Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-170) and index.
Contents
New understanding of language / Italo Calvino -- Ten points about postmodernism / Ihab Hassan -- Irony as the defining principle of postmodernism / Umberto Eco -- Postmodernism and the art of writing / Donald Barthelme -- Tragic view of categories / John Barth -- Surfiction : writing with no restraints / Raymond Federman -- "Cyberpunk" as a branch of postmodernism / Joseph Tabbi -- "X literature" and post-postmodern literature / Daniel Grassian -- Catch-22 : postmodernism looks at World War II / Walter James Miller -- Crying of lot 49 : how not to resolve a mystery / Phillip Brian Harper -- Slaughterhouse-five : restructuring time and space / Jerome Klinkowitz -- Mumbo jumbo and the minority perspective on postmodern America / Erik D. Curren -- If on a winter's night a traveler and metafiction / Salman Rushdie -- Angela Carter : the difficulty of defining a postmodernist / Aidan Day -- Dictionary of the Khazars : hypertextual folklore / Angela Carter -- Emotionless postmodern world of Fargo / Steven Carter -- Is there room for art and beauty in postmodernism / Curtis White -- Postmodernism is irrational / George Englebretsen -- Postmodernism lacks lasting relevance / Walter Laqueur.
