Postmodernism Literature Books

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1. Modernity's End: Time and History in the Discursive Condition

   By Elizabeth Ermarth

   In this bold new book, Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth argues that modernity had its roots in the Renaissance and traces the history of modernity and postmodernity in Western culture from that time. Here, Ermarth provides a new, clear definition of modernity and a clear statement of the broadly established...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-78219-7 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Reading the Cantos (Routledge Revivals): A Study of Meaning in Ezra Pound

   By Noel Stock

   First published in 1967, this is a study which tackles the central problem of meaning, within Ezra Pound's The Cantos. It deals with the question of important critical issues, as well as of interpretation and understanding. Students of modern poetry will derive great benefit...

   October 2010 | 978-0-415-60935-7 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Literature after 9/11

   Edited by Ann Keniston, Jeanne Follansbee Quinn

   Drawing on trauma theory, genre theory, political theory, and theories of postmodernity, space, and temporality, Literature After 9/11 suggests ways that these often distinct discourses can be recombined and set into dialogue with one another as it explores 9/11’s effects on literature and...

   June 2010 | 978-0-415-88398-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

4. Modern Confessional Writing: New Critical Essays

   Edited by Jo Gill

   A comprehensive and scholarly account of this popular and influential genre, the essays in this collection explore confessional literature from the mid-twentieth century to the present day, and include the writing of John Berryman, Anne Sexton, Ted Hughes and Helen Fielding. Drawing on a wide...

   October 2009 | 978-0-415-54414-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

5. The Environmental Unconscious in the Fiction of Don DeLillo

   By Elise Martucci

   This book presents an ecocritical reading of DeLillo’s novels in an attempt to mediate between the seemingly incompatible influences of postmodernism and environmentalism. Martucci argues that although DeLillo is responding to and engaging with a postmodern culture of simulacra and simulation,...

   June 2009 | 978-0-415-80304-5 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Postmodern, Feminist and Postcolonial Currents in Contemporary Japanese Culture: A Reading of Murakami Haruki, Yoshimoto Banana, Yoshimoto Takaaki and Karatani Kojin

   By Fuminobu Murakami

   Using the Euro-American theoretical framework of postmodernism, feminism and post-colonialism, this book analyses the fictional and critical work of four contemporary Japanese writers; Murakami Haruki, Yoshimoto Banana, Yoshimoto Takaaki and Karatani Kojin. In addition the author reconsiders this...

   April 2009 | 978-0-415-54664-5 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Jean Baudrillard, 2nd Edition

   By Richard J. Lane

   Jean Baudrillard is one of the most controversial theorists of our time, famous for his claim that the Gulf War never happened and for his provocative writing on terrorism, specifically 9/11. This new and fully updated second edition includes: an introduction to Baudrillard’s key works and...

   2008 | 978-0-415-47448-1 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Gothic Romanced: Consumption, Gender and Technology in Contemporary Fictions

   By Fred Botting

   The dark, destructive and monstrous elements of gothic fiction have traditionally been seen in opposition to the rose-tinted idealism of Romanticism. In this ground-breaking study, Fred Botting re-evaluates the relationship between the two genres in order to plot the shifting alignments of popular...

   2008 | 978-0-415-45090-4 | Paperback (Routledge)

9. Pynchon and the Political

   By Samuel Thomas

   Thomas Pynchon's writing has been widely regarded as an exemplary form of postmodern fiction. It is characterized as genre-defying and enigmatic, as a series of complex and esoteric language games. This study attempts to demonstrate, however, that an oblique yet compelling sense of the "political"...

   2007 | 978-0-415-95646-8 | Hardback (Routledge)

10. Cartographic Strategies of Postmodernity: The Figure of the Map in Contemporary Theory and Fiction

    By Peta Mitchell

    The last fifty years have witnessed the growing pervasiveness of the figure of the map in critical, theoretical, and fictional discourse. References to mapping and cartography are endemic in poststructuralist theory, and, similarly, geographically and culturally diverse authors of twentieth-century...

    2007 | 978-0-415-95597-3 | Hardback (Routledge)