Postmodernism A Reader

Postmodernism provides a collection of the incessantly cited but nevertheless still widely-scattered critical texts on postmodernism and literary theory. It includes all the "classics" as well as some less obvious, though no less stimulating, choices. An introduction and commentary by Pat Waugh provides essential information and offers a context within which to view the chosen texts.

Acknowledgements

vii

Introduction

1

(10)

Section One: Modernism and Postmodernism

Anthony Giddens, `Modernism and Postmodernism'

11

(3)

Alan Wilde, `Modernism and the Aesthetics of Crisis'

14

(10)

Section Two: Postmodernism and Literary History

Introduction

22

(2)

Irving Howe, `Mass Society and Postmodern Fiction'

24

(7)

Leslie Fiedler, `Cross the Border - Close the Gap'

31

(17)

Susan Sontag, `Against Interpretation'

48

(8)

Frank Kermode, From A Sense of an Ending

56

(4)

Ihab Hassan, From Paracriticisms

60

(18)

William Spanos, `The Detective and the Boundary: Some Notes on the Postmodern Literary Imagination'

78

(11)

Section Three: The Critique of Enlightened Modernity: Philosophical Precursors

Introduction

87

(2)

Immanuel Kant, `An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?'

89

(7)

Michael Foucault, `What is Enlightenment?'

96

(12)

Friedrich Nietzsche, From Twilight of the Idols/The Antichrist

108

(9)

Section Four: Postmodern Theory: The Current Debate

Introduction

113

(4)

Jean-Francois Lyotard, `Answering the Question: What is Postmodernism?'

117

(8)

Fredric Jameson, `Periodising the Sixties'

125

(27)

Terry Eagleton, `Capitalism, Modernism and Postmodernism'

152

(8)

Jurgen Habermas, `Modernity - An Incomplete Project'

160

(10)

Richard Rorty, From Contingency, Irony and Solidarity

170

(16)

Jean Baudrillard, From Simulations

186

(3)

Patricia Waugh, `Modernism, Postmodernism, Feminism: Gender and Autonomy Theory'

189

(17)

Section Five: Reading Postmodern Artefacts

Introduction

205

(1)

Linda Hutcheon, From A Poetics of Postmodernism

206

(5)

Brian McHale, From Postmodernist Fiction

211

(8)

Bibliography

219

(6)

Index

225

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