Kurt Vonnegut's Crusade; Or, How a Postmodern Harlequin Preached a New Kind of Humanism

Todd F Davis

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Postmodern Culture
• Explores the moral and philosophical underpinnings of Vonnegut's work. "I've worried some about why write books when presidents and senators and gener... Lees meer

Labyrinths of the Mind

Daniel R White, Gert Hellerich

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Postmodern Culture
• Applies postmodern theory to the working assumptions and consequent practices of therapy in various disciplines, from clinical psychology to schooling... Lees meer

Bodies at Risk

Robert Burns Neveldine

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Postmodern Culture
• Taking a post-psychoanalytic, queer-theoretical approach, this book links philosophical and aesthetic issues in two distinct periods through the exami... Lees meer

Masocriticism

Paul Mann

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Postmodern Culture
• Provocative, inventive, and at times outrageous essays on literary theory, philosophy, and cultural criticism. These provocative, inventive, and at ti... Lees meer

Fire and Roses

Carl A Raschke

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Postmodern Culture
• Interprets postmodernity in relation to the body--the "somatological a priori," and applies current critical theory to issues of gender, popular cultu... Lees meer

Counterpleasures

Karmen Mackendrick

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Postmodern Culture
• Takes up a series of literary and physical pleasures that do not appear to be pleasurable, ranging from Christian saintly asceticism to Sadean narrati... Lees meer

Feast and Folly

Allen S Weiss

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Postmodern Culture
• Treats French cuisine as a "fine art," offering both historical background as well as a deep analysis of the social, political, and aesthetic aspects ... Lees meer

The Transparency of Spectacle

Wheeler Winston Dixon

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Postmodern Culture
• Considers the ephemeral nature of the cinematic experience as we now apprehend it, and examines the ways in which technological advances in film and m... Lees meer

Productive Postmodernism

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Postmodern Culture
• Investigates a broad range of contemporary fiction, film, and architecture to address the role of history in postmodern cultural productions. Producti... Lees meer

Many Pretty Toys

Hazard Adams

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Postmodern Culture
• When Nixon orders the bombing of Cambodia, a university erupts in protest, irrevocably altering the lives of students and faculty, and disrupting the ... Lees meer

Dali and Postmodernism

Marc J Lafountain

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Postmodern Culture
• Demonstrates that Dali's Surrealism anticipates postmodern tactics, and inaugurates "New Dali Studies" by offering an original interpretation of his r... Lees meer

Bodily Discursions

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Postmodern Culture
• This collection of feminist essays from a variety of disciplines explores the idea of the body as a site for the production of political ideologies. B... Lees meer

Memory's Orbit

Joseph Natoli

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Postmodern Culture
• Memoir meets cultural criticism in this examination of American popular culture at the end of the century. Mixing memoir and cultural criticism, Memor... Lees meer

Postmodern Journeys

Joseph Natoli

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Postmodern Culture
• Part memoir, part cultural criticism, this fast-paced ride through the postmodern landscape of American popular culture explores how our responses to ... Lees meer

Home

Hazard Adams

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Postmodern Culture
• A history professor experiences disturbing parallels between the furor over hiring decisions and an alleged case of sexual harassment on his own campu... Lees meer

Rewriting

Christian Moraru

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Postmodern Culture
• Examines the tendency of post-World War II writers to rewrite earlier narratives by Poe, Melville, Hawthorne, and others. Does the postmodern process ... Lees meer

Technologics

Gray Kochhar-Lindgren

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Postmodern Culture
• Uses literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis to explore the emerging logic of the posthuman. Adding to the growing field of posthuman or cyborg stu... Lees meer

The Passing of Postmodernism

Josh Toth

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Postmodern Culture
• Examines the increasingly prevalent assumption that postmodernism is over and that literature and film are once again engaging sincerely with issues o... Lees meer

Other Germanies

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Postmodern Culture
• Explores notions of personal and cultural identity, and offers an introduction to the work of women in literature, film, dance, and visual art in Germ... Lees meer

Fear, Truth, Writing

Alison Leigh Brown

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Postmodern Culture
• This book describes and examines the fear of exposure one faces when creating for cultural consumption. Examining the work of Cixous, Foucault, Irigar... Lees meer

Romantic Desire in (Post)Modern Art and Philosophy

Jos de Mul

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Postmodern Culture
• An erudite and wide-ranging discussion of postmodernism and romanticism in twentieth-century art and philosophy. In this erudite and wide-ranging disc... Lees meer

Counterpleasures

Karmen Mackendrick

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Postmodern Culture
• Takes up a series of literary and physical pleasures that do not appear to be pleasurable, ranging from Christian saintly asceticism to Sadean narrati... Lees meer

Sites of Autopsy in Contemporary Culture

Elizabeth Klaver

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Postmodern Culture
• Explores the role and function of the autopsy in Western culture, from Rembrandt's The Anatomy Lecture to The X-Files and CSI. In this compelling inte... Lees meer

Musing the Mosaic

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Postmodern Culture
• Examines Sukenick's role in reshaping the American literary tradition. In Musing the Mosaic prominent critics of postmodern and contemporary fiction a... Lees meer