Postmodernist Culture - Steven Connor

Postmodernist Culture

An Introduction to Theories of the Contemporary

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Buch | Softcover
352 Seiten
1996 | 2nd edition
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-0-631-20052-9 (ISBN)
52,30 inkl. MwSt
Considers the work of the most influential postmodern theorists, including Lyotard and Jameson, and offers accounts both of the work of newly emerging theorists and new areas of postmodernist culture which have developed over the years, especially in law, music, dance, spatial theory, ethnography, ecology, and the new technologies.
In this completely revised and considerably expanded new edition, Steven Connor considers the recent work of the most influential postmodern theorists, including Lyotard and Jameson, and offers accounts both of the work of newly emerging theorists and new areas of postmodernist culture which have developed over the last decade, especially in law, music, dance, spatial theory, ethnography, ecology, and the new technologies.

Steven Kevin Connor, FBA is a British literary scholar. Since 2012, he has been the Grace 2 Professor of English in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge.

Preface. Acknowledgements.

Part I: Contexts.

1. Postmodernism and the Academy.

Part II: Posterities. .

2. Postmodernities: Postmodern Social and Legal Theory.

3. Postmodernism in Architecture and the Visual Arts.

4. Postmodernism and Literature.

5. Postmodern Performance.

6. Postmodern TV, Video and Film.

7. Postmodernism and Popular Culture.

Part III: Consequences.

8 Post-Modesty: Renunciation and the Sublime.

9. Postmodernism and Cultural Politics.

Bibliography.

Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.12.1996
Verlagsort Hoboken
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 490 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Neuzeit
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Allgemeine Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-631-20052-5 / 0631200525
ISBN-13 978-0-631-20052-9 / 9780631200529
Zustand Neuware
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