Postmodernism

Postmodernism Criticism

• Introduction
• Representative Works
• Overviews
  • The Self-Conscious Moment: Reflections on the Aftermath of Modernism
  • The Myth of the Postmodern Breakthrough
  • Pluralism in Postmodern Perspective
  • The Problem of the Postmodern
• Essays
  • Postmodernity and Hermeneutics
  • 1. Outgrowing the epistemological self-portrait of modernity
  • 2. Postmodernity and the project of going beyond metaphysics
  • 3. Transcending objectivism and technological rationality
  • 4. A. "New Gnosticism": Ihab Hassan
  • 5. The movement beyond Western forms of reality
  • 6. Beyond naturalism
  • 7. The apostles of "new consciousness"
  • 8. New foundations in psychology
  • 9. Radical philosophy of language
  • 10. Postmodern literary theory
  • 1. Hermes: God of the gaps
  • 2. Toward a broader conception of hermeneutics
  • 3. Toward a new interpretive self-awareness for teachers
  • Writing about Postmodern Writing
  • Postmodern Theory/Postmodern Fiction
  • Postmodernism and American Literary History
  • Critical Literacy and the Postmodern Turn
  • Decentering the subject
  • Decentering the text
  • Further criticisms
  • Feminist contributions
  • Subjectivity and subjects/agency and agenthood: Problems with identity politics in emancipatory research
  • Pedagogy in the postmodern age
  • Poststructuralist pedagogy versus political pedagogy
  • Individual Voice in the Collective Discourse: Literary Innovation in Postmodern American Fiction
  • The Name of the Rose' as a Postmodern Novel
  • Postmodernism and Barth and the Present State of Fiction
  • Postmodern Romance: Don DeLillo and the Age of Conspiracy
  • Practicing Post-Modernism: The Example of John Hawkes
  • The Postmodern Novel: The Example of John Irving's The World According to Garp
  • A literature of exhaustion and replenishment
  • The zone of the bizarre
  • The turn away from psychological depth in character
  • Metafiction
  • Reuse of earlier forms
  • The zone of the bizarre
  • Flatness of character
  • Metafiction
  • Surfiction: A Postmodern Position
  • Miriam Marty Clark
  • Languages of Post-Modernism
  • What Is Living and What Is Dead in American Postmodernism: Establishing the Contemporaneity of Some American Poetry
  • Appendix
  • Postmodernism: Extension or End of Modernism? Theater between Cultural Crisis and Cultural Change
• Further Reading