Tag: Postmodern

January 4, 2024

Postmodern Belief American Literature and Religion since 1960

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Free Download Amy Hungerford, "Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion since 1960"
English | 2010 | pages: 219 | ISBN: 069114575X | PDF | 0,9 mb
How can intense religious beliefs coexist with pluralism in America today? Examining the role of the religious imagination in contemporary religious practice and in some of the best-known works of American literature from the past fifty years, Postmodern Belief shows how belief for its own sake-a belief absent of doctrine-has become an answer to pluralism in a secular age. Amy Hungerford reveals how imaginative literature and religious practices together allow novelists, poets, and critics to express the formal elements of language in transcendent terms, conferring upon words a religious value independent of meaning.

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January 2, 2024

Transnational Landscapes and Postmodern Poetics

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Free Download Asma Hichri Samira Mechri, "Transnational Landscapes and Postmodern Poetics"
English | ISBN: 1443873330 | 2017 | 201 pages | PDF | 911 KB
This book moves beyond conventional conceptions of space and place to explore how the spatial imagination has informed our postmodern mapping of literature, culture, history, geography and politics. In this volume, scholars from different academic fields contest new territories for critical expression, venturing into a geocritical discussion of notions of identity, borders, territory, cognitive geographies, glocal cultural mobility, gendered spaces, (post)colonial cartographies, and spaces of resistance. These brilliant discussions of the postmodern dialectics of space and place invite a reappraisal of the value of space in our social, political and historical realities, thus extending the geographical imagination beyond its physical and territorial manifestations and investigating its hitherto uncharted spiritual, psychic, emotional, literary, and symbolic terrains. Bringing together theoretical and critical contributions in the fields of culture, history, politics, and literature, this engaging work invites readers to think geocritically about the significance of space and place in the postmodern age. It represents essential reading for students, critics, and scholars from various academic fields and disciplines, including history, geography, cultural studies, anthropology, political science, literature and critical theory.

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July 8, 2023

Postmodern Texts and Emotional Audiences Identity and the Politics of Feeling

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Free Download Postmodern Texts and Emotional Audiences: Identity and the Politics of Feeling By Kimberly Chabot Davis
2007 | 227 Pages | ISBN: 1557534799 | PDF | 18 MB
Chabot Davis analyzes contemporary texts that bond together two seemingly antithetical sensibilities: the sentimental and the postmodern. Ranging across multiple media and offering a methodological union of textual analysis and reception study, Chabot Davis presents case studies of audience responses. Chabot Davis argues that sentimental postmodernism deepened leftist political engagement by moving audiences to identify emotionally with people across the divisions of gender, sexual identity, race, and ethnicity. This study questions the critical equation of postmodernism with apocalyptic nihilism and political apathy. The book also challenges the assumption that sentimentality and sympathy are inherently conservative and imperialistic.

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