The geographical imagination is increasingly recognized as a critical component in contemporary American culture. In this original, interdisciplinary study, Brian Jarvis offers an examination of "new geography" and "mapping the boy," alongside a critique of dominant definitions of postmodernism. Postmodern Cartographies explores spatial representation in a range of texts from social sciences, prose fiction and cinema. It surveys the geography of post-industrial society as advance in the work of Daniel Bell, Marshal McLuhan and Jean Baudrillard; analyzes representations of space in novels by Thomas Pynchon, Paul Auster, Jayne Anne Phillips and Toni Morrison; and, in a key third section, examines sexual politics and body images in science fiction cinema and the films of David Lynch. Jarvis demonstrates an essential continuity between the geographical imagination expressed in so-called postmodern culture and that evident in previous phases in the history of spatial representation.
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Brian Jarvis lectures in American Literature at Loughborough University.
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Long before America was officially charted, in the crude sketches of Enlightenment cartography, its landscapes had been discovered across the wide sargasso seas of the imagination. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Blade Runner, New York, Los Angeles, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, City of Glass, New Right, North America, Viet Nam, Daniel Bell, Brock Vond, The Bluest Eye, The Coming of Post-Industrial Society, Understanding Media, David Lynch, Second World War, Song of Solomon, Sweet Home, City of Quartz, Dorothy Vallens, Laura Palmer, New Left, Paul Auster, Robin Wood, San Narciso New!
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Long before America was officially charted, in the crude sketches of Enlightenment cartography, its landscapes had been discovered across the wide sargasso seas of the imagination. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Blade Runner, New York, Los Angeles, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, City of Glass, New Right, North America, Viet Nam, Daniel Bell, Brock Vond, The Bluest Eye, The Coming of Post-Industrial Society, Understanding Media, David Lynch, Second World War, Song of Solomon, Sweet Home, City of Quartz, Dorothy Vallens, Laura Palmer, New Left, Paul Auster, Robin Wood, San Narciso New!
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- City of Glass: The Graphic Novel (New York Trilogy) by Paul Karasik on 8 pages
- Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan on 6 pages
- The Bluest Eye (Oprah's Book Club) by Toni Morrison on 6 pages
- The New York Trilogy: City of Glass; Ghosts; The Locked Room (Contemporary American Fiction Series) by Paul Auster on 5 pages
- The Production of Space by Henri Lefebvre on 4 pages
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- Contemporary American Fiction: An Introduction to American Fiction since 1970 by Kenneth Millard on page 185, and Back Matter
- City Limits: Crime, Consumer Culture and the Urban Experience (Criminology S.) by Keith Hayward in Back Matter
- Geography in Early Judaism and Christianity: The Book of Jubilees (Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series) by James M. Scott in Back Matter
- Toni Morrison, Second Edtion: Historical Perspectives and Literary Contexts (Modern Novelists) by Linden Peach in Back Matter
- Gothic Motifs in the Fiction of William Gibson (Postmodern Studies 36) by Tatiani G. Rapatzikou in Back Matter
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