The mourning after : attending the wake of postmodernism /
Brooks, Neil(Neil Edward),1962-
Toth, Josh.
Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi,
c2007.
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Acknowledgements -- Permissions and illustrations -- ARRIVING AND SOCIALIZING AT THE WAKE.  Introduction: A wake and renewed? -- Postmodernism in a fundamentalist arena -- Postmodernism in an age of distracting discourses -- Attending to suffering in/at the wake of postmodernism -- Soul service: Foucault's "care of the self" as politics and ethics -- VIEWING AND READING AT THE WAKE.  Mood swings: the aesthetics of ambient emergence -- New York, Los Angeles, and other toxicities: revisiting postmodernism in Rushdie's Fury and Shalimar the clown -- Nothing to write home about: impossible reception in Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves -- Turncoat: why Jonathan Franzen finally said "no" to Po-Mo -- Serving Pi(e) at the wake of postmodernism: mathematics and mysticism at the end of the 20th century -- MOURNING AND PRAYING AT THE WAKE.  Derrida and the ethics of mourning after -- Postmodernism and the crisis of belief: neo-realism vs. the real -- The weakness of God: a theology of the event -- Contributors.
Postmodernism (Literature)
Postmodernism.