Neither a defense nor a denunciation of the postmodern, it continues Hutcheon's previous projects in studying formal self-consciousness in art, but adds to this both a historical and ideological dimension
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Neither a defense nor a denunciation of the postmodern, it continues Hutcheon's previous projects in studying formal self-consciousness in art, but adds to this both a historical and ideological dimension
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Theorizing the postmodern: Toward a poeticsModelling the postmodern: Parody and politics -- Limiting the postmodern: The paradoxical aftermath of modernism -- Decentering the postmodern: The ex-centric -- Contextualizing the postmodern: Enunciation and the revenge of "parole" -- Historicizing the postmodern: The problematizing of history -- Historiographic metafiction: "The pastime of past time" -- Intertextuality, parody, and the discourses of history -- The problem of reference -- Subject in/of/to history and his story -- Discourse, power, ideology: Humanism and postmodernism -- Political double-talk -- Conclusion: A poetics or a problematics?