Arthur Asa Berger

Postmortem for a Postmodernist

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Produktbeschreibung

You and your students are invited to join the detective, Solomon Hunter, in his hunt for knowledge and a killer. Ettore Gnocchi, the famed postmodern theorist, has been murdered at his own dinner party. To find out who killed Gnocchi, the detective Solomon Hunter must first explore postmodernism itself. What is it? Who are Baudrillard, Foucault, and Habermas, and what do they think? Why does any of this matter, anyway? Teach your students postmodern theory with this fun and enlightening text.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Altamira Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9780761989103
• ISBN-10: 0761989102
• Artikelnr.: 38491533

Autorenporträt

Arthur Asa Berger teaches in the Broadcast & Electronic Communication Arts Department at San Francisco State University.

Inhaltsangabe

chapter 1 Acknowledgements chapter 2 Author's Note chapter 3 Personae
chapter 4 1. When the lights went on again... chapter 5 2. "My God-What
happened?" chapter 6 3. Shoshana TelAviv was the first person... chapter 7
4. Alain Fess couldn't sit still for a second. chapter 8 5. "How can I help
you?" asked Slavomir Propp. chapter 9 6. Myra Prail looked terrible.
chapter 10 7. If Basil Constant was gay... chapter 11 8. The "porcelain
doll," Miyako Fuji... chapter 12 9. After Miyako Fuji left... chapter 13
10. Hunter pulled out a number of letters... chapter 14 11. The second
letter Ettore sent was to Jean Baudrillard... chapter 15 12. The third
letter was to Jurgen Habermas. chapter 16 13. The fourth letter was to
Fredric Jameson. chapter 17 14. "What a funny guy this Gnocchi was..."
chapter 18 15. Hunter slipped the video out of its box... chapter 19 16.
Shoshana TelAviv couldn't fall asleep... chapter 20 17. As was his custom,
Alain Fess wrote in his journal... chapter 21 18. When she got home, Myra
Prail made an emergency call... chapter 22 19. Miyako Fuji poured herself a
beer... chapter 23 20. Slavomir Propp was bored. chapter 24 21. "Who was
responsible for the death of Ettore Gnocchi?" chapter 25 22. The next day
Basil Constant started a new novel... chapter 26 Selected Bibliography
chapter 27 Index chapter 28 About the Author