Historical Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and Theater

di Fran Mason (Autore)

Rowman & Littlefield, 2016

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.

• Autore: Fran Mason
• Editore: Rowman & Littlefield
• Collana: Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
• Anno: 2016
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 586 p.
• Dimensioni: 236 x 160 mm
• Peso: 1043 gr.
• EAN: 9781442276192

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