*Sorry, but I'm afraid that critics will have to empty clip after clip of rounds into the carcass of the thing and it's still gonna squirm. *Entertaining reading ...

Self-consciousness, self-reflexivity [1] and metafiction are terms often used to describe a particular characteristic common to postmodern fiction. Robert Alter has defined the “self-conscious novel” ...

AVANT-POP? IS THAT LIKE A NEW SOFT DRINK OR WHAT? JUST WHEN YOU thought you'd figured out postmodernism or "po mo" to the "po mos," there's a new and noisy, gen-x kid on the block. It's "avant-pop," a ...

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Twenty first century has gone great lengths in dismantling the long-established cultural norms of the world and is therefore much relevant to the postcolonialism and postmodernism because these two ...

Two fascinating new novels are not particularly difficult, but their relationship to established traditions of experimental literature is clear. Short-circuiting the language of literary value, ...