Postmodern times
Subtitle: a critical guide to the contemporary
By: edited by Thomas Carmichael and Alison Lee.
Contributors: Carmichael, Thomas Joseph Daniel, 1955-; Lee, Alison, 1957-
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: DeKalb, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Postmodernism -- Social aspects.
Description: "These fifteen new essays engage topics from architecture to politics and from fast food to film, revealing the problems and potential of postmodern cultural criticism. Resisting the temptation to use "postmodern" as a catch-all label, Postmodern Times offers a reading of the value and limits of postmodernist approaches to present-day society and culture."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: postmodern life, or what you see is what you get / Thomas Carmichael and Alison Lee; title: Psychoanalysis and the postmodern subject: the question of a metapsychology / Michael Zeitlin; title: Lost in the past?: feminism's divided relationship to postmodernity / Diane Elam; title: Just events / Thomas Docherty; title: Postmodern education in the age of border youth / Henry A. Giroux; title: Transaesthetics / Margot Lovejoy; title: Hyperaesthetics: theorizing in real-time about digital cultures / Peter Lunenfeld; title: If only Mother Nature could sue Wordsworth for copyright infringement / Wendy Griesdorf; title: Post-modern architecture and time fusion / Charles Jencks; title: "Old tools," not "new noise": opera's postmodern moment / Linda Hutcheon; title: Channel surfing: postmodernism on television / Glenn Hendler; title: Difficult times: manifesto for a postmodern literary history / Bill Readings; title: To the beat of a different conundrum: postmodern science and literature / Susan Strehle; title: The cilantro cannot hold: postmodern cuisine beyond the golden arches / Paul Budra; title: Afterword: post-modernism: a whole full of holes / Charles Jencks with Alison Lee.