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The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodernism
Brian McHale
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Description for The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodernism
Paperback. This Introduction surveys the full spectrum of postmodern culture, from architecture and visual art to fiction, poetry, and drama. Series: Cambridge Introductions to Literature. Num Pages: 251 pages, 8 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 370.
The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodernism surveys the full spectrum of postmodern culture - high and low, avant-garde and popular, famous and obscure - across a range of fields, from architecture and visual art to fiction, poetry, and drama. It deftly maps postmodernism's successive historical phases, from its emergence in the 1960s to its waning in the first decades of the twenty-first century. Weaving together multiple strands of postmodernism - people and places from Andy Warhol, Jefferson Airplane and magical realism, to Jean-François Lyotard, Laurie Anderson and cyberpunk - this book creates a rich picture of a complex cultural phenomenon that ... Read more
The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodernism surveys the full spectrum of postmodern culture - high and low, avant-garde and popular, famous and obscure - across a range of fields, from architecture and visual art to fiction, poetry, and drama. It deftly maps postmodernism's successive historical phases, from its emergence in the 1960s to its waning in the first decades of the twenty-first century. Weaving together multiple strands of postmodernism - people and places from Andy Warhol, Jefferson Airplane and magical realism, to Jean-François Lyotard, Laurie Anderson and cyberpunk - this book creates a rich picture of a complex cultural phenomenon that ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Cambridge Introductions to Literature
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107605510
SKU
V9781107605510
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About Brian McHale
Brian McHale is Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of English at Ohio State University. He is the author of Postmodernist Fiction, Constructing Postmodernism, and The Obligation Toward the Difficult Whole. His articles have appeared in such journals as Diacritics, Genre, Modern Language Quarterly, Narrative, New Literary History, Poetics Today, Style, and Twentieth-Century Literature. He is currently co-editing, with Len Platt, ... Read more
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