Modernity

ISBN-13: 9780333914564 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 256 str.

D Punter

Opis

This exciting volume in the Transitions series explores both history and contemporary ideas, pushing forward the boundaries of what we understand by 'modernity'. This book is distinguished from its competitors by its clear focus on close readings of commonly-studied texts and a strict policy on writing for an undergraduate readership.

Spis treści

General Editor's Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- PART I: HISTORIES.- Modernity and Enlightenment.- Modernity and Decadence.- Modernity and Modernism.- Modernity Now.- PART II: STRUCTURES OF CONTEMPORARY MODERNITY.- Post.- 'Differend'.- Hauntology.- Global Language.- Development.- Hong Kong.- Architecture.- Dirt.- Power.- Hatred.- Marxism.- Children.- Animal.- Museums.- Age.- Commodity.- War.- Repetition.- Maps.- Perversion.- PART III: TEXTS.- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray.- T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land.- William Gibson, Neuromancer.- M. John Harrison, Light.- Conclusion.- Annotated Bibliography.- Bibliography.- Index.

O autorze

DAVID PUNTER is Professor of English and Research Dean, Faculty of Arts, at the University of Bristol, UK. He has published extensively on Gothic and Romantic literature, contemporary writing and culture, and on literary theory, psychoanalysis and the postcolonial.