Transcending Postmodernism - Performatism 2.0

Transcending Postmodernism: Performatism 2.0 is an ambitious attempt to expand and deepen the theory of performatism. Its main thesis is that, beginning in the mid-1990s, the strategies and norms of postmodernism have been displaced by ones that force readers or viewers to experience effects of aesthetically mediated transcendence.

List of contents

Contents
Foreword
Introduction: Theories of Post-Postmodernism
Chapter One: The Prison-House of Posthistoricism
Chapter Two: A Time for Transcendence
Chapter Three: Performatism and the Ethics of Perpetration
Chapter Four: From Fool to Genius: Separated Subjectivity in Performatism
Chapter Five: Aesthetics, Sexuality and Transcendence
Chapter Six: Performatism and Global Narratives
Chapter Seven: The End of Performatism?
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Raoul Eshelman is a Slavist who received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Constance and who worked primarily at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich until his retirement in 2022.

Summary

Transcending Postmodernism: Performatism 2.0 is an ambitious attempt to expand and deepen the theory of performatism. Its main thesis is that, beginning in the mid-1990s, the strategies and norms of postmodernism have been displaced by ones that force readers or viewers to experience effects of aesthetically mediated transcendence.

Product details

• Authors: Raoul Eshelman, Eshelman Raoul
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032359564
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3235956-4
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Post-Structuralism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000