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The Cambridge introduction to postmodernism / Brian McHale, Ohio State University.

By: Material type: TextTextDescription: xii, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781107021259 (Hardback)
  • 9781107605510 (Paperback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809/.9113 23
LOC classification:
  • PN98.P67 M38 2015
Contents:
Introduction: What was postmodernism?: Changing tenses ; Coming attractions -- 1. Before postmodernism: Postmodernism and its precursors ; Changing dominants ; The last avant-garde -- 2. Big bang: Crash ; Bang ; Complexity and contradiction ; The tipping point ; High and low ; Made, unmade, ready-made ; Strange loops -- Alice: Curious Alice ; Postmodern Alice ; Go ask Alice ; Trips vs. Missions -- 3. The major phase: peak postmodernism, 1973-90: Rebranding ; "Theory" ; Megafictions ; Avant-pop ; Cyberpunk ; Users' manuals ; Pictures and the return of painting ; Downtown, or, the capital of postmodernism -- Prospero's books: Enchanted islands ; Caliban's play ; The women's play ; The shipwreck play ; Prospero's books ; Masques of postmodernism -- 4. Interregnum, 1989-2001: Between ; Late ; Virtuality, or, all that is solid melts into air ; After gravity, or, anxieties of influence ; Anti-gravity ; Arts of suspension ; Planet China -- Angels in America: Angels everywhere ; Gravity's angels ; Close encounters ; Annunciations ; The last of the angels? -- 5. After postmodernism: Millennium approaches ... and recedes ; Post-postmodernism, at last? ; Intensities and mutations ; The end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine) -- Ruins: "American has no ruins" ; Sham ruin ; Ruin porn ; Manifest destiny.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-220) and index.

Introduction: What was postmodernism?: Changing tenses ; Coming attractions -- 1. Before postmodernism: Postmodernism and its precursors ; Changing dominants ; The last avant-garde -- 2. Big bang: Crash ; Bang ; Complexity and contradiction ; The tipping point ; High and low ; Made, unmade, ready-made ; Strange loops -- Alice: Curious Alice ; Postmodern Alice ; Go ask Alice ; Trips vs. Missions -- 3. The major phase: peak postmodernism, 1973-90: Rebranding ; "Theory" ; Megafictions ; Avant-pop ; Cyberpunk ; Users' manuals ; Pictures and the return of painting ; Downtown, or, the capital of postmodernism -- Prospero's books: Enchanted islands ; Caliban's play ; The women's play ; The shipwreck play ; Prospero's books ; Masques of postmodernism -- 4. Interregnum, 1989-2001: Between ; Late ; Virtuality, or, all that is solid melts into air ; After gravity, or, anxieties of influence ; Anti-gravity ; Arts of suspension ; Planet China -- Angels in America: Angels everywhere ; Gravity's angels ; Close encounters ; Annunciations ; The last of the angels? -- 5. After postmodernism: Millennium approaches ... and recedes ; Post-postmodernism, at last? ; Intensities and mutations ; The end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine) -- Ruins: "American has no ruins" ; Sham ruin ; Ruin porn ; Manifest destiny.