Historical Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and Theater

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  • ISBN 9781442276192
  • Weight: 1043g
  • Dimensions: 160 x 236mm
  • Publication Date: 12 Dec 2016
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Hardback
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The main aim of the book has been to include writers, movements, forms of writing and textual strategies, critical ideas, and texts that are significant in relation to postmodernist literature. In addition, important scholars, journals, and cultural processes have been included where these are felt to be relevant to an understanding of postmodernist writing.

This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and Theater contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries on postmodernist writers, the important postmodernist aesthetic practices, significant texts produced throughout the history of postmodernist writing, and important movements and ideas that have created a variety of literary approaches within the form. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the postmodernist literature and theater.

Fran Mason is a lecturer at the University of Winchester where he teaches Film Studies and American Literature, within which areas he teaches a range of courses including those relating to postmodernism, crime fiction and film, science-fiction, cyberculture and contemporary writing.

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