 | Allegory in America: From Puritanism to Postmodernism (Studies in Literature and Religion (Houndmills, Basingstoke, England).)
Publication Date: June 1996| Series: Studies in Literature and Religion (Houndmills, Basingstoke, England). Allegory in America surveys the history of American allegorical writing from the Puritans through the period of American romanticism to postmodernism. In a series of theoretical chapters the cultural function of allegory is discussed in relation to the mythology of American exceptionalism. Each theoretical chapter is followed by a chapter that analyzes a specific text or group of texts. Allegorical indeterminacy is seen to produce a literary tradition that both represents and subverts ...
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 | After Postmodernism: Reconstructing Ideology Critique (Inquiries in Social Construction series)
Publication Date: November 11, 1994| ISBN-10: 080398877X | ISBN-13: 978-0803988774This interdisciplinary book addresses the key questions posed by the postmodernist challenge: Is it possible to reflect and criticize in an age when every claim to truth is placed under suspicion? Are social critics contaminated by the same ideological distortions they identify in society?The text reviews different responses to such dilemmas and thus examines ways to reconstruct social theory and critique following the postmodern attack on the traditional foundations of knowledge. Whether looking at politic...
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 | An Aesthetics Of Vulnerability: The Sentimentum and The Novels Of Graham Swift (Gothenburg Studies in English)
Publication Date: December 31, 2003| ISBN-10: 9173464791 | ISBN-13: 978-9173464796This is a Ph.D. dissertation. Arguing against the view that postmodernism is marked by "the waning of affect," this book investigates the fate of sentimentality in postmodernist fiction. The investigation focuses on the novels of the British author, Graham Swift, tracing in them the emergence of a blending of representations of sentimentality with a postmodernist aesthetics and a postmodern ethico-spiritual imagination - a blending resulting in what is designated by the shorthand "the sentimentum." The expr...
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 | American Affect in the Postmodern Era: A Primer
Publication Date: August 29, 2005| ISBN-10: 0761832505 | ISBN-13: 978-0761832508| Edition: 1St Edition How is terrorism transformed into media entertainment? What is the connection between affirmative action and narcissism? Why has pathos become an endangered-perhaps an extinct-species in the contemporary American psyche? In American Affect in the Postmodern Era: A Primer, Steven Carter addresses these and other questions that have helped to define American popular culture since the nineteen-sixties.Cover painting: Kyle Margiotta, Baja, 1999. Oil on canvas. ...
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 | Alternate Worlds: A Study of Postmodern Antirealistic American Fiction
Publication Date: July 1, 1991"Plot, character, setting and theme", according to John Hawkes, perhaps the first post-World War II antirealist, constitute "the true enemies of the novel". Working from that position, John Kuehl looks at 11 literary traits the post modern antirealist finds user friendly, in a pattern search through the works of some of today's most imaginative writers - Barth, Barthelme, Coover, Gass, Pynchon and Vonnegut, to name only a few - from some who have made it to the top of the bestseller lists to other barely known outside academic circles. Framing the study are an i...
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| Analysing Talk (Studies in English Language)
Publication Date: August 23, 1994| ISBN-10: 0333428595 | ISBN-13: 978-0333428597The book offers a step-by-step approach to the task of describing what is systematic in conversational behaviour. The book is organised as a series of practical exercises, teaching skills such as transcribing verbal interaction and identifying and describing special events'. An investigation is made into how participants show awareness of patterns of speech structure (eg taking turns and interrupting). ...
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 | The age of iron and other interludes (Archives of post-modern literature, no. 102)
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 | Analyzing Language in Restricted Domains: Sublanguage Description and Processing
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 | Analyzing Conversation: Rules and Units in the Structure of Talk (Language and Communication Library)
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| What is Post-Modernism?
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 | ADVANCES WRITTEN TEXT ANALYSIS CL
Publication Date: April 8, 1994| ISBN-10: 0415095190 | ISBN-13: 978-0415095198| Edition: 1 This work provides an overview of a wide range of approaches to written text analysis. It includes both classic and specially commissioned papers by distinguished authors, which share a common linguistic framework. The pieces contain a variety of focuses from the patterning of paragraphs, sections or whole texts to the organization of clauses, individual expressions and single words, as well as a variety of text-types. The examples used range from pure science through social science, academic journ...
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 | Work, Postmodernism and Organization: A Critical Introduction (Organization, Theory and Society series)
Publication Date: May 2, 2001| ISBN-10: 0761959440 | ISBN-13: 978-0761959441| Edition: 1 Work, Postmodernism and Organization provides a wide-ranging and very accessible introduction to postmodern theory and its relevance for the cultural world of the work organization.The book provides a critical review of the debates that have shaped organization theory over the past decade, making clear the meaning and significance of postmodern ideas for contemporary organization theory and practice.Work, Postmodernism and Organization will provide valuable material to advanced undergraduate and post...
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 | About Religion: Economies of Faith in Virtual Culture (Religion and Postmodernism)
Publication Date: July 1, 1999| ISBN-10: 0226791610 | ISBN-13: 978-0226791616| Edition: 1 "Religion," Mark C. Taylor maintains, "is most interesting where it is least obvious." From global financial networks to the casinos of Las Vegas, from images flickering on computer terminals to steel sculpture, material culture bears unexpected traces of the divine. In a world where the economies of faith are obscure, yet pervasive, Taylor shows that approaching religion directly is less instructive than thinking about it.Traveling from high culture to pop culture and back again, About Religion app...
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 | Anaphora, Discourse, and Understanding: Evidence from English and French
Publication Date: July 1, 1999| ISBN-10: 0198236484 | ISBN-13: 978-0198236481"This was a different man," said Mr Welbecker. "Listen! This man was called Hamlet and his uncle had killed his father because he wanted to marry his mother." "What did he want to marry his mother for?" said William. "I've never heard of anyone wanting to marry their mother."* In almost any conversation the meaning of what is said depends on the listener seeing how some words refer to what has already been said, and that others must be related to the characteristics of time, place, or person of the situation aro...
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| After Theory: Postmodernism/Postmarxism
Publication Date: June 1990| ISBN-10: 0415041791 | ISBN-13: 978-0415041799"After Theory" proposes a post-Marxist attitude to theory as a means to escape the twentieth century cloistering of critique, and the consequent resistance of society to change through radical thought. This book should be of interest to advanced students and teachers of modernist and postmodern literature. ...
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 | Where 'Indians' Fear to Tread?: A Postmodern Reading of Louise Erdrich's North Dakota Quartet (Studien zu Geschichte, Politik und Gesellschaft Nordamerikas/ Studies in North)
Publication Date: August 14, 2001| Series: Studien zu Geschichte, Politik und Gesellschaft Nordamerikas/ Studies in North (Book 18) The two fields of contemporary Native American literature and culture exist in the tension between two literary traditions: the Native oral and literary tradition and the modern Western mainstream literary influence. In her North Dakota quartet Love Medicine (1984), The Beet Queen (1986), Tracks (1988), The Bingo Palace (1994), Native American mixedblood author, Louise Erdrich (b. 1954) exemplifies where and how these traditions meet and interact. A postmodern r...
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| Acquiring Conversational Competence (Language, Education & Society Series)
Publication Date: September 8, 1983| ISBN-10: 0710094590 | ISBN-13: 978-0710094599Examines how children and adults use language to perform a variety of informational, social and poetic functions - to introduce, sustain and elaborate topics, to provide relevant responses and to play. ...
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 | Representation and Decoration in a Postmodern Age (American Studies - a Monograph Series)
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 | Why the Novel Matters: A Postmodern Perplex
Release Date: August 22, 1990"[T]his collection is interesting and timely, and the attempt of many of the essays to re-establish what their authors usually call a humanistic criticism is a welcome and useful provocation." —Donald GrayIn this series of essays from Novel: A Forum on Fiction, a pantheon of scholars explores the conflict between "humanist" and "posthumanist" responses to questions about the novel's relevancy in postmodern times. ...
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 | Ambiguous Harmony: Family Talk and Culture in America (Advances in Discourse Processes)
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