*Sorry, but I'm afraid that critics will have to empty clip after clip of rounds into the carcass of the thing and it's still gonna squirm. *Entertaining reading ...

AVANT-POP? IS THAT LIKE A NEW SOFT DRINK OR WHAT? JUST WHEN YOU thought you'd figured out postmodernism or "po mo" to the "po mos," there's a new and noisy, gen-x kid on the block. It's "avant-pop," a ...

Self-consciousness, self-reflexivity [1] and metafiction are terms often used to describe a particular characteristic common to postmodern fiction. Robert Alter has defined the “self-conscious novel” ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — John Barth, the playfully erudite author whose darkly comic and complicated novels revolved around the art of literature and launched countless debates over the art of fiction, died ...

Twenty first century has gone great lengths in dismantling the long-established cultural norms of the world and is therefore much relevant to the postcolonialism and postmodernism because these two ...

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Contemporary literature, literary theory, Asian American studies, narrative theory, gender, and class. The relationship of narrative forms to race, gender, and class/capitalism; cognitive cultural ...