Silvio Gaggi

Modern/Postmodern

A Study in Twentieth-Century Arts and Ideas

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This survey of 20th-century arts and ideas attempts to identify underlying epistemological, aesthetic and ethical issues. The author emphasizes how works from diverse media relate to one another and how their relationships affect the contemporary artistic and philosophical climate.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 1991
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 151mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 349g
• ISBN-13: 9780812213843
• ISBN-10: 081221384X
• Artikelnr.: 43720328

Autorenporträt

Silvio Gaggi is Emeritus Professor of Humanities at the University of South Florida and the author of From Text to Hypertext: Decentering the Subject in Fiction, Film, the Visual Arts, and Electronic Media, also published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Plates
Acknowledgments
1-Introduction
2-Self-Conscious Theatre
3-Replications and Convergences
4-Projecting Genres, Projecting Selves
5-Writing About Writing: John Fowles and John Barth
6-Postmodernism, Posthumanism, and Politics
Bibliography
Index

Rezensionen

"Filled with clarity and insight. . . . It is admirably wide-ranging, touching on science, philosophy, politics, and the arts."--American Book Review