Cambridge Introduction to Postmodernism

This Introduction surveys the full spectrum of postmodern culture, from architecture and visual art to fiction, poetry, and drama.

List of contents

1. Before postmodernism; 2. Big bang; 3. The major phase: peak postmodernism, 1973-90; 4. Interregnum, 1989-2000; 5. After postmodernism.

About the author

Brian McHale is Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of English at Ohio State University. He is the author of Postmodernist Fiction, Constructing Postmodernism, and The Obligation Toward the Difficult Whole. His articles have appeared in such journals as Diacritics, Genre, Modern Language Quarterly, Narrative, New Literary History, Poetics Today, Style, and Twentieth-Century Literature. He is currently co-editing, with Len Platt, The Cambridge History of Postmodern Literature.

Summary

This Introduction surveys the full spectrum of postmodern culture - high and low, avant-garde and popular, famous and obscure - across a range of fields, from architecture and visual art to fiction, poetry, and drama. Comprehensive and accessible, this book is indispensable for scholars, students, and general readers interested in late twentieth-century culture.

Product details

• Authors: Brian McHale, Brian (Ohio State University) Mchale, McHale Brian
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.06.2015
• EAN: 9781107021259
• ISBN: 978-1-107-02125-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Cambridge Introductions to Lit; Cambridge Introductions to Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000