A Poetics of Postmodernism : History, Theory, Fiction Condition:Good from the playing field to

from the playing field to the battlefield

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)

It’s only a minute until the train moves on

an exercise in visionary cartography

no-nonsense person she projected to the world

A Poetics of Postmodernism : History, Theory, Fiction Condition:Good from the playing field toA 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