Patricia Waugh

Bio: Patricia Waugh is an academic researcher from Durham University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Literary criticism & Postmodernism. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 24 publications receiving 1066 citations.

Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction

Abstract: Metafiction begins by surveying the state of contemporary fiction in Britain and America and explores the complex political, social and economic factors which influence critical judgment of fiction. The author shows how, as the novel has been eclipsed by the mass media, novelists have sought to retain and regain a wide readership by drawing on the themes and preoccupations of these forms. Making use of contemporary fiction by such writers as Fowles, Borges, Spark, Barthelme, Brautigan, Vonnegut and Barth, and drawing on Russian Formalist theories of literary evolution, the book argues that metafiction uses parody along with popular genres and non-literary forms as a way not only of exposing the inadequate and obsolescent conventions of the classic novel, but of stuggesting the lines along which fiction might develop in the future.

Modern Literary Theory : A Reader

Abstract: This book provides a collection of source material to the major developments in literary theory since the late sixties. The first part charts the establishment of a new critical practice, and the second part covers "post structuralist " studies.

Feminine Fictions: Revisiting the Postmodern

Abstract: Waugh presents an analysis of the relations between feminism and postmodernism both through a theoretical investigation and through readings of modern fiction. Authors discussed include Woolf, Drabble, Plath and Walker. This book should be of interest to students and teachers of modern fiction, women's studies, psychoanalysis, contemporary literature, literary theory.

Literary theory and criticism : an Oxford guide

Abstract: Literart Theory and Criticism : An Oxford Guide is unique in its comprehensive coverage. Consisting of 38 essays, written by experts in each field, the volume provides explication, evaluation, and historical contextualization of the theory and practice of literary criticism.

Practising postmodernism, reading modernism

Abstract: Instead of accepting postmodernism on its own terms as a radical break with previous Western modes of knowledge and representation, it is more faithful, argues the author of this book, to view it as a late phase in a tradition of specifically aestheticist modern thought inaugurated by philosophers such as Kant and embodied in romantic and modernist art. In pursuing this belief, the concern is as much to problematize the construction of modernism as with the elucidation of postmodernism. The first part of the book examines the main positions in the postmodernism debate, developing some of the book's central ideas in the process. The second part of the book devotes itself, in part, to the implications for modernism of the arguments advanced, and challenges views of modernist writing that derive from theories of autonomy. The discussion is supported by close readings of three "postmodern" and four "modernist" texts.

Liberatory Postmodernism and the Reenchantment of Consumption

Abstract: In this article, we elaborate on various key ideas about consumption and consumer from a theoretical position that we have labeled "liberatory postmodernism." By unmasking the limitations of modernism that have to do with the onerous nature of its metanarratives and narrow conventionalism, we show that postmodern developments offer alternate visions of consumption processes that have an emancipatory potential. The analysis in our article begins with a discussion of the philosophical foundations of modernism and postmodernism followed by a cultural critique of modernism-exposing, for example, the modernist distinction between production and consumption and the privileging of production over consumption. We demonstrate how postmodernism is concerned with the reversing of the conditions of modernity and with a wide range of issues regarding the construction of the subject (i.e., the consumer), the role of the symbolic in consumption processes, the notion of the spectacularization of life, the creation of the hyperreal, and the cultural signification of fragmentation. We conclude the article with a proposal for an epistemology of consumption that subsumes scientific knowledge under a broader category of narrative knowledge and recognizes multivocality of consumption forms.

Frank Kermode and the Invented World@@@The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction

Abstract: A pioneering attempt to relate the theory of literary fiction to a more general theory of fiction, using fictions of apocalypse as a model. This pioneering exploration of the relationship of fiction to age-old conceptions of chaos and crisis offers many new insights into some of the most unyielding philosophical and aesthetic enigmas. Examining the works of a wide range of writers from Plato to William Burroughs, Kermode demonstrates how writers have persistently imposed their \"fictions\" upon the face of eternity and how these have reflected the apocalyptic spirit.

Supersizing The Mind Embodiment Action And Cognitive Extension Andy Clark

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The Idea of the Postmodern : A History

Abstract: At last! Everything you ever wanted to know about postmodernism but were afraid to ask. Hans Bertens' Postmodernism is the first introductory overview of postmodernism to succeed in providing a witty and accessible guide for the bemused student. In clear and straightforward but always elegant prose, Bertens sets out the interdisciplinary aspects, the critical debates and the key theorists of postmodernism. He also explains, in thoughtful and illuminating language, the relationship between postmodernism and poststructuralism, and that between modernism and postmodernism. An enjoyable and indispensible text for today's student.