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        Literature: history & criticism
        2005

        The PostChornobyl Library: Ukrainian Postmodernism of the 1990s

        by Tamara Hundorova

        Having exploded on the margins of Europe, Chornobyl marked the end of the Soviet Union and tied the era of postmodernism in Western Europe with nuclear consciousness. The Post-Chornobyl Library in Tamara Hundorova’s book becomes a metaphor of a new Ukrainian literature of the 1990s, which emerges out of the Chornobyl nuclear trauma of the 26th of April, 1986. Ukrainian postmodernism turns into a writing of trauma and reflects the collisions of the post-Soviet time as well as the processes of decolonization of the national culture. A carnivalization of the apocalypse is the main paradigm of the post-Chornobyl text, which appeals to “homelessness” and the repetition of “the end of histories.” Ironic language game, polymorphism of characters, taboo breaking, and filling in the gaps of national culture testify to the fact that the Ukrainians were liberating themselves from the totalitarian past and entering the society of the spectacle. Along this way, the post-Chornobyl character turns into an ironist, meets with the Other, experiences a split of his or her self, and witnesses a shift of geo-cultural landscapes.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        April 2023

        Hari Kunzru

        by Kristian Shaw, Sara Upstone

        This book is the first edited collection to focus on the work of contemporary author Hari Kunzru. It contains major new essays on each of his novels - The Impressionist, Transmission, My Revolutions, Gods Without Men, White Tears and Red Pill - as well as his short fiction and non-fiction writings. The collection situates Kunzru's work within current debates regarding postmodernism, postcolonialism, and post-postmodernism, and examines how Kunzru's work is central to major thematic concerns of contemporary writing including whiteness, national identity, Britishness, cosmopolitanism, music, space, memory, art practice, trauma, Brexit, immigration, covid-19, and populist politics. The book engages with current debates regarding the politics of publishing of ethnic writers, examining how Kunzru has managed to shape a career in resistance of narrow labelling where many other writers have struggled to achieve long-term recognition.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2021

        Post-everything

        An intellectual history of post-concepts

        by Herman Paul, Adriaan van Veldhuizen

        Postmodern, postcolonial and post-truth are broadly used terms. But where do they come from? When and why did the habit of interpreting the world in post-terms emerge? And who exactly were the 'post boys' responsible for this? Post-everything examines why post-Christian, post-industrial and post-bourgeois were terms that resonated, not only among academics, but also in the popular press. It delves into the historical roots of postmodern and poststructuralist, while also subjecting more recent post-constructions (posthumanist, postfeminist) to critical scrutiny. This study is the first to offer a comprehensive history of post-concepts. In tracing how these concepts found their way into a broad range of genres and disciplines, Post-everything contributes to a rapprochement between the history of the humanities and the history of the social sciences.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        June 2021

        Passing into the present

        Contemporary American fiction of racial and gender passing

        by Sinead Moynihan

        This book is the first full-length study of contemporary American fiction of passing. Its takes as its point of departure the return of racial and gender passing in the 1990s in order to make claims about wider trends in contemporary American fiction. The book accounts for the return of tropes of passing in fiction by Phillip Roth, Percival Everett, Louise Erdrich, Danzy Senna, Jeffrey Eugenides and Paul Beatty, by arguing meta-critical and meta-fictional tool. These writers are attracted to the trope of passing because passing narratives have always foregrounded the notion of textuality in relation to the (il)legibility of "black" subjects passing as white. The central argument of this book, then, is that contemporary narratives of passing are concerned with articulating and unpacking an analogy between passing and authorship. The title promises to inaugurate dialogue on the relationships between passing, postmodernism and authorship in contemporary American fiction.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        August 2004

        Subversive Spinoza

        Antonio Negri

        by Timothy S. Murphy, Gerard Greenway, Michael Hardt, Edward Stolze, Charles T. Wolfe

        In Subversive Spinoza, Antonio Negri spells out the philosophical credo that inspired his radical renewal of Marxism and his compelling analysis of the modern state and the global economy by means of an inspiring reading of the challenging metaphysics of the seventeenth-century Dutch-Jewish philosopher Spinoza. For Negri, Spinoza's philosophy has never been more relevant than it is today to debates over individuality and community, democracy and resistance, and modernity and postmodernity. This collection of essays extends, clarifies and revises the argument of Negri's influential 1981 book 'The Savage Anomaly: The Power of Spinoza's Metaphysics and Politics' and links it directly to his recent work on constituent power, time and empire. ;

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        October 2024

        The Legacy of John Polidori

        The Romantic Vampire and its Progeny

        by Sam George, Bill Hughes

        John Polidori's novella The Vampyre (1819) is perhaps 'the most influential horror story of all time' (Frayling). Polidori's story transformed the shambling, mindless monster of folklore into a sophisticated, seductive aristocrat that stalked London society rather than being confined to the hinterlands of Eastern Europe. Polidori's Lord Ruthven was thus the ancestor of the vampire as we know it. This collection explores the genesis of Polidori's vampire. It then tracks his bloodsucking progeny across the centuries and maps his disquieting legacy. Texts discussed range from the Romantic period, including the fascinating and little-known The Black Vampyre (1819), through the melodramatic vampire theatricals in the 1820s, to contemporary vampire film, paranormal romance, and science fiction. They emphasise the background of colonial revolution and racial oppression in the early nineteenth century and the cultural shifts of postmodernity.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        September 2001

        Railways and culture in Britain

        The epitome of modernity

        by Ian Carter, Jeffrey Richards

        The nineteenth-century's steam railway epitomised modernity's relentlessly onrushing advance. In Railways and culture in Britain Ian Carter delves into the cultural impact of train technology, and how this was represented in British society. Why, for example, did Britain possess no great railway novel? The book's first half tests that assertion by comparing fiction and images by some canonical British figures (Turner, Dickens, Arnold Bennett) with selected French and Russian competitors: Tolstoy, Zola, Monet, Manet. The second half proposes that if high cultural work on the British steam railway is thin, then this does not mean that all British culture ignored this revolutionary artefact. Detailed discussions of comic fiction, crime fiction and cartoons reveal a popular fascination with railways tumbling from vast (and hitherto unexplored) stores of critically overlooked genres. A final chapter contemplates cultural correlations of the steam railway's eclipse. If this was the epitome of modernity, then does the triumph of diesel and electric trains, of cars and planes, signal a decisive shift to postmodernity? ;

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        March 2013

        Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex

        by Jeff Wallace, Ruth Evans, John Whale

        Acknowledged by many feminists as the single most important theoretical work of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex (1949) nevertheless occupies an anomalous place in the feminist 'canon'. Yet it has had an undeniable impact, not only on the development of critiques of sexual politics but on twentieth-century western thinking about the concept of 'woman' in general. This collection of six new essays by scholars from the disciplines of French, English literature, history, cultural criticism, feminist theory and philosophy makes a valuable contribution to the task of re-reading and reassessing this enormously influential text for a new generation of feminist readers, and also for cultural theorists, for whom the question of 'the feminine' is at the centre of key debates in philosophy and postmodernity. The contributors provide a significantly new rethinking of the place of The Second Sex in cultural history and of women and representation, the role of 'fictions' and the problem of ethical agency in the work of the leading intellectual woman of this age. ;

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        April 2010

        Beginning Postmodernism

        by Tim Woods

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        October 1995

        Postmoderne Rechtstheorie.

        Selbstreferenz - Selbstorganisation - Prozeduralisierung.

        by Ladeur, Karl-Heinz

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        August 2017

        Bauman and contemporary sociology

        by Ali Rattansi

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        January 1991

        Spätmoderne und Postmoderne

        Beiträge zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur

        by Herausgegeben von Lützeler, Paul M

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        February 2001

        Der postmoderne Impuls.

        Die Krise der Literatur um 1968 und ihre Überwindung.

        by Luckscheiter, Roman

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        March 1993

        Subjektivität und Postmoderne

        Der Diskurs der Psychologie

        by Klaus-Jürgen Bruder

        In diesem Buch werden die Themen der Subjektivität, des Konstruktivismus, der Psychologie der Selbsterfahrung aus dem Kontext praktischer Diskurse der Psychologie entfaltet und in den Horizont des postmodernen Diskurses gestellt. Dabei ist die Grundthese des Autors, daß der Gegenstand der Psychologie, das Psychische, die Subjektivität, durch den Diskurs über diesen Gegenstand selbst hergestellt wird. Dieser Diskurs wird für die Zeitspanne von der Herausbildung der modernen (experimentellen) Psychologie bis zum gegenwärtigen Paradigmenwechsel in der Psychologie rekonstruiert.

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        December 1994

        Prämoderne, Moderne, Postmoderne

        by Karl Riha

        "›Wann und wo beginnt die Moderne?‹ So der Titel des einleitenden Aufsatzes mit der These, daß man mit den Augen der programmatischen Moderne unseres Jahrhunderts weit in die Geschichte der Literatur zurückblicken kann; in diesem Sinne gilt es, Prämoderne ausfindig zu machen und in entsprechende Vergleichspositionen zu bringen. Das 17., 18. und 19. Jahrhundert offerieren dafür die unterschiedlichsten Paradigmata. Separate Aufsätze gelten ›Buchstabentausch und Fehlschreibe‹. Der Autor beschränkt sich aber nicht auf das Aufzeigen einer Vorgeschichte der Moderne, sondern legt mit Aufsätzen zur Bild- und Sprachenthemmung bei Paul Scheerbart und Carl Einstein, zu Hans Arps und Max Ernsts ›FataGAGA‹-Arbeiten etc. interessante Querschnitte durch die avantgardistische Moderne als solche und nimmt auch die aktuelle postmodernistische Perspektive auf."

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