New York Fictions: Modernity, Postmodernism, The New Modern

ISBN-13: 9780582099548 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 256 str.

Peter Brooker; Stan Smith

Opis

This study provides an interdisciplinary examination of contemporary American writing using the example of New York City. The book challenges the simplified view that postmodernism ended modernist critique and left political opposition.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements  1. Introduction: Companion Cities of the other side  2. City of Modernity  3. Fellow modernists in postmodern times  4. New York nowhere  5. Jazz records  Conclusion: Alphabet city  Index

O autorze

Peter Brooker has taught at the Universities of Greenwich, Massachusettes, Northampton, and Nottingham. He has written widely on contemporary writing and theory including, Modernisms/Postmodernisms (1992), A Glossary of Cultural Theory (1999, 2003), Modernity and Metropolis (2004) and Bohemia in London (2004, 2007). He joined the University of Sussex as a Professorial Fellow In April 2008.