The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodernism - Cambridge Introductions to Literature

Marc Notes: 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, it is ideal for scholars, students and general readers interested in late 20th-century culture. Brief Description: This Introduction surveys the full spectrum of postmodern culture, from architecture and visual art to fiction, poetry, and drama. Table of Contents: 1. Before postmodernism; 2. Big bang; 3. The major phase: peak postmodernism, 1973 90; 4. Interregnum, 1989 2000; 5. After postmodernism."

Contributor Bio:  McHale, Brian 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.