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In:Exploring Postmodernism: Selected papers presented at a Workshop on Postmodernism at the XIth International Comparative Literature Congress, Paris, 20–24 August 1985
Edited by Matei Calinescu and Douwe W. Fokkema †
[Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature 23] 1988
► pp. vii–viii

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Table of contents

Prefacev

Matei Calinescu

Douwe W. Fokkema

I. General Problems1

Introductory Remarks: Postmodernism, the Mimetic and Theatrical Fallacies3

Matei Calinescu

Pluralism in Postmodern Perspective17

Teleology in Postmodern Fiction41

Mihály Szegedy-Maszák

Allegory, Hermeneutics, and Postmodernism59

Postmodern Italy: Notes on the “Crisis of Reason”, “Weak Thought”, and The Name of the Rose79

II. Analytical Criticism93

New Nouns for Old: “Language” Poetry, Language Game, and the Pleasure of the Text95

Marjorie Perloff

Samuel Beckett and the Postmodernism Controversy109

The Intrusive Author in Bristish Postmodernist Fiction: The Cases of Alasdair Gray and Martin Amis123

Postmodern Characterization and the Intrusion of Language139

Popular Genre Conventions in Postmodern Fiction: The Case of the Western161

Reading One/Self: Samuel Beckett. Thomas Bernhard, Peter Handke, John Barth, Alain Robbe-Grillet175

Michel Leiris’ Autobiography La Règle du jeu and Postmodernism199

Olav Severijnen

Narrative Discourse in Postmodernist Texts: The Conventions of the Novel and the Multiplication of Narrative Instances215

Concluding Observations: Is There a Future for Research on Postmodernism?233

Douwe W. Fokkema

Notes on the Contributors243

References247

Index263