Postmodernism in Pieces : Materializing the Social in U. S. Fiction.
Mullins, Matthew.
Postmodernism in Pieces : Materializing the Social in U. S. Fiction. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (249 pages)
Cover -- Postmodernism in Pieces -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The State of Things in Postmodernism -- 1. Reconstructing Social Construction -- 2. Flattening Nature and Culture -- 3. Rewriting Language -- 4. Collapsing Otherness -- Afterism: The Promise of Postmodernism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Postmodernism in Pieces performs a postmortem on what is perhaps the most contested paradigm in literary studies, breaking postmodernism down into its most fundamental orthodoxies and reassembles it piece by piece in light of recent theoretical developments in Actor-Network-Theory, object-oriented philosophy, new materialism, and posthumanism.
9780190459512
Postmodernism (Literature) - United States.
Electronic books.
PS374.P64.M855 2016
813.5409113
Postmodernism in Pieces : Materializing the Social in U. S. Fiction. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (249 pages)
Cover -- Postmodernism in Pieces -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The State of Things in Postmodernism -- 1. Reconstructing Social Construction -- 2. Flattening Nature and Culture -- 3. Rewriting Language -- 4. Collapsing Otherness -- Afterism: The Promise of Postmodernism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Postmodernism in Pieces performs a postmortem on what is perhaps the most contested paradigm in literary studies, breaking postmodernism down into its most fundamental orthodoxies and reassembles it piece by piece in light of recent theoretical developments in Actor-Network-Theory, object-oriented philosophy, new materialism, and posthumanism.
9780190459512
Postmodernism (Literature) - United States.
Electronic books.
PS374.P64.M855 2016
813.5409113