Postmodern Flashcards
Jean- Francois Lyotard Quotes
2 quotes
(Clue: puts forward / decline )
The Postmodern ‘puts forward the unpresentable in presentation itself’…[and]… ‘denies itself the solace of good forms’
‘decline in confidence…of a general progress in humanity’
Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Fredric Jameson
5 quotes
(clues: quote / decentring / space or time / masks / failure )
low culture…‘they no longer simply ‘quote’, as Joyce or a Mahler might have done, but incorporate into their very substance.’
‘decentring of that formerly centred subject’
our daily life [is] today dominated by categories of space rather than by categories of time’
‘speak through the masks with the voices of the styles in the imaginary museums’.
‘the failure of the new, the imprisonment in the past’.
Jameson on Ragtime
clue: interception / represent
ragtime ‘real’ characters provoke: ‘interception of already acquired knowledge or doxa- something which lends the text an extraordinary sense of deja vu […] rather than with any solid historiographic formation on the reader’s part.
‘The historical novel can no longer set out to represent the historical past; it can only ‘represent’ our ideas and stereotypes about that past’.
‘The Evil Demon of Images and The Precession of Simulacra’
-Jean Baudrillard
‘these images describe the equal impossibility of the real and of the imaginary…upsetting the balance between the two’
Don Delillo ‘White Noise’ Babette Quote
What did it mean? What was she doing there, in black and white, framed in formal borders? Was she dead, missing, disembodied? Was this her spirit, her secret self, some two-dimensional facsimile released by the power of technology, set free to glide through the wavebands, through energy levels, pausing to say good-bye to us from the fluorescent screen?”
Ragtime
Real Character Quotes
‘Harry Houdini, the escape artist’
‘Evelyn Nesbit, the celebrated beauty’
‘Harry K Thaw, sccentric scion of a coke and railroad fortune’
‘Emma Goldman, the revolutionary’
The Anxiety of Obsolescence
postmodernism: ‘the debates about its meaning are its meaning’
Little Expressionless Animals
Data & Knowledge Quotes
‘must have made to have adsorbed so much date at such a young age’
‘this girl informs trivia with import. She makes it human, so
The language of LEA is that of ‘market share’ : the producer talks about getting ‘into the hearts of every Triscuit consumer in the free world’.
Brain McHale
Postmodern Fiction
‘transworld identities’ (real people in fiction)
‘historical fictions must be realistic fictions’
PM fiction aims to make as jarring as possible the transition from one world to the other
John Ashberry
Litany
It behooves
Our critics to make the poets more aware of
What they’re doing, so that the poets in turn
Can stand back from their work and be enchanted by it
And in this way make room for the general public
To crowd around and be enchanted by it too….
John Ashberry
Definition of Blue
The rise of capitalism parallels the advance of romanticism
And the individual is dominant until the close of the nineteenth century.
Steven Connor
‘where modernist fiction is epistemological…postmodernist fiction is ontological- that is, concerned with the creation and irrigation of worlds of being.
Parker Tyler, Magic and Myth of the Movies
“The true field of the movies is not art but myth…a fiction, a basic, prototypic pattern capable of many variations and distortions, many betrayals and disguises, even though it remains imaginative truth.”
