The Cambridge introduction to postmodernism /

McHale, Brian,

The Cambridge introduction to postmodernism / Brian McHale, Ohio State University. - New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015. - xii, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-220) and index.

Introduction: What was postmodernism?
1. Before postmodernism
2. Big bang
3. The major phase: peak postmodernism, 1973-90 4. Interregnum, 1989-2001 5. After postmodernism Ruins

This book 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. It deftly maps postmodernism's successive historical phases, from its emergence in the 1960s to its waning in the first decades of the twenty-first century. Weaving together multiple strands of postmodernism - Read more...

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