Between the pages of 155 and 268, our narrator, Powers, and Dr. Lentz struggle with their traditional masculine roles, feeling that they must care for and protect their women. Lentz feels responsible for his wife Audrey’s stroke occuring directly after their argument while he was intentionally unreachable. Guilt ridden for not taking enough care, he visits her waning [...]
Let me just say that, as my 37th year speeds toward the platform and is due to arrive in a paltry seven days, I’m not crazy about this novel’s claim about the 35th year:
You begin to think, ‘Well, I more or less understand how things work. Do I really want to disassemble tens of thousands of semi accurate beliefs on [...]
It blows my mind that Rudy Giuliani is running for office on how “well” he handled 9/11. Firemen were killed thanks to his administration’s failure to fix a known radio issue documented as far back as 1993.
This BNF investigative report calls attention to four key questions about Rudy’s handling of the broken radios from firemen’s families and experts:
Why [...]
The latest from MoveOn.org:
A new energy bill is about to pass. Most of it is great. It gets us more solar and wind energy and even makes cars more fuel efficient. But one line was added, last minute, giving up to $50 billion for the nuclear industry - enough money to launch a whole new generation of [...]
The first 48 pages…
I found A Brief Biographical Sketch (excerpted and adapted, with the author’s permission, from Understanding Richard Powers by Joseph Dewey) helpful in understanding the extreme similarities between the author and narrator of Galetea 2.2. In essence, Powers’ life is the source of his fiction and fiction thus becomes his life. This is [...]
Like Cindy Sherman, Nikki S. Lee offers a valuable critique of our social need to identify and be identified in a particular way. She broadens her scope beyond Sherman’s examination of clichéd feminity, inserting herself, as a Korean minority, into the setting and style of many cultural identities.
To contextualize Nikki Lee’s work (ooh, the irony), I visited The Museum of Contemporary [...]
Is this supposed to be therapeutic? I’m just asking. I suppose it’s cheaper than therapy, although I don’t recall seeing it on the ENG377 syllabus.
THE LIST
posts:
2007.09.02 Modern or Postmodern? That is the Question.
2007.09.06 So, What’s the Difference?
2007.09.07 Written WITH the Body
2007.09.09 ‘I’ - Thinking
2007.09.14 Where the Story Starts
2007.09.17 Post Modo Condition
2007.09.19 Fight Club - The Movie
2007.09.20 Futurism in Fight Club (add-on to previous post)
2007.09.25 Why Jameson’s Piece [...]
POSTMODERN REPRESENTATION: A Summary
by Michael Bastian & Kim S. Clune
Photo: Professor Linda Hutcheon; University of Toronto by Kara Dillon
Hutcheon, Linda. The Politics of Postmodernism, 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2002.
HUTCHEON’S TAKE ON POSTMODERNISM
“Postmodern representation is self consciously all of these - image, narrative, product of (and producer of) ideology” (28). Hutcheon finally offers a clear definition of postmodernism as compared [...]
In class, some postmodern themes, concepts and questions we’ve applied to fiction involve:
the power structure of the subject/object relationship
the question of veracity in representation and history
the failure of language and it’s limitation on thought
capitalism as an inextricable driving force in postmodern art
Postmodern photographer Cindy Sherman demonstrates the ways in which these issues also infuse her medium, effectively challenging the traditional [...]
So far this semester, our class has covered:
John Barth’s short story, “Lost in the Fun House”
Jeannette Winterson’s novel, Written on the Body
and Chuck Palahniuk’s novel, Fight Club.
To help define what postmodern means we have explored excerpts from:
Simon Malpas’ book, The Postmodern (2005)
Hélène Cixous’ critique “Sorties: Out and Out: Attacks/Ways Out/Forays” (1975)
Jean-François Lyotard’s The Postmodern Condition (1979)
Frederic Jameson’s [...]
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