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Index
Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
General Editors' Preface
Acknowledgements
Editor's Preface
Introduction: Reconstructions
Making it old: 'traditionalist modernism'
'Have a nice day, M. Derrida, M. Baudrillard'
Insider postmodernism: Jameson and Tomorrowland
Back to a New Futurism
PART ONE
Modernist Positions
1 GEORG LUKÁCS, from The Meaning of Contemporary Realism BERTOLT BRECHT from 'The Popular and the Realistic'
2 WALTER BENJAMIN, from 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction'
3 THEODOR ADORNO, 'Letter to Walter Benjamin'
4 PETER BÜRGER, 'Avant-Garde and Engagement'
Repositioning Modernism
5 MARSHALL BERMAN, 'The Twentieth Century: the Halo and the Highway'
6 RAYMOND WILLIAMS, 'The Metropolis and the Emergence of Modernism'
7 JEAN RADFORD, from 'Coming to terms: Dorothy Richardson, Modernism and Women'
8 HOUSTON A. BAKER Jnr, from Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance
9 LALEEN JAYAMANNE, GEETA KAPUR and YVONNE RAINER, from 'Discussing Modernity, "Third World" and The Man Who Envied Women'
PART TWO
Postmodern Narratives
10 JÜRGEN HABERMAS, 'Modernity - an Incomplete Project'
11 JEAN-FRANÇOIS LYOTARD, 'Answering the Question: What is Postmodernism?'
12 JEAN BAUDRILLARD, from 'Simulacra and Simulations'
13 FREDRIC JAMESON, 'Postmodernism and Consumer Society'
Popular Capitalism and Popular Culture
14 DAVID HARVEY, from The Condition of Postmodernity. An Enquiry into the Origins of Social Change
15 IAIN CHAMBERS, 'Contamination, Coincidence and Collusion. Pop Music, Urban Culture and the Avant-Garde'
A Feminist Postmodernism?
16 JULIA KRISTEVA, 'Postmodernism?'
17 LAURA KIPNIS, from 'Feminism: the Political Conscience of Postmodernism?'
Black Culture and Postmodernism
18 CORNEL WEST from 'An Interview with Cornell West Anders Stephanson'
Postmodernist Fiction
19 UMBERTO ECO, 'Postmodernism, Irony, the Enjoyable'
20 LINDA HUTCHEON, 'Telling Stories: Fiction and History'
21 CARLOS FUENTES, 'Words Apart'
Notes on Authors
Further Reading
Index
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