Postmodernism
Subtitle: The Key Figures
Contributors: Johannes Willem Bertens (Editor); Joseph P. Natoli (Editor)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
Published: March 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780631217961
Subjects: Postmodernism; Reference works; General; History & Surveys - General; History & Surveys - Modern; Philosophy; Sociology
First sentence: In "(Post)Modern Polemics," after commenting on the great variety of points of view held by the critics attempting to characterize the postmodern, Hal Foster (1984: 67-79) suggest that in the field of literature the word "post-modernism" is an umbrella term, used to cover two main, widely divergent modes.