postmodernism

[Dave Monroe]

Hoo, boy ... well, there's a lot of controversy over whether or not
there even is/was such a ... an event? whatever, as postmodernism,
whether or not there were/are postmodernisms, but ... but, on the other
hand, try even a quick definition of modernism.  Or ("the")
Renaissance.  Or ("the") Medieval.  And so forth ... but a short list of
useful texts:

--Zygmunt Bauman, Intimations of Postmodernity
--Hal Foster, ed., The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture
--David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity
--Ihab Hassan, The Postmodern Turn (n.b.--IH sez pm is gnostic as well)
--Linda Hutcheon, Poetics of Postmodernism
--Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Capitalism
--Charles Jencks, Postmodernism
--Ann E. Kaplan, ed., Postmodernism and Its Discontents
--Jean-Francois Lyotard, The Postmodern Consition
--Brian McHale, Constructing Postmodernism
--Masao Miyoshi and H.D. Harootunian, eds., Postmodernism and Japan
--Robert Venturi, et al., Learning from Las Vegas
--Alan Wilde, Horizons of Assent

But is there any aspect of a postmodernism you're interseted in?  Let us
know ...


Toshiyuki Sakabe wrote:

> Anybody out there?
>
> Could you explain me what postmodernism is?
>
> Tosh Sakabe
>
> --
> Toshiyuki Sakabe
> tsakabe at dohto.ac.jp