...Joseph Conte Works cited Bloom Harold . 1997 . The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry . 2nd ed. Oxford : Oxford University Press . Gladstone Jason Worden Daniel . 2011 . “ Introduction: Postmodernism, Then .” Twentieth-Century Literature 57 , nos. 3–4...

...David H. Evans On Endings: American Postmodern Fiction and the Cold War Novels of Exile and Alternate Worlds , by Grausam Daniel , Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press , 2011 . 196 pages. 2012 David H. Evans Is Postmodern Fiction da Bomb? On Endings: American...

...Avram Alpert This essay considers the postmodern engagement with Buddhism as a philosophy and a practice through the lens of Severo Sarduy’s Cobra (1972). It argues that a closer alignment of contemporary Buddhist studies with literary criticism can help us to better understand both contemporary...

...Sean McCann Copyright © Hofstra University 2007 HI Training and Vision: Roth, DeLillo, Banks, Peck, and the Postmodern Aesthetics of Vocation Sean M cCann W hat is hastily called deconstruction as such is never a technical set o f discursive procedures, still...

...Steven Belletto Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion since 1960 , by Hungerford Amy , Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2010 . 224 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2012 Review Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion since 1960...

...Madhu Dubey 2011 Madhu Dubey Post-Postmodern Realism? Madhu Dubey In his 1989 manifesto for “the new social novel,”  Tom Wolfe com- plained that contemporary American novelists were failing to take on the pressing social issues of their time. Since the 1960s—in other words...

...Rey Chow 2011 Rey Chow On the Graphic in Postmodern Theoretical Writing Rey Chow This evictive state naturally corresponds to a plenitude of virtu- alities: it is an absence of meaning full of all the meanings. —Roland Barthes...

.... With a focus on Margherita Erdmann’s sexual practice, this revisionary reading of gender and female sexuality in Pynchon complicates previous criticism, which has largely condemned the heteromasculinity of high postmodernism and elided the power of female sexual agency in such texts. leather sexuality...

...Andrew Hoberek 2011 Postmodernism and Modernization Postmodernism and Modernization Andrew Hoberek In my book The Twilight of the Middle Class I argue that we should “read postmodernism dialectically, as the worldview not only of middle-class privilege but of the hollowness...

...Emilio Sauri 2011 Emilio Sauri Cognitive Mapping, Then and Now: Postmodernism, Indecision, and American Literary Globalism Emilio Sauri Mere belief is hostile to the whole idea of thinking. To wear cre- dulity as one’s badge of intellect...

...Min Hyoung Song Copyright © Hofstra University 2007 w The Children of 1965: Allegory, Postmodernism, and Jhumpa Lahiri’s T h e N am esake M in H young Song J h u m p a Lahiri was already a celebrated author w hen her first novel ap­ peared in print. H er short...

...Andrew Hoberek Copyright © Hofstra University 2007 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. m Introduction: After Postmodernism Andrew Hoberek T h e essays in this issue o f Twentieth-Century...

...Steven Wandler After the End of History: American Fiction in the 1990s , by Cohen Samuel , Iowa City : University of Iowa Press , 2009 . 237 pages. © 2015 by Hofstra University 2009 Steven Wandler What Was Postmodernism? After the End of History: American Fiction...

...Caren Irr 2011 Caren Irr Postmodernism in Reverse: American National Allegories and the 21st-Century Political Novel Caren Irr Since the 1980s, the conceptual twin—or, better, dialectical counter- part—of literary postmodernism has been the national allegory. As Fred- ric...

...Adam Kelly 2009 Beginning with Postmodernism Beginning with Postmodernism Adam Kelly In the epilogue to the 2002 reprint of her influential study The Politics of Postmodernism, Linda Hutcheon remarks that “the postmodern may well be a twentieth-century phenomenon, that is, a thing...

...Rachel Adams Copyright © Hofstra University 2007 The Ends of America, the Ends of Postmodernism Rachel Adams I f Los Angeles is the city that taught us how to be postm odern, might it also be the place where we begin to imagine w hat comes after? For well over...

...Hillary Chute 2011 Hillary Chute The Popularity of Postmodernism Hillary Chute The commonplaces about postmodernism are themselves burdensome commonplaces. They evacuate nuance and historical understanding, and to notice their performance in spheres both popular and academic...

...Jason Gladstone; Daniel Worden 2011 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Introduction: Postmodernism, Then Jason Gladstone and Daniel Worden From our contemporary vantage point, a case can certainly...

...Rachel Greenwald Smith 2011 Postmodernism and the Affective Turn Postmodernism and the Affective Turn Rachel Greenwald Smith Over the past decade a growing body of criticism has emerged out of the social sciences and media studies that suggests that affects are socially...

... postmodern relationship between the author and his or her characters. Such a newly envisioned dynamic has been understood as fiction’s response to the theoretical debate about the so-called death of the author and, more broadly, to the posthumanist discourse on the dissolution of the liberal-humanist subject...