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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820028803321

Autore

Hutcheon Linda <1947-, >

Titolo

The politics of postmodernism / / Linda Hutcheon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2002

ISBN

1-134-46518-1

0-203-44580-5

1-134-46519-X

1-280-07453-1

0-203-42605-3

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Collana

New accents

Disciplina

809.3/9113

Soggetti

Fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Postmodernism

Literature and photography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 1989 by Routledge.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; General editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Representing the postmodern; Postmodernist representation; Re-presenting the past; The politics of parody; Text/image border tensions; Postmodernism and feminisms; Epilogue: the postmodern  in retrospect; Concluding note: some directed reading; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Working through the issue of representation, in art forms from fiction to photography, Linda Hutcheon sets out postmodernism's highly political challenge to the dominant ideologies of the western world.