Supplanting the Postmodern (Hardcover)

Dr. David Rudrum

ISBN 10: 1501306871 / ISBN 13: 9781501306877

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, New York, 2015

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Hardcover. For more than a decade now a steadily growing chorus of voices has announced that the postmodern literature, art, thought and culture of the late 20th century have come to an end. At the same time as this, the early years of the 21st century have seen a stream of critical formulations proclaiming a successor to postmodernism. Intriguing and exciting new terms such as remodernism, performatism, hypermodernism, automodernism, renewalism, altermodernism, digimodernism and metamodernism have been coined, proposed and debated as terms for what comes after the postmodern. Supplanting the Postmodern is the first anthology to collect the key writings in these debates in one place.The book is divided into two parts: the first, The Sense of an Ending, presents a range of positions in the debate around the demise of the postmodern; the second, Coming to Terms with the New, presents representative writings from the new isms mentioned above. Each of the entries is prefaced by a brief introduction by the editors, in which they outline its central ideas, point out the similarities and/or differences from other positions found in the anthology, and suggest possible strengths and limitations to the insights presented in each piece. "An anthology of key writings on the so-called demise of postmodernism and the debates around what might replace it"-- This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Supplanting the Postmodern (Hardcover)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, New York
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1501306871
• ISBN 13: 9781501306877
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

For more than a decade now a steadily growing chorus of voices has announced that the ‘postmodern’ literature, art, thought and culture of the late 20th century have come to an end. At the same time as this, the early years of the 21st century have seen a stream of critical formulations proclaiming a successor to postmodernism. Intriguing and exciting new terms such as ‘remodernism’, ‘performatism’, ‘hypermodernism’, ‘automodernism”, ‘renewalism’, ‘altermodernism’, ‘digimodernism’ and ‘metamodernism’ have been coined, proposed and debated as terms for what comes after the postmodern. Supplanting the Postmodern is the first anthology to collect the key writings in these debates in one place. The book is divided into two parts: the first, ‘The Sense of an Ending’, presents a range of positions in the debate around the demise of the postmodern; the second, ‘Coming to Terms with the New’, presents representative writings from the new ‘–isms’ mentioned above. Each of the entries is prefaced by a brief introduction by the editors, in which they outline its central ideas, point out the similarities and/or differences from other positions found in the anthology, and suggest possible strengths and limitations to the insights presented in each piece.

About the Authors

David Rudrum is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Huddersfield, UK. He is the author of Stanley Cavell and the Claim of Literature (2013) and the editor of Literature and Philosophy: A Guide to Contemporary Debates (2006).

Nicholas Stavris is a PhD student at the University of Huddersfield, UK, where he is writing a thesis on the legacy of postmodernism in contemporary fiction.