The Fiction of PostmodernityThe Fiction of Postmodernity is a significant and accessible study of the relation of postmodern fiction to theories of the postmodern. Contemporary works of fiction by novelists such as Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, Thomas Pynchon, and Martin Amis are viewed in relation to critiques of the "culture industry," analyses of the "postmodern condition," and theories of simulacra. The work of influential theorists of the postmodern--such as Theodor Adorno, Jean-François Lyotard, Fredric Jameson and Jean Baudrillard--is explained and compared. The book offers descriptions of the postmodern from both the Marxist critical tradition and from the perspective of postmarxism. Key features in both these definitions are explained in relation to modernist and postmodern works of fiction. Issues relating to the postmodern representation of history and the development of a postmodern politics are also addressed in relation to works of contemporary fiction. |
Contents
The Broken Promise Ideology and the Ageing of the New | 12 |
Georg Lukacs and the Reification of Consciousness | 13 |
Lukacs and the Novel | 18 |
Realism Modernism Totality and Faulkners The Sound and the Fury | 20 |
Caddy and Faulkners promesse du bonheur in The Sound and the Fury | 27 |
Adorno and the Culture Industry | 31 |
John Dos Passos USA | 36 |
Thomas Manns Doctor Faustus | 42 |
Don DeLillo and SelfConscious Postmodernism | 99 |
From Modernism to Postmodernism | 112 |
Postmodernity and the Historical Novel | 123 |
Reading Thomas Pynchons Mason Dixon | 128 |
The Ageing of the New | 136 |
The Art of Justification | 139 |
The Fetish of the New Culture and Class in Alasdair Grays Something Leather | 152 |
Salman Rushdie | 163 |
Postmodernism and the AvantGarde | 47 |
Jamesons Postmodernism | 52 |
Postmodern Reflections Thinking after Marxism | 62 |
JeanFrancois Lyotard and the Problem with Grand Narratives | 65 |
Lyotard Postmodernism and the Sublime | 68 |
Toni Morrisons Beloved | 69 |
Ideology and Simulacra | 79 |
Death and Cultural Consumption in Don DeLillo | 81 |
Goods and Simulacra | 83 |
Pastiche and Electronic Reproduction | 91 |
Aijaz Ahmad on Rushdie and the Postmodern | 164 |
Rushdie and Orientalism | 170 |
Postmodern Politics and The Satanic Verses | 173 |
The Satanic Verses and The New | 180 |
The Land of Oz | 188 |
Postmodern Inadequacies Adorno contra Jameson | 198 |
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References to this book
Fictions of Commodity Culture: From the Victorian to the Postmodern Christoph Lindner No preview available - 2003 |
A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture David Bradshaw,Kevin J. H. Dettmar No preview available - 2006 |