Landscapes of Postmodernity
Title | Landscapes of Postmodernity PDF eBook |
Author | Petra Eckhard |
Publisher | LIT Verlag Münster |
Total Pages | 287 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 364350201X |
In Landscapes of Postmodernity, a group of young scholars link key concepts of postmodern thought to our present everyday experience in which we change our identities on a regular basis. While many of the essays look at less conventional modes of aesthetic representation - computer games, graphic novels, telenovelas, queer and animated films - others analyze more canonical works following less conventional approaches. Either way, the cultural and literary cartographies presented in this book allow America to be conceived as polymorphous or transnational, celebrating a new American self that is aware and proud of its non-Anglo-Saxon origins.
Transnational Landscapes and Postmodern Poetics
Title | Transnational Landscapes and Postmodern Poetics PDF eBook |
Author | Asma Hichri |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | 213 |
Release | 2017-11-06 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1527505065 |
This book moves beyond conventional conceptions of space and place to explore how the spatial imagination has informed our postmodern mapping of literature, culture, history, geography and politics. In this volume, scholars from different academic fields contest new territories for critical expression, venturing into a geocritical discussion of notions of identity, borders, territory, cognitive geographies, glocal cultural mobility, gendered spaces, (post)colonial cartographies, and spaces of resistance. These brilliant discussions of the postmodern dialectics of space and place invite a reappraisal of the value of space in our social, political and historical realities, thus extending the geographical imagination beyond its physical and territorial manifestations and investigating its hitherto uncharted spiritual, psychic, emotional, literary, and symbolic terrains. Bringing together theoretical and critical contributions in the fields of culture, history, politics, and literature, this engaging work invites readers to think geocritically about the significance of space and place in the postmodern age. It represents essential reading for students, critics, and scholars from various academic fields and disciplines, including history, geography, cultural studies, anthropology, political science, literature and critical theory.
Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Title | Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism PDF eBook |
Author | Fredric Jameson |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Total Pages | 474 |
Release | 1992-01-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780822310907 |
Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson’s most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of ”postmodernism”. Jameson’s inquiry looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from “high” art to “low” from market ideology to architecture, from painting to “punk” film, from video art to literature.
Postmodern Geographies
Title | Postmodern Geographies PDF eBook |
Author | Edward W. Soja |
Publisher | Verso |
Total Pages | 276 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9780860919360 |
Written by one of America's foremost geographers, Postmodern Geographies contests the tendency, still dominant in most social science, to reduce human geography to a reflective mirror, or, as Marx called it, an "unnecessary complication." Beginning with a powerful critique of historicism and its constraining effects on the geographical imagination, Edward Soja builds on the work of Foucault, Berger, Giddens, Berman, Jameson and, above all, Henri Lefebvre, to argue for a historical and geographical materialism, a radical rethinking of the dialectics of space, time and social being. Soja charts the respatialization of social theory from the still unfolding encounter between Western Marxism and modern geography, through the current debates on the emergence of a postfordist regime of "flexible accumulation." The postmodern geography of Los Angeles, exposed in a provocative pair of essays, serves as a model in his account of the contemporary struggle for control over the social production of space.
Landscapes of the New West
Title | Landscapes of the New West PDF eBook |
Author | Krista Comer |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | 324 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780807848135 |
In the early 1970s, empowered by the civil rights and women's movements, a new group of women writers began speaking to the American public. Their topic, broadly defined, was the postmodern American West. By the mid-1980s, their combined works made for a bona fide literary groundswell in both critical and commercial terms. However, as Krista Comer notes, despite the attentions of publishers, the media, and millions of readers, literary scholars have rarely addressed this movement or its writers. Too many critics, Comer argues, still enamored of western images that are both masculine and antimodern, have been slow to reckon with the emergence of a new, far more "feminine," postmodern, multiracial, and urban west. Here, she calls for a redesign of the field of western cultural studies, one that engages issues of gender and race and is more self-conscious about space itself_especially that cherished symbol of western "authenticity," open landscape. Surveying works by Joan Didion, Wanda Coleman, Maxine Hong Kingston, Leslie Marmon Silko, Barbara Kingsolver, Pam Houston, Louise Erdrich, Sandra Cisneros, and Mary Clearman Blew, Comer shows how these and other contemporary women writers have mapped new geographical imaginations upon the cultural and social spaces of today's American West.
China, Transnational Visuality, Global Postmodernity
Title | China, Transnational Visuality, Global Postmodernity PDF eBook |
Author | Hsiao-peng Lu |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | 348 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780804742047 |
By focusing on Chinese cultural formations and critical discourses of the last decade of the century, the author dissects the intellectual, economic, and political contradictions of a turbulent era. This wide-ranging, deeply interdisciplinary work demarcates the cultural terrain by examining diverse media: film, television, avant-garde art, and literature, as well as critical theory and intellectual history.
City as Landscape
Title | City as Landscape PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Turner |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | 262 |
Release | 2014-04-04 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1136742204 |
In twenty essays, this book covers aspects of planning, architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, park and garden design. Their approach, described as post-postmodern, is a challenge to the 'anything goes' eclecticism of the merely postmodern.