After the Great Divide Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism [Paperback]

One of the most comprehensive and intelligent postmodern critics of art and literature, Huyssen collects here a series of his essays on pomo... Village Voice Literary Supplement

... his work remains alert to the problematic relationship obtaining between marxisms and poststructuralisms. American Literary History

... challenging and astute. World Literature Today

Huyssens level-headed account of this controversial constellation of critical voices brings welcome clarification to todays murky haze of cultural discussion and proves definitively that commentary from the tradition of the German Left has an indispensable role to play in contemporary criticism. The German Quarterly

... we will certainly have, after reading this book, a deeper understanding of the forces that have led up to the present and of the possibilities still open to us. Critical Texts

... a rich, multifaceted study. The Years Work in English Studies

Huyssen argues that postmodernism cannot be regarded as a radical break with the past, as it is deeply indebted to that other trend within the culture of modernitythe historical avant-garde.

Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part One: The Vanishing Other: Mass Culture

1. The HIdden Dialectic: Avantgarde-Technology-Mass Culture
2. Adorno in Reverse: From Hollywood to Richard Wagner
3. Mass Culture as Woman: Modernisms Other

Part Two: Texts and Contexts

4. The Vamp and the Machine: Fritz Langs Metropolis
5. Producing Revolution: Heiner Mullers Mauser as Learning Play
6. The Politics of Indentification: Holocaust and West German Drama
7. Memory, Myth, and the Dream of Reason: Peter Weisss Die Asthetik des Widerstands

Part Three: Toward the Postmodern

8. The Cultural Politics of Pop
9. The Search for Tradition: Avantgarde and Postmodernism in the 1970s
10. Mapping the Postmodern

Notes