An anthology of essays on postmodernism, presenting an overview of the genre, looking at the different types of postmodernism, examining specific postmodern works and their authors, and including criticisms of postmodern theory.
Content Note
The new understanding of language / Italo Calvino -- Ten points about postmodernism / Ihab Hassan -- Irony as the defining principle of postmodernism / Umberto Eco -- Postmodernism and the art of writing / Donald Barthelme -- The tragic view of categories / John Barth -- Surfiction: writing with no restraints / Raymond Federman -- "Cyberpunk" as a branch of postmodernism / Joseph Tabbi -- "X literature" and post-postmodern literature / Daniel Grassian -- Catch-22: postmodernism looks at World War II / Walter James Miller -- The Crying of lot 49: how not to resolve a mystery / Phillip Brian Harper -- Slaughterhouse-five: restructuring time and space / Jerome Klinkowitz -- Mumbo jumbo and the minority perspective on postmodern America / Erik D. Curren -- If on a winter's night a traveler and metafiction / Salman Rushdie -- Angela Carter: the difficulty of defining a postmodernist / Aidan Day -- Dictionary of the Khazars: hypertextual folklore / Angela Carter -- The emotionless postmodern world of Fargo / Steven Carter -- Is there room for art and beauty in postmodernism / Curtis White -- Postmodernism is irrational / George Englebretsen -- Postmodernism lacks lasting relevance / Walter Laqueur.