of composition and writing instruction. Drawing on the rich potential of "beginning" as a philosophical concept, Michael Carter asks the simple question: Where does writing begin? His findings take readers first to a new view of what it means to begin, and then to a new understanding of writing and teaching writing based on the redefined beginning. Challenging conventional notions that posit "beginning" as a chronological and temporal concept, he instead advocates an ontological and philosophical approach, in which "beginning" embodies both deconstruction and reconstruction--and the very possibility of newness. Adding to a growing body of rhetorical scholarship in postmodern reconstruction, Where Writing Begins illustrates that writing must be understood within the framework of deconstruction and reconstruction. Writing, then, may be newly defined and valued as beginning. Weaving together conceptual, structural, and methodological patterns, Carter's study is also a journey through the history of philosophy and rhetoric that will leave readers feeling refreshed and teachers eager to return to their classes.

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Rhetorical Philosophy and Theory

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Where Writing Begins

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Where Writing Begins

Introduction: Beginnings

Part One: Beginning

1: At the Beginning: Starting Point

2: In the “pre-Beginning”: Origin

3: In the Beginning

4: Dialectical Beginnings

5: Archelogical Dialectic

Part Two: Writing

6: Defining Writing

7: Valuing Writing

Part Three: Teaching Writing

8: Definition: Should Writing Be Taught?

9: Value: a Heretical Ethics of Teaching Writing

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Appendix Notes Works Cited Index

Appendix

Notes

Works Cited

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Postmodern Approaches to the Short Story
by Farhat Iftekharrudin, Joseph Boyden, Joseph Longo, Mary Rohrberger. 156 pgs.

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Part I: Discovering the Shapes of the Short Story

1: The Challenge of "June Recital"

2: The End of the World

3: Genre and the Work of Reading in Mansfield's "Prelude" and "At the Bay"

4: Death and the Reader

5: Sandra Benítez and the Nomadic Text

Part II: Exploring the World of the Short Story

6: Postmodern Issues in Janette Turner Hospital's Nature

7: The Virtuous Complaint

8: Jean Toomer's Cane Donald Petesch

9: Homi K Bhabha and the Postcolonial Short Story

Part III: Encountering Issues of Gender and Sexuality

10: Wharton's Short Fiction of War

11: Living in a World of Make-Believe

12: The Fourierist Parables of Guy Davenport

Selected Bibliography

Index

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The Postmodern Short Story: Forms and Issues
by Farhat Iftekharrudin, Joseph Boyden, Mary Rohrberger, Jaie Claudet. 282 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Farhat Iftekharrudin

Fictional Nonfiction and Nonfictional Fiction

Playing It Straight

Facts and Fancy: The "Nonfiction Short Story"

Historiografiction: The Fictionalization of History in the Short Story

Women's Identity in the Postmodern World

Closure in Sandra Cisneros's "Woman Hollering Creek"

The Silence of the Bears: Leslie Marmon Silko's Writerly Act of Spiritual Storytelling

The Feminine Consciousness as Nightmare in the Short-Short Stories of Joyce

Postmodernism in Women's Short Story Cycles

Contemporary Men and Their Stories

Crippled

Male Paradigms in Thom Jones and Tom Paine

Eloquence and Plot in Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son

Ardor with a Silent H: Submitting to the Ache of Love in Edmund White's "Skinned Alive"

The Genre Which Is Not One: Hemingway's in Our Time, Difference, and the Short Story Cycle

Death as Image and Theme in Short Fiction

Short Stories to Film: Richard Ford's "Great Falls" and "Children" as Bright Angel

Melancholia and the Death Motif in Richard Brautigan's Short Fiction

Perhaps She Had Not Told Him All the Story: The Disnarrated in James Joyce's Dubliners

Postmodern Narrative around the World

Multiple Narrative Frames in R R R Dhlomo's "Juwawa"

Beyond Genre: Canadian Surrealist Short Fiction

Postmodernism in the American Short Story

Selected Bibliography

Index

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