The Passing of Postmodernism: A Spectroanalysis of the Contemporary (S U N Y Series in Postmodern Culture)

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Examines the increasingly prevalent assumption that postmodernism is over and that literature and film are once again engaging sincerely with issues of ethics and politics.

Author(s): Josh Toth
Year: 2010

Language: English
Pages: 200

The Passing of Postmodernism......Page 5
Contents......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 11
Introduction......Page 13
Ruptures and Specters......Page 19
Exorcisms Without End......Page 30
The (Phantom) Project Still Incomplete......Page 35
Poststructuralism and/as Postmodernism......Page 49
Private Irony All the Way Down?......Page 57
The Force of Derrida’s Indecision......Page 73
Neither Logocentric nor Logo Centric......Page 87
From an Ethics of Perversity to an Ethics of Indecision......Page 101
Metafi ction’s Failure and the Rise of Neo-Realism......Page 118
The Project of Renewalism......Page 136
A Conclusion . . . Perhaps......Page 149
Notes......Page 159
Works Cited......Page 195
B......Page 205
D......Page 206
E......Page 207
I......Page 208
M......Page 209
P......Page 210
R......Page 211
Z......Page 212