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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

Table of contents

Prefacev
I. General Problems1
Introductory Remarks: Postmodernism, the Mimetic and Theatrical Fallacies3
Pluralism in Postmodern Perspective17
Teleology in Postmodern Fiction41
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
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
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
Notes on the Contributors243
References247
Index263


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