The mourning after : attending the wake of postmodernism / edited by Neil Brooks and Josh Toth.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brooks, Neil (Neil Edward), 1962-

Toth, Josh.

Series:

Postmodern studies ; 40.

Postmodern studies ; 40

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postmodernism (Literature).

Postmodernism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Have we moved beyond postmodernism? Did postmodernism lose its oppositional value when it became a cultural dominant? While focusing on questions such as these, the articles in this collection consider the possibility that the death of a certain version of postmodernism marks a renewed attempt to re-negotiate and perhaps re-embrace many of the cultural, literary and theoretical assumptions that postmodernism seemly denied outright. Including contributions from some of the leading scholars in the field – N. Katherine Hayles, John D. Caputo, Paul Maltby, Jane Flax, among others – this collection ultimately comes together to perform a certain work of mourning. Through their explorations of this current epistemological shift in narrative and theoretical production, these articles work to “get over” postmodernism while simultaneously celebrating a certain postmodern inheritance, an inheritance that can offer us important avenues to understanding and affecting contemporary culture and society.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction: A Wake and Renewed? / Josh Toth and Neil Brooks

Postmodernism in a Fundamentalist Arena / Paul Maltby

Postmodernism in the Age of Distracting Discourses / Robert McLaughlin

Attending to Suffering in/at the Wake of Postmodernism / Jennifer Geddes

Soul Service: Foucault’s “Care of the Self” as Politics and Ethics / Jane Flax

Mood Swings: The Aesthetics of Ambient Emergence / N. Katherine Hayles and Todd Gannon

New York, Los Angeles, and Other Toxicities: Revisiting Postmodernism in Rushdie’s Fury and Shalimar the Clown / Gavin Keulks

Nothing to Write Home About: Impossible Reception in Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves / William G. Little

Turncoat: Why Jonathan Franzen Finally Said “No” to Po-Mo / Robert Rebein

Serving Pi(e) at the Wake of Postmodernism: Mathematics and Mysticism at the End of the 20th Century / Clayton Dion

Derrida and the Ethics of Mourning After / Dawne McCance

Postmodernism and the Crisis of Belief: Neo-Realism vs. the Real / Clayton Crockett

The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event / John D. Caputo

Contributors.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

94-012-0406-3

1-4294-8122-6

OCLC:

166291647

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401204064 DOI