TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wheale,Nigel
TI  - The postmodern arts: an introductory reader 
T2  - Critical readers in theory and practice
SN  - 0415077761
AV  - NX456.5.M64 P67 1995
U1  - 700.1 
PY  - 1995///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Modernism (Art)
KW  - Postmodernism
KW  - Arts, Modern
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Popular culture
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; List of plates --; List of contributors --; General editor's preface --; Acknowledgements --; Paradigms of the Postmodern --; Modernism and Its Consequences: Continuity or Break? --; Postmodernism: from Elite to Mass Culture? --; Conclusion: Resisting the Postmodern --; Popular Music and Postmodern Theory --; Recognizing a 'human-Thing': Cyborgs, Robots and Replicants in Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Ridley Scott's Blade Runner --; Melancholy Meanings: Architecture, Postmodernity and Philosophy --; 'The World Is Indeed a Fabulous Tale': Yve Lomax - a Practice around Photography --; Televising Hell: Tom Phillips and Peter Greenaway's TV Dante --; A New Subjectivity? John Ashbery's Three Poems --; Reading The Satanic Verses --; The Totalizing Quest of Meaning --; Index
N2  - "The Postmodern Arts: An Introductory Reader is an indispensable aid for an improved understanding of modern literature and cultural studies, providing vital material and guidance to current issues and debates. Divided into two halves, the first section is a comprehensive introduction by the editor, offering a schematic survey of the major themes and positions taken with regard to modernism and postmodernism. The second is a collection of pertinent essays grouped into four sections to demonstrate how the debates have been applied to specific cultural activities. Contributors: Andrew Goodwin, Hillary Gresty, Yve Lomax, Julien Roberts, Gayatri Spivak, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Nigel Wheale."--Publisher description
ER  -