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Postmodernism : a very short introduction

Author: Christopher Butler
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Series: Very short introductions, 74.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Postmodernism has been a buzzword in contemporary society for the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler challenges and explores the key ideas of postmodernists, and their engagement with theory, literature, the visual arts, film, architecture, and music. He treats artists, intellectuals, critics, and social scientists as if they were all members of a loosely  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Christopher Butler
ISBN: 0192802399 9780192802392
OCLC Number: 50155781
Notes: "First published as a Very Short Introduction 2002"--T.p. verso.
Description: 142 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Contents: The Rise of postmodernism --
New ways of seeing the world --
Politics and identity --
The Culture of postmodernism --
The postmodern condition.
Series Title: Very short introductions, 74.
Responsibility: Christopher Butler.
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"Postmodernism has been a buzzword in contemporary society for the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler challenges and explores the key ideas of postmodernists, and their engagement with theory, literature, the visual arts, film, architecture, and music. He treats artists, intellectuals, critics, and social scientists as if they were all members of a loosely constituted and quarrelsome political party - a party which includes such members as Cindy Sherman, Salman Rushdie, Jacques Derrida, Walter Abish, and Richard Rorty - creating a vastly entertaining framework in which to unravel the mysteries of the postmodern condition from the politicizing of museum culture to the cult of the politically correct."--Jacket.

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