Defining Literary Postmodernism for the Twenty-First Century
This book presents a definition of literary postmodernism, using detective and science fictions as a frame. Through an exploration of both prior theoretical approaches, and indicators through characteristics of postmodernist fiction, this book i
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Defining Literary Postmodernism for the Twenty-First Century
Matthias Stephan
Defining Literary Postmodernism for the Twenty-First Century
Matthias Stephan Aarhus University Aarhus C, Denmark
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For Maria Lønsgaard Randrup, min elskede, and Philippa and Tristan, who make it all worth it.
Acknowledgments
In a project that has taken more than a decade to complete, the sheer number of people that deserve gratitude and recognition is nearly boundless. I am eternally grateful to those who have helped, aided, supported, listened, critiqued, criticized, or in other ways influenced my project and life since 2002. In that process, a great many professors provided influence. I need to thank, in particular, Ray Fleming of Florida State University, who provided much advice and support as a friend and mentor, and Rob Rushing of the University of Illinois, who has been a rock of support through my PhD and in the years since; one couldn’t have asked for a better Chair. My project itself was a product of two courses I took in Postmodernism at the University of Illinois in my first year of residence, so I need to recognize Steven Davenport and the ever-insightful Nancy Blake. I have also been greatly aided by the many opportunities I have had to teach at the University level, both for the financial support and also, perhaps primarily, for all that I have learned b
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