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A poetics of postmodernism : history, theory, fiction / Linda Hutcheon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hutcheon, Linda, 1947-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fiction--20th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- Fiction.
- Postmodernism (Literature).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (283 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 1988.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; 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 revengeof ~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 postmodernismPolitical double-talk; Conclusion: a poetics or a problematics?; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Inclues bibliography and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-98626-2
- 0-415-00705-4
- 1-134-98627-0
- 1-280-03708-3
- 0-203-35885-6
- 9780203358856
- OCLC:
- 229923222
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