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The post-modern reader / edited by Charles Jencks.
Contributor(s): Jencks, Charles
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BookPublisher: London : Academy Group, 1992Description: 416 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 1854901079.Subject(s): Postmodernism (Literature)DDC classification: 700.904
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 700.904 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00060057 |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This anthology presents the synthesising trend in all its diversity and includes key historical texts by Daniel Bell and Jena-Francois Lyotard as well as seminal papers by Andreas Huyssen, James Collins, Umberto Eco, John Barth, Linda Hutcheon, David Lodge, among others. This book includes: New Culture Theory, Late Modernism as Post-Modernism, Literature, Art, Architecture, Film, Sociology, Politics, Geography, Feminism, Science and Religion.
Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Charles Jencks,Preface (p. 6)
- List of Contributors (p. 8)
- Chapter 1 New Culture Theory
- The Postmodern Agenda (p. 10)
- Mapping the Postmodern (p. 40)
- Postscript to The Name of the Rose (p. 73)
- Theorising the Postmodern (p. 76)
- Post-Modernism as Culmination (p. 94)
- Defining the Post-Modern (p. 119)
- Chapter 2 Late Modernism as Post-modernism
- What is Postmodernism? (p. 138)
- The Ecstasy of Communication (p. 151)
- Modernity: An Unfinished Project (p. 158)
- Chapter 3 Literature, Art, Architecture, Film
- The Literature of Replenishment (p. 172)
- Mimesis and Diegesis in Modern Fiction (p. 181)
- Pluralism in Postmodern Perspective (p. 196)
- What is the Postmodern? (p. 208)
- The Post-Avant-Garde (p. 215)
- Blue Velvet: Postmodern Contradictions (p. 225)
- Postmodern Architecture (p. 234)
- Chapter 4 Sociology, Politics, Geography
- The Coming of the Post-Industrial Society (p. 250)
- Fordism and Post-Fordism (p. 267)
- Taking Los Angeles Apart (p. 277)
- The Condition of Postmodernity (p. 299)
- Chapter 5 Feminism
- Feminism and Postmodernism (p. 318)
- The Discourse of Others (p. 333)
- Chapter 6 Science and Religion
- Chaos and Complexity (p. 350)
- The Reenchantment of Science (p. 354)
- Creativity and Postmodern Religion (p. 373)
- Postmodern Science and a Postmodern World (p. 383)
- The Postmodern Challenge to Biology (p. 392)
- Gala and Evolution (p. 399)
- Why We Need a Global Ethic (p. 409)