Polish Association for American Studies

Methodologies in American Studies
dr Zuzanna Ładyga
z.ladyga@uw.edu.pl

Postmodernism: Evolution of Methodologies — 1980 to the Present
Friday, 15 Feb, 10.00

Reading list

Required readings:

Fredric Jameson:

• “On Interpretation” (1981) The Political Unconscious. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1981.
• “Periodizing the 60s” Social Text 9/10. Spring – Summer 1984. 178-209

Jeffrey T. Nealon, Post-Postmodernism, Or, The Cultural Logic of Just-in-Time Capitalism. 2012. 8-26

Jacques Rancière, The Politics of Aesthetics. London: Continuum, 2004. 12-34.

Highly recommended readings:

Kathleen Fitzpatrick, “Three Discourses on the Age of Television.” The Anxiety of Obsolescence. The American Novel in the Age of Television. Nashville: Vanderbilt UP, 2006. 11-57.

Toby Miller, “Historical Citizenship and the Fremantle Prison Follies: Frederick Wiseman comes to Western Australia” Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 7.2. 1994. 269-289.

Recommended background readings:

Hans Bertens, The Idea of the Postmodern: A History. London: Routledge, 1995.

Fredric Jameson, “Transformations of the Image in Postmodernity” The Cultural Turn Selected Writings on the Postmodern 1983-1998. London: Verso, 1998. 93-116.