Research Catalog

Title

Conceptualising the global in the wake of the postmodern : literature, culture, theory / Joel Evans, University of Nottingham.

Author

Evans, Joel, 1987-

Publication

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

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Details

Description

vi, 203 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

• "This book argues that, in the wake of the postmodern, contemporary culture becomes once again concerned with totality, the main focal point of expression for this being concepts of the global. It uncovers predominant ways of conceptualising the global in contemporary literature, film and theory. In so doing, it offers a fresh approach to the study of globalisation and culture, identifying four main categories under which concepts of the global can be placed: the immanent, the transcendent, the contingent and the beyond-measure. Alongside this, it discovers a confrontation between two predominant ways of figuring human relations on a global scale. Conceptualising the Global in the Wake of the Postmodern examines the works of various authors and filmmakers, such as Margaret Atwood, Don DeLillo, Kazuo Ishiguro, Douglas Coupland, David Cronenberg, Charlie Kaufman, and David Lynch, to show how the idea of totality has returned in contemporary culture"--
• "The earth, far from being a sphere, is "sausage-shaped" Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman. Although the above assertion - made by the fictional philosopher de Selby in Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman (1967) - is patently, and intentionally absurd, it nevertheless proves instructive in outlining the purpose and aims of this book. De Selby arrives at this conclusion by claiming, first, that there are only two possible directions of travel across the Earth. One can either go north or south, but ultimately this makes little difference as (if travelling in a straight line), one will eventually arrive back at the starting point, having somehow, therefore, travelled in both directions. The same point, by this logic, holds for travelling either east or west"--

Series Statement

Cambridge studies in twenty-first-century literature and culture

Uniform Title

Cambridge studies in twenty-first-century literature and culture.

Subjects

• Postmodernism
• Literature and globalization
• LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
• Postmodernism (Literature)
• Motion pictures and globalization
• Globalization in literature
• Globalization in motion pictures

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Immanence I: Atwood, Danielewski and Sloterdijk -- Immanence II: Cronenberg, Kaufman, Hardt and Negri -- Transcendence: DeLillo, Self and Blomkamp -- Contingency: Cloud Atlas, Meillassoux and Ali Smith -- Beyond-measure: Ishiguro, Keiller and Lynch -- Conclusion.

Call Number

JFE 20-2666

ISBN

• 9781108497015
• 1108497012
• 9781108683722 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019008381

OCLC

1090437313

Author

Evans, Joel, 1987- author.

Title

Conceptualising the global in the wake of the postmodern : literature, culture, theory / Joel Evans, University of Nottingham.

Publisher

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Cambridge studies in twenty-first-century literature and culture

Cambridge studies in twenty-first-century literature and culture.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Form:

ebook version : 9781108683722

Research Call Number

JFE 20-2666