The Politics of Postmodernism
LINDA HUTCHEON
Concluding note: some
directed reading
In order to keep referencing to a minimum in the text, I list below some of the
major points discussed and suggested readings from the bibliography.
Specific cultural forms
Postmodernism and architecture: Jencks 1977, 1980a1980b1982;
Portoghesi 1974, 1982, 1983; McLeod 1985; Stern 1980; Lerup 1987;
Brolin 1976; D. Davis 1987; M. Davis 1985; Jameson 1985; Tafuri 1980.
Postmodernism and film: Creed 1987; Carroll 1985; most issues of Screen.
Postmodernism and fiction: McHale 1987; Hutcheon 1988; McCaffery
1986a1986b; Newman 1985; Klinkowitz 1985, 1986; Thiher 1984;
, ,
,
Stevick 19811985; Mellard 1980; Tanner 1971; Bradbury 1983; Lodge
,
1977; Ebert 1980; Lauzen 1986; Lee 1988; Malmgren 1985; Porush
1985; Wilde 19811987; Zimmerman 1986.
,
Postmodernism and poetry: Rawson 1986; Altieri 1973, 1984; Davidson
1975; Perloff 1985; Moramarco 1986; Russell 1985.
170 The Politics of Postmodernism
Postmodernism and television: Grossberg 1987; Roberts 1987; Eco 1984;
Baudrillard 1983; Kaplan 1987.
Postmodernism and photography: Abbas 1984; Crimp 1979, 19801983,
,
1987; Starenko 1983; Thornton 1979; Andre 1984; Barber 1983/4;
Bellavance 1986; Corrigan 1985; Goldberg 1988; Graham 1985; Mulvey
1986; Phillips 1987; Sekula 1982; Solomon-Godeau 1984a 1984b;
,
Burgin 1982b, 1986a1986b; Tagg 1982; Wollen 1978/9.
,
General studies of the concept of the postmodern
In visual arts: D. Davis 1977, 1980; Owens 1982; Crimp 1980, 1983;
Buchloh 1984; James 1985; Jameson 1986–7; Kibbins 1983; Krauss
1979, 1985, 1987; Kuspit 1984; Lippard 1976; Paoletti 1985.
In literature and criticism: Arac 1987; Paterson 1986; Kohler 1977; Hassan
1971, 1975, 1980a1980b198219861987; Hoffmann et al. 1977; Graff
, , , ,
1973, 1979, 1981; Bertens 1986; Huyssen 1986; Calinescu 1987;
Hutcheon 1988; Russell 1985; Huyssen 1986.
In social and cultural studies: Palmer 1977; Lyotard 1984a1984b1986;
, ,
Habermas 1983, 1985a1985b; Baudrillard 1983; Kroker and Cook
,
1986; Bell 1973, 1976; Russell 1985; Benhabib 1984; Trachtenberg
1985; Bauman 1987; Bennett 1987; Collins 1987; Davidson 1975;
Jameson 1983, 1984a, 1984c; Kramer 1982; Muller 1979; Owens 1980a,
1980b, 1983, 1984; Foster 1983, 1985; Polkinhorn 1987; Radhakrishnan
1986; Schmidt 1986; Wellbery 1985.
On postmodernism and modernism: Eagleton 1985; Jameson 1984a; Foster
1985; Huyssen 1986; Greenberg 1980; Latimer 1984; Laffey 1987;
Silliman 1987; Calinescu 1977: 120–44; Wilde 1981, 1987; Burger 1987;
Garvin 1980; Giddens 1981; Hayman 1978; Malmgren 1987; Nagele
1980/1; Raulet 1984; Rowe 1987; Russell 1982; Scherpe 1986/7;
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