Table of Contents

Preface.

Acknowledgements.

Part I: Contexts.

1. Postmodernism and the Academy.

Part II: Posterities. .

2. Postmodernities: Postmodern Social and Legal Theory.

3. Postmodernism in Architecture and the Visual Arts.

4. Postmodernism and Literature.

5. Postmodern Performance.

6. Postmodern TV, Video and Film.

7. Postmodernism and Popular Culture.

Part III: Consequences.

8 Post-Modesty: Renunciation and the Sublime.

9. Postmodernism and Cultural Politics.

Bibliography.

Index.

About the Author

Steven Kevin Connor, FBA is a British literary scholar. Since 2012, he has been the Grace 2 Professor of English in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge.

Reviews

The best overall attempt to consider the postmodern debate across the board - from philosophy to literature to film to architecture to pop video and to popular culture - in an accessible and open style." Malcolm Bradbury, The Guardian (of the first edition)