Ethics And Desire In The Wake Of Postmodernism

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Ethics and Desire in the Wake of Postmodernism

Author : Graham Matthews
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441134395
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Ethics and Desire in the Wake of Postmodernism written by Graham Matthews and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the significance of writing in the wake of postmodernism? The previous decade has seen a growing interest in criticism of postmodern ethics and aesthetics from theorists and writers. This book begins to answer what art form or critical methodology might take its place. Exploring the work of six contemporary novelists - Bret Easton Ellis, J.G. Ballard, Will Self, Michel Houellebecq, Tama Janowitz and Chuck Palahniuk - Ethics and Desire in the Wake of Postmodernism delivers a series of interventions into six key areas of contemporary debate: fear, nihilism, revolution, ethics, enjoyment and feminism. The book goes on to develop an innovative critical methodology which reinvigorates the ability of art and literature to engage in ideological critique. Rather than valorising separatism, plurality or indeterminacy, this approach delivers a critical framework which enacts a radical de-centering of the fundamental coordinates of contemporary society.

Postmodern Ethics

Author : Zygmunt Bauman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9785404212617
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Postmodern Ethics written by Zygmunt Bauman and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Post-Theories in Literary and Cultural Studies

Author : Zekiye Antakyalıoğlu
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 166691388X
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Post-Theories in Literary and Cultural Studies written by Zekiye Antakyalıoğlu and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-04-25 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-Theories in Literary and Cultural Studies brings to attention the post-theoretical discussions on the changing perceptions in literary and cultural studies. In four sections the volume presents essays that trace the engagement of post-theory with post-postmodernism, posthumanism, ethics, and politics.

Postmodern Ethics

Author : S. G. Karsten
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781883199043
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Postmodern Ethics written by S. G. Karsten and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ethics and Aesthetics

Author : Gerhard Hoffmann (Dr. phil.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethics and Aesthetics written by Gerhard Hoffmann (Dr. phil.) and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Comic Turn in Contemporary English Fiction

Author : Huw Marsh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474293050
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book The Comic Turn in Contemporary English Fiction written by Huw Marsh and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Comic Turn in Contemporary English Fiction explores the importance of comedy in contemporary literature and culture. In an era largely defined by a mood of crisis, bleakness, cruelty, melancholia, environmental catastrophe and collapse, Huw Marsh argues that contemporary fiction is as likely to treat these subjects comically as it is to treat them gravely, and that the recognition and proper analysis of this humour opens up new ways to think about literature. Structured around readings of authors including Martin Amis, Nicola Barker, Julian Barnes, Jonathan Coe, Howard Jacobson, Magnus Mills and Zadie Smith, this book suggests not only that much of the most interesting contemporary writing is funny and that there is a comic tendency in contemporary fiction, but also that this humour, this comic licence, allows writers of contemporary fiction to do peculiar and interesting things – things that are funny in the sense of odd or strange and that may in turn inspire a funny turn in readers. Marsh offers a series of original critical and theoretical frameworks for discussing questions of literary genre, style, affect and politics, demonstrating that comedy is an often neglected mode that plays a generative role in much of the most interesting contemporary writing, creating sites of rich political, stylistic, cognitive and ethical contestation whose analysis offers a new perspective on the present.

The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature

Author : W. Michelle Wang
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000220745
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature written by W. Michelle Wang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature seeks to understand the ways in which literature has engaged deeply with the ever-evolving relationship humanity has with its ultimate demise. It is the most comprehensive collection in this growing field of study and includes essays by Brian McHale, Catherine Belling, Ronald Schleifer, Helen Swift, and Ira Nadel, as well as the work of a generation of younger scholars from around the globe, who bring valuable transnational insights. Encompassing a diverse range of mediums and genres – including biography and autobiography, documentary, drama, elegy, film, the novel and graphic novel, opera, picturebooks, poetry, television, and more – the contributors offer a dynamic mix of approaches that range from expansive perspectives on particular periods and genres to extended analyses of select case studies. Essays are included from every major Western period, including Classical, Middle Ages, Renaissance, and so on, right up to the contemporary. This collection provides a telling demonstration of the myriad ways that humanity has learned to live with the inevitability of death, where “live with” itself might mean any number of things: from consoling, to memorializing, to rationalizing, to fending off, to evading, and, perhaps most compellingly of all, to escaping. Engagingly written and drawing on examples from around the world, this volume is indispensable to both students and scholars working in the fields of medical humanities, thanatography (death studies), life writing, Victorian studies, modernist studies, narrative, contemporary fiction, popular culture, and more.

Postmodern Ethics

Author : Zygmunt Bauman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Postmodern Ethics written by Zygmunt Bauman and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Late-Career Novelist

Author : Hywel Dix
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350030082
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Late-Career Novelist written by Hywel Dix and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first scholarly study of the phenomenon of the 'late-career novel', this book explores the ways in which bestselling contemporary novelists look back and respond to their earlier successes in their subsequent writings. Exploring the work of major novelists such as Angela Carter, V.S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, Julian Barnes, A.S. Byatt and Graham Swift, The Late-Career Novelist draws for the first time on social psychology and career construction theory to examine how the dynamics of a literary career play out in the fictional worlds of our best-known novelists. From here, Hywel Dix develops and argues for a new mode of reading contemporary writing on the contexts of current literary culture.

Autofiction in English

Author : Hywel Dix
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319899023
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (198 download)

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Download or read book Autofiction in English written by Hywel Dix and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-04 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative volume establishes autofiction as a new and dynamic area of theoretical research in English. Since the term was coined by Serge Doubrovsky, autofiction has become established as a recognizable genre within the French literary pantheon. Yet unlike other areas of French theory, English-language discussion of autofiction has been relatively limited - until now. Starting out by exploring the characteristic features and definitions of autofiction from a conceptual standpoint, the collection identifies a number of cultural, historical and theoretical contexts in which the emergence of autofiction in English can be understood. In the process, it identifies what is new and distinctive about Anglophone forms of autofiction when compared to its French equivalents. These include a preoccupation with the conditions of authorship; writing after trauma; and a heightened degree of authorial self-reflexivity beyond that typically associated with postmodernism. By concluding that there is such a field as autofiction in English, it provides for the first time detailed analysis of the major works in that field and a concise historical overview of its emergence. It thus opens up new avenues in life writing and authorship research.

Ethics in Postmodern Fiction

Author : Barbara Schwerdtfeger
Publisher : Universitatsverlag Winter
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethics in Postmodern Fiction written by Barbara Schwerdtfeger and published by Universitatsverlag Winter. This book was released on 2005 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postmodern texts have generally been associated with a radical challenge of established conventions and with an "anything goes" mentality, which seems to exclude serious ethical discussion. While the postmodern texts of the American novel and short-story writers Donald Barthelme and William Gass indeed challenge traditional ethical rules, they are nonetheless deeply concerned with moral questions. Using contemporary ethics as its theoretical framework, the study shows that the fiction of Barthelme and Gass not only makes readers aware of the complexity of ethical issues but also argues that the premise for good ethical behavior is to have the right - postmodern - attitude: to be open-minded, flexible, and able to deal with the ambiguities of life. Retrospectively, these findings can also be applied to other postmodern writers to reveal the hidden ethical dimensions of their fictions.

Living and Value

Author : Frederick Ferre
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791450598
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Living and Value written by Frederick Ferre and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2001-06-07 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on an ecologically inspired wordview, defends ethics against skepticism and irrealism.

Postmodernity, Ethics and the Novel

Author : Andrew Gibson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134638647
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Postmodernity, Ethics and the Novel written by Andrew Gibson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Postmodernity, Ethics and the Novel Andrew Gibson sets out to demonstrate that postmodern theory has actually made possible an ethical discourse around fiction. Each chapter elaborates and discusses a particular aspect of Levinas' thought and raises questions for that thought and its bearing on the novel. It also contains detailed analyses of particular texts. Part of the book's originality is its concentration on a range of modernist and postmodern novels which have seldom if ever served as the basis for a larger ethical theory of fiction. Postmodernity, Ethics and the Novel discusses among others the writings of Joseph Conrad, Henry James, Jane Austen, Samuel Beckett, Marcel Proust and Salman Rushdie.

The New Age Ethic and the Spirit of Postmodernity

Author : Carmen Kuhling
Publisher : Hampton Press (NJ)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Age Ethic and the Spirit of Postmodernity written by Carmen Kuhling and published by Hampton Press (NJ). This book was released on 2004 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book draws on phenomenology, interpretive hermeneutics, anthropological cultural studies, psychoanalysis, feminism, deconstructionism and Marxism in exploring how the new age can inform us with regard to modern/postmodern relations with Nature, our ambivalent perceptions of self and other, essentialism and relativism, and epistemology and ontology. Further, the book raises the question of the purpose and meaning of subcultures in contemporary society, and our collective relationship to utopias and dystopias."--BOOK JACKET.

Narratives at the Beginning of the 3rd Millennium

Author : Jessica Homberg-Schramm
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443855545
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Narratives at the Beginning of the 3rd Millennium written by Jessica Homberg-Schramm and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a cross-disciplinary approach to narratives in the 21st century, in response to the growing scholarly concern with the decreasing explanatory capacity of theoretical concepts and narrative configurations originating in postmodernism. The essays collected here meet this conceptual gap by offering cutting-edge research from a variety of disciplines, such as literary studies and design and media studies, as well as social sciences, all of which employ narrative models to explore the distinctive patterns which shape contemporary conceptions of the 3rd millennium.

Lawrence Durrell, Postmodernism and the Ethics of Alterity

Author : Stefan Herbrechter
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042004818
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Lawrence Durrell, Postmodernism and the Ethics of Alterity written by Stefan Herbrechter and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1999 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is of interest for any reader wishing to explore the interface between literature, and critical and cultural theory. It investigates the notions of alterity which underlie the work of Lawrence Durrell and postmodernist theory. Grass (Irmgard Elsner Hunt).

The Persistence of Modernity

Author : Albrecht Wellmer
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0262731096
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book The Persistence of Modernity written by Albrecht Wellmer and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1993-10-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on Adorno's aesthetics, the nature of a postmodern ethics, and the persistence of modernity in the so-called postmodern age. The Persistence of Modernity presents four essays by one of Germany's foremost philosophers that go to the heart of a number of contemporary issues: Adorno's aesthetics, the nature of a postmodern ethics, and the persistence of modernity in the so-called postmodern age. Albrecht Wellmer defends the general thesis that modernity contains its own critique and that what has been called postmodernism is in fact a further articulation of that critique. More specifically, his essays offer a reinterpretation of Adorno's aesthetics in the framework of a postutopian philosophy of communicative reason, an analysis of the postmodern critique of instrumental reason and its subject that becomes an argument for democratic pluralism and universalism, a discussion of the dialectics of modernism and postmodernism in the context of architecture and industrial design, and a dialogical ethics that is inspired by and yet takes issue with Habermas's discourse ethics.