A Poetics of Postmodernism : History, Theory, Fiction Condition:Good from intimate conversations with close

from intimate conversations with close friends to the imagined world of fictional characters—Lim reflects on the beauty of both the natural world and the world of faith

They live in a college town where Jack is Professor of Hitler Studies (and conceals the fact that he does not speak a word of German)

Asher's witty and personal essays tell the stories of the world's outstanding vintages and the people and places that produce them

his daughter-in-law

an exercise in visionary cartography

A Poetics of Postmodernism : History, Theory, Fiction Condition:Good from intimate conversations with closeA Poetics of Postmodernism is neither a defense nor a denunciation of the postmodern. It continues the project of Linda Hutcheon's Narcissistic Narrative and A Theory of Parody in studying formal self consciousness in art, but adds to this both an historical and an ideological dimension. Modelled on postmodern architecture, postmodernism is the name given here to current cultural practices characterized by major paradoxes of form and of ideology. The