In What's Wrong with Postmodernism Norris critiques the -postmodern-pragmatist malaise- of Baudrillard, Fish, Rorty, and Lyotard. In contrast he finds a continuing critical impulse--an -enlightened or emancipatory interest---in thinkers like Derrida, de Man, Bhaskar, and Habermas. Offering a provocative reassessment of Derrida's influence on modern thinking, Norris attempts to sever the tie between deconstruction and American literary critics who, he argues, favor endless, playful, polysemic interpretation at the expense of systematic argument.
As he explores leftist attempts...
In What's Wrong with Postmodernism Norris critiques the -postmodern-pragmatist malaise- of Baudrillard, Fish, Rorty, and Lyotard. In contras...
This is a substantial and readable volume, and it is supplied with a rich array of documentation in the notes and bibliography. It deals with a question of critical importance for current research on medieval literature': namely, the relationship between this literature and us...This is an important collection, and one may congratulate the editors of their ambitious undertaking.--Paul Zumthor, 'Speculum.'
This is a substantial and readable volume, and it is supplied with a rich array of documentation in the notes and bibliography. It deals with a questi...
In Cultural Imperialism, John Tomlinson deals with issues ranging from the ideological effects of imported cultural products, to the process of cultural homogenization, to the nature of cultural autonomy. He examines a number of related discourses: thedebate about -media imperialism- the discourse of national cultural identity; the critique of multinational capitalism and the critique of cultural modernity. His analysis reveals major problems in the way in which the idea of cultural, as distinct from economic or political, imperialism is formulated.
In Cultural Imperialism, John Tomlinson deals with issues ranging from the ideological effects of imported cultural products, to the process...
"This is a major work on the connection of theoretical to political practice under postmodernity. At once rigorous and readable, its academic concerns will be both accessible and useful to readers asking--as contemporary readers indomitably do--what these debates in cultural theory have to do with the conduct of theirsocial lives."--Meaghan Morris, author of "The Pirate's Fianc?e: Feminism, Reading, Postmodernism."
"Miller's work is extremely engaging, original, and successful in producing a set of innovative analyses of the formation of cultural subjects."--Douglas Kellner, University...
"This is a major work on the connection of theoretical to political practice under postmodernity. At once rigorous and readable, its academic conce...
-The three worlds theory is perhaps still the basis for our dominant assumptions about geopolitical and geocultural order, - writes Frederick Buell, -but its hold on our imagination and faith is passing fast. In its place, a startlingly different model--the notion that the world is somehow interconnected into a single system--has emerged, expressing the perception that global relationships constitute not three separate worlds but a single network.-
In the wake of disillusionment with anticolonial nationalism, and in response to a wide variety of economic, political, demographic, and...
-The three worlds theory is perhaps still the basis for our dominant assumptions about geopolitical and geocultural order, - writes Frederick Buell...
The importance of history has been powerfully reaffirmed in recent years by the appearance of major new authors, pathbreaking works, and fresh interpretations of historical events, trends, and methods. Responding to these developments, Roger Chartier engages several of the most influential writers of cultural history whose works have spread far beyond academic audiences to become part of contemporary cultural argument. Challenging the assertion that history is no more than a -fiction-making operation- Chartier examines the relationships between history and fiction and proposes new...
The importance of history has been powerfully reaffirmed in recent years by the appearance of major new authors, pathbreaking works, and fresh inte...
