Major Concepts

Provider: Kate Liu / 劉紀雯

I. Postmodernity

II. Postmodernism ( I ):  Literature & History

III. Postmodernism ( II ): Poststructuralism

IV. Postmodernism ( III ): Postmodern Politics & Postmodern Popular Culture

V. Postmodern Space; Postcolonial Resistance

 

I. Postmodernity

   後現代性

3) Jameson--late capitalism and post-industrial society

  中文

 
* Online Version: The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (with pictures) 
   (local excerpted version)

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4) Lyotard--deligitimation and the postmodern sublime 
  * E-Text: The Postmodern Condition

5) Habermas --"Modernity: An Unfinished Project? "

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6) Beaudrillard--TV and computer simulation
7) "Ecstacy of Communication"

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II. Postmodernism ( I ):  Literature & History

    後現代主義:文學與歷史

8) Theories of Metafiction; "Introduction," Metafiction

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9) Hutcheon  "Historiographical Metafiction"
    "The Politics of Parody"
  中文

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10) John Barth "Literature of Replenishment"

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11) Postmodern Poetry
      Taiwanese Postmodern Poetry (an Outline in Chinese)
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III. Postmodernism ( II ): Poststructuralism

    後現代主義:後結構主義

12) Roland Barthes Representation
       intro. site:
Some Post-Structural Assumptions (remote)

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13) Michel Foucault, Power & Subject
14) "Foucault and the Social Sciences"

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15) Representation & Hypertext

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IV. Postmodernism ( III ): Postmodern Politics & Postmodern Popular Culture

    後現代主義: 後現代政治與大眾文化

Postmodernism and Postcolonialism: overlapping, contamination or assimilation? 
16) Simon During

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17) Postmodernism and Feminism
       Owen--pm & feminism 

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18) Laclau--Neo-Marxism

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 TV (music video) and Internet

19) MTV Meets Postmodern  Theory 

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V. Postmodern Space; Postcolonial Resistance
       
後現代空間、後殖民抗拒

20) Postcolonialism and Postmodernism

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(external) Literary Criticism Databank: Postmodernism and Urban Space ;
Postmodern Theories and Texts
  Fall, 1998,   Kate's & the students' photos;
class discussion photos
; Postmodern Space, Postcolonial Resistance  Spring, 1999 ;
Fragments of Identities in North American Postmodern Fiction and Film:
Wen-chi Lin and Kate Liu