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In:Approaching Postmodernism: Papers presented at a Workshop on Postmodernism, 21–23 September 1984, University of Utrecht
Edited by Douwe W. Fokkema † and Hans Bertens
[Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature 21] 1986
► pp. v–vi

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Table of contents

Forewordvii
Preliminary remarks1
The postmodern Weltanschauung and its relation with modernism: An introductory survey9
Change of dominant from modernist to postmodernist writing53
The semantic and syntactic organization of postmodernist texts81
The presence of postmodernism in British fiction: Aspects of style and selfhood99
From hypothesis to Korrektur: Refutation as a component of postmodernist discourse119
Duplication and multiplication: Postmodernist devices in the novels of Italo Calvino135
Postmodernism in Russian drama: Vampilov, Amalrik, Aksënov157
The absurd and its forms of reduction in postmodern American fiction185
Postmodernism in Americam fiction and art211
Modernism cut in half: The exclusion of the avant-garde and the debate on postmodernism233
Postmodernism and some paradoxes of periodization239
Naming and difference: Reflections on “Modernism versus postmodernism” in literature255
Note on the contributors271
References275
Index291
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