The mourning after : attending the wake of postmodernism / edited by Neil Brooks and Josh Toth.

Other author Brooks, Neil (Neil Edward), 1962-
Other author Toth, Josh.
Format Book
Publication InfoAmsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2007.
Descriptionxii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Subjects
Postmodernism (Literature)
Postmodernism.

SeriesPostmodern studies ; 40
Postmodern studies ; 40. ^A456447
Contents Acknowledgements -- Permissions and illustrations -- ARRIVING AND SOCIALIZING AT THE WAKE. Introduction: A wake and renewed? -- Postmodernism in a fundamentalist arena -- Postmodernism in an age of distracting discourses -- Attending to suffering in/at the wake of postmodernism -- Soul service: Foucault's "care of the self" as politics and ethics -- VIEWING AND READING AT THE WAKE. Mood swings: the aesthetics of ambient emergence -- New York, Los Angeles, and other toxicities: revisiting postmodernism in Rushdie's Fury and Shalimar the clown -- Nothing to write home about: impossible reception in Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves -- Turncoat: why Jonathan Franzen finally said "no" to Po-Mo -- Serving Pi(e) at the wake of postmodernism: mathematics and mysticism at the end of the 20th century -- MOURNING AND PRAYING AT THE WAKE. Derrida and the ethics of mourning after -- Postmodernism and the crisis of belief: neo-realism vs. the real -- The weakness of God: a theology of the event -- Contributors.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
ISBN9789042021624 (pbk.)
ISBN9042021624 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks B831.2 .M685 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold