A Poetics of Postmodernism : History, Theory, Fiction

A Poetics of Postmodernism : History, Theory, Fiction

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Publisher's Synopsis

First published in 1988. Postmodernism is a word much used and misused in a variety of disciplines, including literature, visual arts, film, architecture, literary theory, history, and philosophy. A Poetics of Postmodernism is neither a defense nor a denunciation of the postmodern. It continues the project of Hutcheon's Narcissistic Narrative and A Theory of Parody in studying formal self-consciousness in art, but adds to this both a historical and ideological dimension. Modelled on postmodern architecture, postmodernism is the name given here to current cultural practices characterized by major paradoxes of form and of ideology. The poetics of postmodernism offered here is drawn from these contradictions, as seen in the intersecting concerns of both contemporary theory and cultural practice.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780415007061
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Imprint: Routledge
Pub date:
Edition: 1st edition
DEWEY: 809.391
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 284
Weight: 436g
Height: 234mm
Width: 157mm
Spine width: 16mm