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

Description

Main Author

Hutcheon, Linda, 1947-

Language(s)

English

Published

New York : Routledge, 1988

Subjects

Postmodernism.
Civilization, Western.
Civilization, Modern.
Postmodernism (Literature)
Fiction > Fiction / 20th century > Fiction / 20th century / History and criticism > Fiction / 20th century / History and criticism / Theory, etc

Summary

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

Note

"Printed in Great Britain"--Page iv

Physical Description

xiii, 268 pages ; 25 cm

ISBN

9780416082524
0416082521
9780416082425
0416082424
9780415007061
0415007062
9780415007054
0415007054

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