Postmodernism : a reader /
[edited by] Patricia Waugh.
- viii, 226 pages ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-223) and index.
Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Modernism and post modernism / Modernism and the aesthetics of crisis / Mass society and postmodern fiction / Cross the border - close the gap / Against interpretation / From A Sense of an Ending / From Paracriticisms / The detective and the boundary: some notes on the postmodern literary imagination / An answer to the question: what is enlightenment? / What is enlightenment? / From Twilight of the Idols/The Antichrist / Answering the question: what is postmodernism? / Periodising the sixties / Capitalism, modernism and post modernism / Modernity - an incomplete project / From Contingency, Irony and Solidarity / From Simulations / Modernism, postmodernism, feminism: gender and autonomy theory / From A Poetics of Postmodernism / From Postmodernist Fiction / Bibliography -- Index. Anthony Giddens -- Alan Wilde -- Irving Howe -- Leslie Fiedler -- Susan Sontag -- Frank Kermode -- Ihab Hassan -- William Spanos -- Immanuel Kant -- Michael Foucault -- Friedrich Nietzsche -- Jean-Francois Lyotar -- Feredric Jameson -- Terry Eagleton -- Jurgen Habermas -- Richard Rorty -- Jean Baudrillard -- Patricia Waugh -- Linda Hutcheon -- Brian McHale -- Sect. 1. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.
"Postmodernism provides a collection of the incessantly cited but nevertheless still widely-scattered critical texts on postmodernism and literary theory. It includes all the "classics" as well as some less obvious, though no less stimulating, choices. An introduction and commentary by PatWaugh provides essential information and offers a context within which to view the chosen texts."--Publisher description.