Postmodernism and the re-reading of modernity
By: edited by Francis Barker, Peter Hulme, and Margaret Iversen.
Contributors: Barker, Francis, 1952-; Hulme, Peter.; Iversen, Margaret.
Series: The Essex symposia, literature, politics, theory
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Manchester; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
Subjects: Postmodernism (Literature); Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.; Postmodernism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-315) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Angelus novus; title: Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, categoy / Peter Osborne; title: Watching the detectives / Kristin Ross; title: The long run of modernity, or, an essay on post-dating / Adrian Rifkin; title: Suffering from reminiscences / Michael Newman; title: Traducing history : Benjamin, language, politics / Kenneth Lea; title: Science fiction and postmodernity / Jonathan Benison; title: Down the road, or, history rehearsed / Elaine Jordan; title: Spectators of postmodern art : from Minimalism to feminism / Margaret Iversen; title: Rethinking the public sphere : a contribution to the critique of actually existing democracy / Nancy Fraser; title: Is Enlightenment emancipatory? : a feminist reading of "What is Englightenment" / Jane Flax; title: Whistling in the dark : affirmation and despair in postmodernism / Jay Bernstein; title: Writing in the lifeworld : deconstruction as a paradigm of transition to postmodernism / Peter Dews.