What we call the beginning is often the end.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from. (T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets)

I. Postmodernity

II. Lit. & History III.Poststructuralism

IV. Postmodern Politics & Postmodern Popular Culture

2) Jencks, Charles.  "The Post-Modern Agenda."  The Post-Modern Reader.  Ed. Charles Jencks.  New York: St Martin's Press, 1992: 10-39.

3﹚Jameson, Fredric.  "Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism."  Ed. Thomas Docherty.  Postmodernism: A Reader.  New York: Harvester, 1993.

4) Lyotard, Jean-Francois.  "Answering the Question: What is postmodernism?"  Foster, Hal, ed. The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture. Seattle: Bay P, 1983.

5) Jurgen Habermas, "Modernity -- An Incomplete Project."  (from Jenck's Reader)

6)  Beaudrillard, Jean. "The Procession of Simulacra."   Ed. Wallis, Brian.  Art Aafter Modernism : Rethinking Representation.　New York : David R. Godine Publisher, 1984.　

7) Jean Baudrillard, "The Ecstacy of Communication."   The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture. Seattle: Bay P, 1983.

II. Postmodernism (1):  Literature & History
8) "Introduction."  Currie, Mark, ed. Metafiction.  New York : Longman Group, 1995.

9) Hutcheon, Linda.  "Historiographical Metafiction: 'the pastime of past time.'"  A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction. New York: 1988.

10) Barth, John. "Literature of Replenishment" (from Jenck's Reader)　

III. Postmodernism (II): Poststructuralism

11)  Barthes, Roland.  "From Work to Text."   (from Wallis Reader)
        ---.  "Myth Today"; "Rhetoric of the Image." from Representation.
       Hall, Stuart.  Excerpt from "The Work of Representation." 36-64.  Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices.   Ed. Stuart Hall.  London: Sage, 1997.

12) Michel Foucault, "The Subject and Power"  (from Wallis Reader)

13) The Foucault Chapter in  Sarup, Madan. An Introductory Guide to Post-structuralism and Postmodernism.   Athens : University of Georgia Press, 1993. ?

IV. Postmodernism (IV): Postmodern Politics & Postmodern Popular Culture
14) During, Simon.  "Postmodernism or Post-Colonialism Today."   (from Docherty Reader)

15) Owen, Craig.  "The Discourse of Others." (from Folster Reader)

16)  Nancy Fraser & Linda Nicholson, "Social Criticism without Philosophy: An Encounter between Feminism and Postmodernism."  (from Docherty Reader)

17) Laclau, Ernesto. "Politics and the Limits of Modernity" (from Docherty Reader)

18) Goodwin, Andrew.  "Fatal Distractions: MTV Meets Postmodern  Theory."  Ed. Simon Frith, et al.  Sound and Vision: The Music Video Reader.  New York: Routledge, 1993.

I. Articles on Taiwanese Identity -- Can we move beyond Union/Independence issue now?
邱貴芬·〈「發現台灣」：建構台灣後殖民論述 〉· 《中外文學  》第二十一卷•第二期(July 1992)

廖朝陽·是四不像，還是虎豹獅象？-- 再與邱貴芬談臺灣文化 〉·《中外文學 》第二十一卷•第三期 (August 1992)
邱貴芬·〈咱攏是臺灣人」-- 答廖朝陽有關臺灣後殖民論述的問題  〉·《中外文學 》第二十一卷•第三期 (August 1992)
 

陳昭瑛：論台灣的本土化運動：一個文化史的考察 《中外文學  》第二十三卷•第九期 (February
     1995)
陳芳明：百年來的台灣文學與台灣風格－台灣新文學運動史導論 《中外文學  》第二十三卷•第九期 (February 1995)
 

廖朝陽：中國人的悲情：回應陳昭瑛並論文化建構與民族認同 《中外文學  》第二十三卷• (March  1995)
張國慶：追尋台灣意識的定位：透視＜論台灣的本土化運動＞之迷思  《中外文學  》第二十三卷• (March  1995)

傳播與認同專刊· 《新聞學研究》· Vol 65 (1998).    台北：政治大學新聞研究所·
e.g.《衛星電視與國族想像：以衛視中文台的日劇為觀察對象》 "Cable Channel and National Immaginary."

Liao, Ping-hui.  "Literary Discourse and Public Culture in Taiwan." Boundary 2  Vol 24 No. 3 (Fall,
             1997): 41-64.

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