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The Parameters of Postmodernism » Read Now
by Nicholas Zurbrugg. 183 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Nicholas Zurbrugg. p. cm. Includes index. 1. Postmodernism Literature 2. Postmodernism. I. Title. PN98.P67Z87 1993...5 Beckettian devotees tend to caricature postmodern...
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Early Postmodernism: Foundational Essays » Read Now
by Paul A. Bove. 300 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Literature, Entire Library
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Constructive Postmodernism: Toward Renewal in Cultural and Literary Studies » Read Now
by Martin Schiralli, Ralph A. Smith, Matthew Kieran. 163 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Literature, Entire Library

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

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

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

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...and perhaps minor, literature. Yet the postmodern composition of the...accents of silence...in postmodern literature: a the negative...ghost that haunts our postmodern...
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Containment Culture: American Narrative, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age » Read Now
by Alan Nadel. 336 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...important and recurring motifs of postmodern literature, art, philosophy, and critique...who accept that vision. In postmodernist writing, on the other hand...history but...
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The Play of the Double in Postmodern American Fiction » Read Now
by Gordon E. Slethaug. 236 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...History and criticism. 2. Postmodernism Literature -- United States. 3...reservations appear abundantly in postmodern literature and in poststructural...poststructuralist...
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Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction » Read Now
by Scott Bukatman. 410 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...edited several volumes of writing on what he and I both call "postmodern science fiction," similarly writes that SF possesses the capacity...reading protocols demanded by...
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Postmodernism: The Uninhabited Word, Critics' Symposium, in Critique » Read Now
by Robert Scholes. 20 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library

...the content or the literature normally being described as postmodern is dying or dead...postmodernism" to fiction or literature at all. Postmodernism is a very...
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Where Writing Begins: A Postmodern Reconstruction » Read Now
by Michael Carter. 259 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Education, Entire Library

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

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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The Postmodern Short Story: Forms and Issues » Read Now
by Farhat Iftekharrudin, Joseph Boyden, Mary Rohrberger, Jaie Claudet. 282 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library