A poetics of postmodernism

Routledge

1988

xiii, 268 p.

Includes index.

9780415007061

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? -- Bibliography.

A Poetics of Postmodernism is neither a defense nor a denunciation of the postmodern. It continues the project of Linda Hutcheon's Narcissistic Narrative and A Theory of Parody in studying formal self-consciousness in art, but adds to this both an historical and an 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. - Publisher.

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