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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457905903321

Titolo

Postmodernism and politics [[electronic resource] /] / edited and introduced by Jonathan Arac

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1986

ISBN

0-8166-8235-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Collana

Theory and history of literature ; ; v. 28

Altri autori (Persone)

AracJonathan <1945->

Disciplina

801/.95/0904

Soggetti

Postmodernism (Literature)

Politics and literature

Marxist criticism

Criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Ineluctability of Difference: Scientific Pluralism and the Critical Intelligence; 2. Interpretive Strategies/Strategic Interpretations: On Anglo-American Reader-Response Criticism; 3. ""Above All Else to Make You See"": Cinema and the Ideology of Spectacle; 4. Ezra Pound and the ""Economy"" of Anti-Semitism; 5. The Scene of the Other: Theodor W. Adorno's Negative Dialectic in the Context of Poststructuralism; 6. Raymond Williams and the Problem of Ideology; 7. Ethics and Action in Fredric Jameson's Marxist Hermeneutics

8. Feeling Global: John Berger and ExperienceContributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Eight essays on postmodernism with a focus on intellectual, artistic and social concerns.