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The postmodern arts : an introductory reader
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The postmodern arts : an introductory reader

Author: Nigel Wheale
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.
Series: Critical readers in theory and practice.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Nigel Wheale
ISBN: 0415077761 9780415077767 0415126118 9780415126113
OCLC Number: 31514740
Description: xvii, 295 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Part I. Postmodernism: a new representation? Paradigms of the postmodern --
Modernism and its consequences: continuity or break? --
Postmodernism: from elite to mass culture? --
Conclusion: resisting the postmodern --
Part II. Essays on postmodernism. One: Popular culture. Introduction --
Popular music and postmodern theory --
Recognizing a "human- Thing": cyborgs, robots and replicants in Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" and Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner" --
Two: Architecture and visual arts. Introduction --
Melancholy meanings: architecture, postmodernity and philosophy --
"The World is Indeed a Fabluous Tale": Yve Lomax-a practice around philosophy --
Televising Hell: Tom Phillips and Peter Greenaway's "TV Dante" --
Three: Literature. Introduction --
A new subjectivity? John Ashbery's "Three poems" --
Reading "The Satanic Verses" --
Four: The real and the true: documentary film. The totalizing quest of meaning.
Series Title: Critical readers in theory and practice.
Responsibility: edited by Nigel Wheale.
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