These fifteen new essays engage topics from architecture to
politics and from fast food to film, revealing the problems and
potential of postmodern cultural criticism. Resisting the
temptation to use "postmodern" as a catch-all label. Postmodern
Times offers a clear and engaging reading of the value and limits
of postmodernist approaches to present-day society and culture.
Contributors include some of the most preeminent critics and
scholars working today. Linda Hutcheon defines opera's postmodern
moment"; Henry Giroux decodes postmodern education; Charles Jencks
inspects the foundations of contemporary architecture; Thomas
Docherry confronts postmodernn politics; Michael Zeitlin places
psychoanalysis on the postmodern couch; and Diane Elam reconsiders
the intersections and collisions between feminist and postmodern
theory. Other essays consider the culture wars within literary
criticism, the new aesthetics of electronic media, and the
direction of the "linguistic turn" in the sciences.
Postmodern Times provides a comprehensive survey that accessibly
and concretely applies postmodern insights to the contemporary
world. Interdisciplinary in scope, it will be a valuable critical
guide for those interested in art, politics, literature, popular
culture, and the new media, and for everyone seeking to understand
our postmodern times.
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