{"product_id":"rosenberg-barthes-hassan-the-postmodern-habit-of-thought-paperback","title":"Rosenberg\/Barthes\/Hassan: The Postmodern Habit of Thought - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJerome Klinkowitz\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJerome Klinkowitz presents an opening attempt to define postmodernism as it applies to the arts and culture. \u003ci\u003eRosenberg\/Barthes\/Hassan\u003c\/i\u003e discusses the work of three critics who came to prominence in the 1960s, an era of social, ideological, and aesthetic turmoil. Sharing a disdain for modernism's authoritarianism, elitism, and sterile preoccupation with despair, the three critics called for a postmodern art that would emphasize action, reality, and immanence and offer fresh envisionings of the world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKlinkowitz traces the progression of thought that links the work of critic Harold Rosenberg, who introduced the concept of \"action painting\"; the semiotician Roland Barthes, who redefined art, culture, and ideology as language systems; and visionary literary scholar Ihab Hassan, whose works call for nothing less than a rethinking of man's place within the material and spiritual universe.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJerome Klinkowitz is University Distinguished Scholar and Professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa. He is the author or editor of many books on postwar culture and literature, among them \"Structuring the Void: The Struggle for Subject in Contemporary American Fiction,\" \"Slaughterhouse-Five: Reforming the Novel and the World,\" and \"The Practice of Fiction in America: Writers from Hawthorne to the Present.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 148\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.37 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 15, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53301162639667,"sku":"9780820340166","price":60.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/bRD6v01ee9780820340166.webp?v=1777507552","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/rosenberg-barthes-hassan-the-postmodern-habit-of-thought-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}