Postmodernist Culture : An Introduction to Theories of the Contemporary

Connor, Steven

ISBN 10: 0631162046 / ISBN 13: 9780631162049

Published by Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 1989

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Postmodernist Culture : An Introduction to Theories of the Contemporary
• Publisher: Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0631162046
• ISBN 13: 9780631162049
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 0.95 pounds

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Synopsis

In exploring postmodern debates across disciplines and genres, the author considers the institutional conditions and intellectual regroupings which frame postmodern theory and shows that the theory, although proclaiming a diversity in global culture, is itself a form of intellectual containment. He discusses the theory in philosophy, political theory, architecture, art, photography, literature, drama, film, television, popular culture, media and contemporary cultural politics and treats the postmodernist debate as a self-reflexive phenomenon, whose nature and form reflect the conditions of the postmodern. The author's previous books are "Samuel Beckett, Repetition, Theory and Text" and "Charles Dickens".

Review

The best overall attempt to consider the postmodern debate across the board – from philosophy to literature to film to architecture to pop video and to popular culture – in an accessible and open style." Malcolm Bradbury, The Guardian (of the first edition)