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THE IDEA OF THE POSTMODERN
The question of what postmodernism actually means is not an easy one
to answer: it has meant different things to different people at different
times, rising from humble literary-critical origins in the 1950s to a level
of global conceptualization in the 1980s. How does the student
approaching the subject for the first time distinguish between the
various conceptual levels at which the terms ‘postmodern’ and
‘postmodernism’ have been employed, or between the diverse
interpretations of the postmodern that—sometimes consecutively and at
other times simultaneously—have been put forward over the past thirty
years?
In
The Idea of the Postmodern,
Hans Bertens clears up the confusion
by tracing and analyzing the debate in an accessible way and witty
style. He sets out the interdisciplinary aspects, the critical debates, and
the key theorists of postmodernism, and discusses the relationship
between postmodernism and poststructuralism, and postmodernism and
modernism.
The Idea of the Postmodern
is an enjoyable and indispensable
introductory text for today’s students.
Hans Bertens
is Professor and Director of American Studies at the
University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. He has written extensively on
the subjects of postwar fiction, popular literature, mass culture, and
postmodern theory.
THE IDEA OF THE
POSTMODERN
A history
Hans Bertens
London and New York
First published 1995
by Routledge
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005.
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© 1995 Hans Bertens
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ISBN 0-203-35932-1 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN 0-203-37188-7 (Adobe eReader Format)
ISBN 0-415-06011-7 (hbk)
ISBN 0-415-06012-5 (pbk)
For Laura, Redmer, and Roland
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