Category: Volume 1 – Number 2 – January 1991
Anouncements & Advertisements
September 26, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 01, Number 2, January 1991 |
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Every issue of Postmodern Culture will carry notices of events, calls for papers, and other announcments, up to 250 words, free of charge. Advertisements will also be published on an exchange basis. Send anouncements and advertisements to: pmc@jefferson.village.virginia.edu Journal Announcements: 1) Sulfur 2) Denver Quarterly 3) Monographic Review/Revista Monografica 4) SubStance–special […]
Postface
September 26, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 01, Number 2, January 1991 |
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[What follows is a written exchange between the editors about the contents of this issue of Postmodern Culture. As a “postface,” it is meant to be read after the other items in the issue; we hope it will serve as a preface to discussion among other readers. Please send your comments on the […]
Graven Images
September 26, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 01, Number 2, January 1991 |
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Henry Hart The College of William & Mary Karen Mills-Courts. Poetry as Epitaph, Representation and Poetic Language. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1990. 326 pp. $39.95 cloth, $16.95 paper. It might seem strange that a book erected on the deconstructionist foundations of Jacques Derrida should take its title from that celebrated advocate […]
The Satanism Scare
September 26, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 01, Number 2, January 1991 |
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Gerry O’Sullivan University of Pennsylvania The satanism scare has spawned its share of rumor panics over the last several years. This past Halloween, fundamentalist and evangelical pastors across the country fed faxes to one another about an international convocation of satanists allegedly held in Washington, D.C. in September. The gathering–or so self-described experts claimed–was […]
Crisis In The Gulf, by George Bush, Saddam Hussein, Et Alia. As Told tothe New York Times.
September 26, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 01, Number 2, January 1991 |
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Frederick M. Dolan University of California at Berkeley . . . the bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions. — Paul de Man In the life of a nation, we’re called upon to define who we […]
Sartre and Local Aesthetics: Rethinking Sartre as an Oppositional Pragmatist
September 26, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 01, Number 2, January 1991 |
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Paul Trembath Colorado State University And that lie that success was a moving upward. What a crummy lie they kept us dominated by. Not only could you travel upward toward success but you could travel downward as well; up and down, in retreat as well as in advance, crabways and crossways and around in […]
A Poem
September 26, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 01, Number 2, January 1991 |
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–SBB with Alamgir Hashmi Islamabad, Pakistan Post Scrotum Watt? Yes. But the same when the Mal’oun died in the island; this island severed, repousse, reeling with peat-reek; this drizzle of grief– interminable falling on the wide sea. Moll’s face saffron-coloured, hair like petals plucked from a white chrysanthemum; local boys on stout or […]
The Second War and Postmodern Memory
September 26, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 01, Number 2, January 1991 |
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Charles Bernstein State University of New York at Buffalo Now light your pipe; look, what a steady hand, Draw a deep breath; stop thinking, count fifteen, And you’re as right as rain. . . . Books; what a jolly company they are, Standing so quiet and patient on their shelves . . . . […]
Two Poems
September 26, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 01, Number 2, January 1991 |
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James McCorkle Hobart and William Smith Colleges Combustion of Early Summer The elation of the past is over, the news tells us, Suggesting it was there to begin with Or recoverable, like a heavy ore or a shipwreck. But on closer inspection, the past buzzes around us, A conversation in another room […]
Incloser
September 26, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 01, Number 2, January 1991 |
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Susan Howe Temple University Some of this essay has been published in The Politics of Poetic Form; Poetry and Public Policy, edited by Charles Bernstein, Roof Books. [What follows is an excerpt from a book to be published in 1991 by Weaselsleeves Press. –Eds.] Turned back from turning back as if a loved […]
Grammatology Hypermedia
September 26, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 01, Number 2, January 1991 |
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Greg Ulmer University of Florida at Gainesville This article is about an experiment I conducted for publication in a volume collecting the papers read at the Sixteenth Annual Alabama Symposium on English and American Literature: “Literacy Online: the Promise (and Peril) of Reading and Writing with Computers,” October 26-28, 1989 (organized by Myron Tuman). […]
His Master’s Voice: On William Gaddis’sJR
September 26, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 01, Number 2, January 1991 |
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Patrick J. O’Donnell University of West Virginia In William Gaddis’sJR, voice partakes of the “postmodern condition” where, as Jean Baudrillard says, everything is constituted by “the force which rules market value: capital must circulate; gravity and any fixed point must disappear; the chain of investments and reinvestments must never stop; value must radiate endlessly […]