Postmodernism The Key Figures [Paperback]

Featuring summaries of postmodernism's greatest literary, cultural, and political champions written by a diverse group of scholars, Postmodernism: The Key Figures captures the dominance of a theoretical paradigm that has done nothing less than re-define the very terms of our knowledge and experience.

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• Features summaries of postmodernism's key figures, written by a diverse group of scholars.
  
• Highlights over fifty of postmodernism's greatest literary, cultural and political champions.
  
• Includes an extensive bibliography of resources in postmodernism.

List of Contributors.

Introduction. Hans Bertens and Joseph Natoli.

1. Peter Ackroyd. Susana Onega.

2. Louis Althusser. Richard D. Wolff.

3. John Ashbery. Steven Monte.

4. Paul Auster. Madeleine Sorapure.

5. Mikhail Bakhtin. Galin Tihanov.

6. John Barth. Theo D'haen.

7. Roland Barthes. David Herman.

8. Georges Bataille. Jean-François Fourny.

9. Jean Baudrillard. Douglas Kellner.

10. Jorge Luis Borges. Evelyn Fishburn.

11. John Cage. Nancy Perloff.

12. Italo Calvino. Rocco Capozzi.

13. Angela Carter. Joanne Gass.

14. Ping Chong. Philip Auslander.

15. Ethan and Joel Cohen. Joseph Natoli.

16. Robert Coover. Robert L. McLaughlin.

17. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. Ronald Bogue.

18. Don DeLillo. Christopher Douglas.

19. Jacques Derrida. Hugh J. Silverman.

20. Marguerite Duras. Martine Antle.

21. Umberto Eco. lƒŒ