A poetics of postmodernism : history, theory, fiction / Linda Hutcheon.

Neither a defense nor a denunciation of the postmodern, it continues Hutcheon's previous projects in studying formal self-consciousness in art, but adds to this both a historical and ideological dimension.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Hutcheon, Linda, 1947-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; London : Routledge, 1988.
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Table of Contents:
  • Theorizing the postmodern: Toward a poetics
  • Modelling the postmodern: Parody and politics
  • Limiting the postmodern: The paradoxical aftermath of modernism
  • Decentering the postmodern: The ex-centric
  • Contextualizing the postmodern: Enunciation and the revenge of "parole"
  • Historicizing the postmodern: The problematizing of history
  • Historiographic metafiction: "The pastime of past time"
  • Intertextuality, parody, and the discourses of history
  • The problem of reference
  • Subject in/of/to history and his story
  • Discourse, power, ideology: Humanism and postmodernism
  • Political double-talk
  • Conclusion: A poetics or a problematics?