The passing of postmodernism: a spectroanalysis of the contemporary / Josh Toth.
Tipo de material: TextoIdioma: Inglés Detalles de publicación: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2011 Descripción: 210 pISBN: 9781438430362Tema(s): Derrida, Jacques -- Criticism and interpretation | Postmodernismo (Literatura) | Semiotics and literatureFormatos físicos adicionales: Sin títuloClasificación CDD: 809/.9113 Resumen: The Passing of Postmodernism addresses the increasingly prevalent assumption that a period marked by poststructuralism and metafiction has passed and that literature and film are once again engaging sincerely with issues of ethics and politics. In discussions of various twentieth- and twenty-first-century writers, directors, and theorists--from Michel Foucault and Slavoj Zizek to Thomas Pynchon and David Lynch--Josh Toth demonstrates that a certain utopian spirit persisted within, and actually defined, the postmodern project. Just as modernism was animated by an idealistic belief that it could finally realize the utopia beckoning on the horizon, postmodernism was compelled by an equally utopian belief that it could finally reject the possibility of all such illusory ideals. Toth argues that this specter of an impossible future is and must remain both possible and impossible, a ghostly promise of what is always still to come.Tipo de ítem | Biblioteca de origen | Signatura | Estado | Fecha de vencimiento | Código de barras | Reserva de ítems |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Passing of Postmodernism addresses the increasingly prevalent assumption that a period marked by poststructuralism and metafiction has passed and that literature and film are once again engaging sincerely with issues of ethics and politics. In discussions of various twentieth- and twenty-first-century writers, directors, and theorists--from Michel Foucault and Slavoj Zizek to Thomas Pynchon and David Lynch--Josh Toth demonstrates that a certain utopian spirit persisted within, and actually defined, the postmodern project. Just as modernism was animated by an idealistic belief that it could finally realize the utopia beckoning on the horizon, postmodernism was compelled by an equally utopian belief that it could finally reject the possibility of all such illusory ideals. Toth argues that this specter of an impossible future is and must remain both possible and impossible, a ghostly promise of what is always still to come.
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