Böcker av Simon Malpas

A comprehensive study of the most influential figure in postwar American literature, Thomas Pynchon -- .

These are just some of the questions that are explored in this book. Postmodern Debates introduces modernity, postmodernism and postmodernity through a series of debates between prominent thinkers in literary theory, philosophy and cultural studies.

This useful guidebook will introduce students to a range of key thinkers who have sought to question the contemporary situation, and should enable readers to begin to approach the primary texts of post-modern theory and culture with confidence.

An essential student guide to Lyotard and issues in his work, including modernity and the postmodern, the sublime, ethics, history and representation, art and the unpresentable, knowledge and the university and the future.