Exploring Postmodernism. Selected papers presented at a Workshop on Postmodernism at th Xith International Comparative Literature Congress, Paris, 20-24 August 1985. [Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature 23]

CALINESCU, Matei & Douwe W. FOKKEMA (Edited by)

ISBN 10: 9027221995 / ISBN 13: 9789027221995

Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, 1987

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pp.viii 269 pages, a near fine hardback in a generally very good dust-jacket (spine sunned somewhat) with further protection having been kept in a removable plastic sleeve [9027221995].

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Exploring Postmodernism. Selected papers presented at a Workshop on Postmodernism at th Xith International Comparative Literature Congress, Paris, 20-24 August 1985. [Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature 23]
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam/Philadelphia
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027221995
• ISBN 13: 9789027221995
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • English Literary Criticism

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Synopsis

The great diversity of contexts in which the term Postmodernism is currently encountered reflects the remarkable success of a coinage that has been in circulation for only about forty years. It has been used by philosophers, sociologists, art critics and literary historians to become, finally, a household word in the language of advertising and politics. Before letting it fade to a derelict cliché, an attempt is made in this volume of essays to use its potential as a cultural concept for the analysis and understanding of contemporary literature and thought.