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1	Postmodernism, or, The cultural logic of late capitalism more books like this by Professor Fredric Jameson add to wishlist Jameson's study of the cultural, political and social implications of postmodernism. see all copies from $13.50! new only from $19.98! \| SVS
2	Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology more books like this by Paula Geyh (Editor), Andrew Levy (Editor), Fred G Leebron (Editor) add to wishlist The first anthology to do full justice to the vast range of postwar American innovations in the art of fiction, "Postmodern American Fiction" presents a deep and wide collection of short fiction, novel excerpts, cartoons, hypertexts, creative nonfiction, and theoretical writings by 68 writers, ranging from Thomas Pynchon and William Burroughs to ... see all copies from $6.00! new only from $14.39! \| first editions \| SVS
3	A Poetics of Postmodernism more books like this by Linda Hutcheon, Hutcheon Linda add to wishlist A Poetics of Postmodernism is neither a defence nor a denunciation of the postmodern. It continues the project of Linda Hutcheon's Narcissistic Narrative and A Theory of Parody in studying formal self-consciousness in art, but adds to this both a historical and an ideological dimension. see all copies from $16.00! new only from $28.34! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Postmodern Literary Theory: An Anthology more books like this by Niall Lucy (Editor) add to wishlist Literature today is a very different concept from that of only a generation ago, and this difference is attributed usually to 'postmodernism' as a powerful signifier of the radically new and challenging. Most radical of all is the possibility that the very notion of literature is rendered untenable by postmodernism. How did this possibility arise? ... see all copies from $6.00! new only from $24.99! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Postmodern Theory more books like this by Steven Best, Ph.D., Professor Douglas Kellner, Ph.D. add to wishlist In this timely volume, the authors systematically analyze postmodern theory to evaluate its relevance for critical social theory and radical politics today. Best and Kellner provide: * An introduction and critique of the work of Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, Baudrillard, Lyotard, Laclau and Mouffe, and Jameson, which assess the varying ... see all copies from $4.16! new only from $17.39! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Addressing Postmodernity: Kenneth Burke, Rhetoric, and a Theory of Social Change more books like this by Barbara A Biesecker add to wishlist This text examines the relationship between rhetoric and social change, and how people transform social relations through the use of symbols. It focuses on the work of Kenneth Burke, to discern the conditions of possibility for social transformation and the role of people and rhetoric in it. see all copies from $4.20! new only from $4.63! \| SVS
7	The other voice : essays on modern poetry. more books like this by Octavio Paz add to wishlist In seven elegant essays that range across centuries and literatures, Paz offers his thoughts on how modern poetry came to be, what makes it "modern," and what it may become. Translated by Helen Lane see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.94! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Origins of Postmodernity more books like this by Perry Anderson add to wishlist This book surveys the convoluted history of the term "postmodernism" and the widely various concepts that have been attached to that term. Beginning with a discussion of modernist intellectual life in the 1930s, the history moves on through discussions of Baudrillard, Lyotard, and Habermas before reaching its central subject, the literary and ... see all copies from $4.61! new only from $16.95! \| SVS
9	To Relish the Sublime?: Culture and Self-Realization in Postmodern Times more books like this by Sir Martin Ryle, Kate Soper add to wishlist In this work, the authors explore the growing tensions and contradictions between Matthew Arnold's enduring ideal (that human beings "must be compelled to relish the sublime") and the contemporary world of work, pleasure and consumption. Whilst critical of the hypocrisies and elitism that can attach to notions of cultural self-realization, the ... see all copies from $4.00! new only from $5.96! \| first editions
10	Postmodern Reader more books like this by Linda Hutcheon (Editor), Joseph Natoli (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $7.45! new only from $25.90! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The Seeds of Time more books like this by Professor Fredric Jameson add to wishlist -- The Nation see all copies from $2.33! new only from $27.00! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Dismemberment of Orpheus more books like this by Ihab Hassan add to wishlist see all copies from $10.37! new only from $14.78! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	At War with the Word: Literary Theory and Liberal Education more books like this by R V Young add to wishlist R.V. Young examines the dominant trends in literary theory during the past thirty years, chronicling their effect on the teaching of literature and the imparting of a liberal education. see all copies from $2.64! new only from $5.48! \| first editions
14 view cover	Early Postmodernism - PB more books like this by Paul A Bove (Editor), Paul a Bove (Editor), David Antin (Contributions by) add to wishlist In the decade that followed 1972, the journal "boundary 2" consistently published many of the most distinguished and most influential statements of an emerging literary postmodernism. Recognizing postmodernism as a dominant force in culture, particularly in the literary and narrative imagination, the journal appeared when literary critical study ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $12.95! \| first editions
15 view cover	The Death of Literature more books like this by Alvin B Kernan add to wishlist In this book, the author looks at some of the agents that have contributed to literature's demise and ponders whether its vitality can be restored in the changing circumstances of late 20th century culture. The author relates the death of literature to potent forces in our post-industrial world - most obviously, the technological revolution that ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.19! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Modern Skeletons in Postmodern Closets: A Cultural Studies Alternative more books like this by James J Sosnoski add to wishlist This work argues that the disciplinary approach is inappropriate and debilitating for cultural and literary studies, because it cannot deal with the diversity, particuliarity and complexity of literature and tends to reduce these to a uniformity it can master. see all copies from $2.95! new only from $2.95! \| first editions \| SVS
17	Post-Modern Aura: The Act of Fiction in an Age of Inflation more books like this by Charles Hamilton Newman, Gerald Graff (Preface by) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Contemporary American Literature: (1945-Present) more books like this by Erik V R Rangno, Jerry Phillips (Editor), Michael Anesko (Contributions by) add to wishlist American literature of the 20th century focuses on a variety of topics, from the violence of war and the struggle for civil rights to the social impact of technology and the moral significance of money. A concise, engaging guide to American contemporary literature, this volume provides information on 20th-century writers; the 1950s, 1960s, and ... see all copies from $22.59! new only from $34.05! \| SVS
19 view cover	A Trauma Artist: Tim O'Brien and the Fiction of Vietnam more books like this by Mark A Heberle add to wishlist This study examines how Tim O'Brien's works variously rewrite his own traumatization during the war in Vietnam by offering a never-ending fiction that "recovers" personal experience by both recapturing and (re)disguising it. The critique is set in the context of postmodern metafiction. see all copies from $9.76! new only from $23.50! \| SVS
20 view cover	Postmodern Pooh more books like this by Frederick Crews add to wishlist Presents eleven essays that parody contemporary literary criticism through a fictional panel on Winnie the Pooh. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	The Postmodern Turn: Essays in Postmodern Theory and Culture more books like this by Ihab Hassan add to wishlist see all copies from $37.00! new only from $95.00! \| first editions
22 view cover	Black Chant: Languages of African-American Postmodernism more books like this by Aldon Lynn Nielsen add to wishlist Black Chant traces the embrace and transformation of black modernisms and postmodernisms by African-American poets in the decades after the Second World War. Focusing on groups of avant-garde poets, including the Howard/Dasein poets, the Freelance Group, the Umbra Group, and others, the study pays particular attention to those poets whose radical ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.99! \| SVS
23 view cover	Theory as Resistance: Politics and Culture After (Post)structuralism more books like this by Mas'ud Zavarzadeh, Donald Morton add to wishlist see all copies from $3.79! new only from $4.63! \| first editions
24 view cover	Reading Matters: Narrative in the New Media Ecology more books like this by Joseph Tabbi (Editor), Michael Wutz (Editor) add to wishlist The twelve original essays, published here for the first time, are the work of distinguished scholar-critics on both sides of the Atlantic. They cover the range of contemporary literature, from the canonical novels of high modernism and postmodernism through subjects only recently put on the academic agenda, such as cyberpunk and hypertext fiction ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.63!
25 view cover	The Cultural Turn: Selected Writings on the Postmodern, 1983-1998 more books like this by Professor Fredric Jameson add to wishlist A collection of essays written over the course of 15 years, this book shows Jameson in a more Hegelian stance than originally suggested in the books he published while he was writing these essays. For instance, an early form of Jameson's famous postmodernism essay appears here, and it offers a less exuberant, more critical appraisal of the ideas ... see all copies from $3.63! new only from $8.15! \| first editions \| SVS

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