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For nearly three quarters of a century, the modernist way of reading has been the only way of reading James Joyce useful, yes, and powerful but, like all frameworks, limited. This book takes a leap across those limits into postmodernism, where the pleasures and possibilities of an unsuspected Joyce are yet to be found.
Kevin J. H. Dettmar begins by articulating a stylistics of postmodernism drawn from the key texts of Roland Barthes, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Jean-Francois Lyotard. Read within this framework, "Dubliners "emerges from behind its modernist facade as the earliest product of...

Following hard on the explosion of British punk, in 1979 Gang of Four produced post-punk's smartest record, Entertainment For the first time, a band wedded punk's angry energy to funk's propulsive beats--and used that music to put across lyrics that brought a heady mixture of Marxist theory and situationism to exposing the cultural politics of everyday life.

But for an American college student from the suburbs--and, one expects, for many, many others, including British youth--Jon King's and Andy Gill's mumbled lyrics were often all but unintelligible. Political rock 'n' roll...

• An essential resource for students and teachers of modernist literature and culture
• Broad in scope and comprehensive in coverage
• Includes more than 60 contributions from some of the most distinguished modernist scholars on both sides of the Atlantic
• Brings together entries on elements of modernist culture, contemporary intellectual and aesthetic...