Teaching the Postmodern

ISBN-13: 9780415904551 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 213 str.

Brenda Marshall

Opis

Brenda Marshall's Teaching The Postmodern aims to provide an introduction to postmodernism accessible enough for the undergraduate reader and rigorous enough to inform and challenge the graduate student and professor. Designed for the classroom, Teaching The Postmodern reads both literary texts and theory. Marshall introduces the reader to key terminology and concepts: structuralism, poststructuralism, the critique of subjectivity, the critique of representation, intertextuality, historiographic metafiction, and counter-memory. Fiction by Italo Calvino, J.M. Coetzee, Michel Tournier, Christa Wolf, Salman Rushdie, Timothy Findley, and Toni Morrison roots the theory in practice. Taking on the notoriously inaccessible, Teaching The Postmodern sets out to demonstrate that postmodernism can be comprehensible, and even fun.

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1 Structuralism and Italo Calvino's “A Sign in Space”; Chapter 2 Critique of Representation and J.M. Coetzee's Foe; Chapter 3 Critique of Subjectivity and Michel Tournier's Friday; Chapter 4 From Work to Text to Intertextuality; Chapter 5 Counter-Memory and Historiographic Metafiction; Chapter 6 Resisting Closure; Notes; Works Cited Index;

O autorze

Brenda K. Marshall