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Productive Postmodernism addresses the differing accounts of postmodernism found in the work of Fredric Jameson and Linda Hutcheon, a debate that centers around the two theorists' senses of pastiche and parody. For Jameson, postmodern texts are ahistorical, playing with pastiched images and aesthetic forms, and are therefore unable to provide a critical purchase on culture and capital. For Hutcheon, postmodern fiction and architecture remain political, opening spaces for social critique through a parody that deconstructs official history. Thinking in the space between these two sharply different positions, the essays in this collection investigate a broad range of contemporary fiction, film, and architecture—from such narratives as Don DeLillo's Libra, Toni Morrison's Beloved, and Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, to the vastly different spaces of Las Vegas casinos and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum—in order to ask what the cultural work of a postmodern aesthetic might be.
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Since the 1960's, William Faulkner, Mississippi's most famous author, has been recognized as a central figure of international modernism. But might Faulkner's fiction be understood in relation to Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow as well as James Joyce's Ulysses? In eleven essays from the 1999 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, held at the University of Mississippi, Faulkner and Postmodernism examines William Faulkner and his fiction in light of postmodern literature, culture, and theory. The volume explores the variety of ways Faulkner's art can be used to measure similarities and differerent...
Faulkner, William --- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977. Pale Fire --- Conferences - Meetings --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Literary movements --- Literature, Modern --- Modernism (Literature) --- Post-postmodernism (Literature) --- Faulkner, William, --- Falkner, William, --- Fōkunā, Wiriamu, --- Folkner, Uilʹi︠a︡m, --- Fo-kʻo-na, --- Phōkner, Ouilliam, --- Fo-kʻo-na, Wei-lien, --- Fu-kʻo-na, --- Fu-kʻo-na, Wei-lien, --- Falkner, William Cuthbert, --- Pʻookʻŭnŏ, William, --- Foḳner, Ṿilyam, --- Pʻolkneri, Uiliam, --- K̲apākn̲ar, Villiyam, --- Fāknir, Vīlīyām, --- פוקנר --- פוקנר, וויליאם --- פוקנר, ויליאם, --- פוקנר, ןיליאם --- 福克纳威廉, --- Trueblood, Ernest V., --- Criticism and interpretation --- Mississippi --- Yoknapatawpha County (Imaginary place) --- State of Mississippi --- Missisipi --- Місісіпі --- Misisipi --- Штат Місісіпі --- Shtat Misisipi --- Мисисипи --- Щат Мисисипи --- Mísísípii Hahoodzo --- Mississippi osariik --- Μισισιπι --- Πολιτεία του Μισισίπι --- Politeia tou Misisipi --- Estado de Misisipi --- Misisipio --- État du Mississippi --- Mississippy --- 미시시피 주 --- Misisipʻi-ju --- 미시시피 --- Mikikipi --- מיסיסיפי --- מדינת מיסיסיפי --- Medinat Misisipi --- US-MS --- MS (State : Mississippi) --- MI (State : Mississippi) --- Miss. --- In literature --- Congresses --- United States --- Mississippi in literature --- Ellison, Ralph Waldo --- Wright, Richard --- Morrison, Toni --- Acker, Kathy --- Фолкнер, Уильям,
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