In this influential volume, Peter Brooker presents some of the key viewpoints of modernism and postmodernism from a variety of major critics and sets these alongside challenging arguments from Third World, Black and Feminist perspectives. His excellent introduction and detailed headnotes for each section and essay provide an indispensable guide to interpreting the many different opinions, and prove to be valuable contributions in their own right.

General Editors' Preface Acknowledgements Editor's Preface Introduction: ReconstructionPart One: Modernist postitions 1. George Lukaacs, from ". Bertolt Brecht from 'The Popular and the Reaslistic.' 2. Walter Benjamin, from 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.' 3. Theodor Adorno 'Letter to Walter Benjamin.' 4. Peter Burger,'Avant-Gaarde and Engagement.' Repositioning Modernism 5. Marshall Berman, 'The 20th Century: the Halo and the Highway.' 6. Raymond Williams, 'The Metropolis and the Emergence of Modernism.' 7. Jean Radford, from 'Coming to Terms: Dorothy Richardson, Modernism and Women.' 8. Houston A Baker, from "Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance." 9. Laleen Jayamanne, Geeta Kapur and Yvonne Rainer, from 'Discussing Modernity', Third World and "The Man who Envied Women." Part Two: Postmodern Narratives 10. Jurgen Habermas, 'Modernity - and Incomplete Project.' 11. Jean-Francois Lyotard, 'Answering the Question: What is Postmodernism?' 12. Jean Baudrillard, from 'Simulacra and Simulations.' 13. Frederic Jameson, 'Postmodernism and Consumer Society.' Popular Capitalism and Popular Culture 14. David Harvey, from 'The Constitution of Postmodernity'. An Enquiry into the Origins of Social Change. 15. Ian Chambers, Contanimation, Coincidence and Collusion, Pop Music, Urban and the Avant-Garde. A Feminist Postmodernism? 16. Julia Kristeva, 'Postmodernism?' 17. Laura Kipnis, from Feminism: the Politcal Conscience of Postmodernism?' Black Culture and Postmodernism 18. Cornel West from 'An Interview with Cornell West Anders Stephanson.' Post Modernist Fiction 19. Umberto Eco, 'Postmodernism, Irony, the Enjoyable.' 20. Linda Hutcheon, 'Telling Stories: Fiction and History.' 21. Carlos Fuentes, 'Words Apart.' Notes on Authors Further Reading Index