Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Preliminary remarks 1
5. The postmodern Weltanschauung and its relation with modernism 9
6. Change of dominant from modernist to postmodernist writing 53
7. The semantic and syntactic organization of postmodernist texts 81
8. The presence of postmodernism in British fiction 99
9. From hypothesis to Korrektur 119
10. Duplication and multiplication 135
11. Postmodernism in Russian drama 157
12. The absurd and its forms of reduction in postmodern American fiction 185
13. Postmodernism in Americam fiction and art 211
14. Modernism cut in half 233
15. Postmodernism and some paradoxes of periodization 239
16. Naming and difference 255
17. Note on the contributors 271
18. References 275
19. Index 291