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The Persistence of the Modernist Heritage
Peter V. Zima, Why the Postmodern Age Will Last? · Philip Tew, A New Sense of Reality? A New Sense of the Text? Exploring Meta-Realism and the Literary Critical Field · Lena Petrovic, Hear the Voice of the Artist: Postmodernism as Faustian Bargain · Bernd Klähn, The Threefold Way: About the Heuristics and Paradigmatics of (Post)Modernist Culture and Literature · Peter Paul Schnierer, Modernist at Best: Poeticitiy and Tradition in Hyperpoetry · Doris Teske, Beyond Postmodernist Thirdspace? – The Internet in a Post-Postmodern World
Re-Reading Postmodernism
Christophe Den Tandt , Pragmatic Commitments: Postmodern realism in Don De Lillo, Maxine Hong Kingston and James Ellroy · Christopher Norris, Why Derrida is not a Postmodernist? · Helga Thalhofer, Paradox vs. Analogy: De Man and Foucault · Peter Mortensen, ‘Civilization’s Fear of Nature’: Postmodernity, Culture, and Environment in The God of Small Things
Beyond Posmodernism
Ihab Hassan, Beyond Postmodernism: Toward an Aesthetic of Trust · Klaus Stierstorfer, Wobbly Grounds: Postmodernism’s Precarious Footholds in Novels by Bradbury, Parker, Rushdie, Swift · Vera Nünning , Beyond Indifference: New Departures in British Fiction at the Turn of the 21st Century · Dietmar Böhnke, Shades of Gray: The Peculiar Postmodernism of Alasdair Gray · Victoria Lipina-Berezkina, American Postmodernist Literature at the Turn of the Millenium: the Death and Return of the Subject · Susanne Peters, The Anglo-Irish Playwright Martin Mc Donagh: Postmodernist Zeitgeist as Cliché and a (Re)turn to the Voice of Common Sense · Laurenz Volkmann, Extension of the Battle Zone: Ian Mc Ewan’s Cult Novel The Cement Garden
Giới thiệu về tác giả
Klaus Stierstorfer is Professor for English Literature at the University of Düsseldorf.