Postmodernism and Popular Culture: A Cultural History

by John Docker

Book Overview

In this provocative and timely book, John Docker takes his readers on an intellectual adventure. The journey includes an introductory guided tour of the history of modernism, consideration of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521465982
• ISBN13: 9780521465984
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

to be slightly more fair

The previous reviewer (pzmolek) didn't really give Docker's book a fair reading. Possibly because a lot of big heroes (Jameson, Adorno, etc...) are trashed by Docker in this book?Who knows? In any case, the review above is a woeful summary of what was obviously barely more than a skim. Docker does NOT equate poststructuralism with postmodernism, for example. While he certainly shows inconsistency (most notably in his gushing over Bakhtin), and is not above some self-promotion, his arrogance is hardly beyond the pale in this genre. This is a book that means to be provocative. It's also got some style, some humour, and some (thanks be!) unexpected takes on various issues. Those who have encountered Docker in more typical (and perhaps serious and scholarly) modes, will be aware that he knows his stuff too. Here he is actually trying to reinvigorate (by being nasty and even flippant) a discourse that I think he clearly loves.