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Alain Robbe-Grillet
Allusion
Arbitrariness
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Awareness
Book
Bricolage
Calculation
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Cogito ergo sum
Consciousness
Critique
Dasein
Dialectic
Dialogic
Digression
Discourse analysis
Empiricism
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Essay
Explanation
Explication
Feminism (international relations)
Feminist literary criticism
Feminist theory
Hal Foster (art critic)
Jacques Derrida
Jean-Francois Lyotard
Literature
Manifesto
Martin Heidegger
Measurement
Metaphor
Methodology
Modernity
Morality
Narrative
Novelist
On Practice
Parody
Phenomenon
Philosopher
Philosophy
Poetry
Postmodern literature
Postmodern philosophy
Postmodernism
Potentiality and actuality
Prediction
Pretext
Prose
Relativism
Requirement
Road
Romanticism
Routledge
Science
Subjectivity
Surrealism
Temporality
Textuality
The Differend
The Other Hand
The Postmodern Condition
The Various
Theory
Thought
Two Kinds
Usage
Vladimir Nabokov
Western culture
Writer
Writing
Product details
- ISBN 9780691015170
- Weight: 369g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 25 Nov 1991
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Sequel to History offers a comprehensive definition of postmodernism as a reformation of time. Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth uses a diversified theoretical approachdrawing on post-structuralism, feminism, new historicism, and twentieth-century scienceto demonstrate the crisis of our dominant idea of history and its dissolution in the rhythmic time of postmodernism. She enlarges this definition in discussions of several crises of cultural identity: the crisis of the object, the crisis of the subject, and the crisis of the sign. Finally, she explores the relation between language and time in post-modernism, proposing an arresting theory of her own about the rhythmic nature of postmodern temporality. Because the postmodern construction of time appears so clearly in narrative writing, each part of this work is punctuated by a "rhythm section" on a postmodern narrative (Robbe-Grillet's Jealousy, Cortezar's Hopscotch, and Nabokov's Ada); these extended readings provide concrete illustrations of Ermarth's theoretical positions.
As in her critically acclaimed Realism and Consensus in the English Novel, Ermarth ranges across disciplines from anthropology and the visual arts to philosophy and history. For its interdisciplinary character and its lucid definition of postmodernism, Sequel to History will appeal to all those interested in the humanities.
