Postmodern Fiction

This bookshelf collects articles on authors and works (mostly British and American) that have been variously labelled 'postmodern'; it also provides contextual information by including articles on high-profile literary and critical theorists whose views have influenced the conceptual field of 'postmodernism', as well as relevant topics entries.

Articles Year
Ackroyd, Peter. Hawksmoor 1985
Peter Ackroyd 1971 -
Martin Amis 1973 -
Amis, Martin. Time's Arrow 1991
Atwood, Margaret. Alias Grace 1996
Margaret Atwood 1966 -
Atwood, Margaret. The Blind Assassin 2000
Atwood, Margaret. The Edible Woman 1969
Auster, Paul. New York Trilogy 1987
Mikhail Bakhtin 1915 - 1975
Barnes, Julian. A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters 1989
Barnes, Julian. Flaubert's Parrot 1984
Julian Barnes 1984 -
Donald Barthelme 1964 - 1989
Barthes, Roland. Le Plaisir du texte 1973
Roland Barthes 1935 - 1980
John Barth 1956 -
Jean Baudrillard 1966 - 2007
Roberto Bolaño Ávalos 1976 - 2003
Richard Brautigan 1955 - 1984
William Burroughs 1953 - 1996
Italo Calvino 1945 - 1985
Carnival, Carnivalesque, Carnivalisation
Mircea Cărtărescu 1978 -
Cărtărescu, Mircea. Orbitor, vol. 1 1996
Angela Carter 1966 - 1992
Carter, Angela Olive. Nights at the Circus 1984
Carter, Angela Olive. The Magic Toyshop 1967
Carter, Angela Olive. Wise Children 1991
Robert Coover 1961 -
Coover, Robert. The Public Burning 1977
Deconstruction 1966
Don DeLillo 1960 -
DeLillo, Don. White Noise 1985
Jacques Derrida 1960 - 2004
E. L. Doctorow 1960 - 2015
Umberto Eco 1952 - 2016
Michel Foucault 1954 - 1984
John Fowles 1966 - 2005
Fowles, John. The French Lieutenant's Woman 1969
William Gaddis 1942 - 1998
Historiographic Metafiction (USA) 1960
Intertextuality 1960
Jacques Lacan 1936 - 1981
Lessing, Doris May. The Golden Notebook 1962
Logocentrism 1968
Magic Realism, Magical Realism 1960
Metafiction 1960
Mitchell, David. Cloud Atlas 2004
Ondaatje, Michael. Coming through Slaughter 1976
Ondaatje, Michael. In the Skin of a Lion 1987
Pamuk, Orhan. Benim Adim Kirmizi 1998
Orhan Pamuk 1972 -
Postmodernism 1950 - 2005
Pynchon, Thomas. Gravity's Rainbow 1973
Thomas Pynchon 1957 -
Ishmael Reed 1960 -
Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's Children 1981
Salman Rushdie 1975 -
Rushdie, Salman. The Satanic Verses 1988
Russian Postmodernism 1960
Süskind, Patrick. Das Parfüm. Die Geschichte eines Mörders 1985
Patrick Süskind 1981 -
Patrick Süskind 1981 -
Swift, Graham. Waterland 1983
Thomas, D. M.. The White Hotel 1981
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 1961 - 2007
Jeanette Winterson 1985 -
Winterson, Jeanette. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit 1985
Winterson, Jeanette. The Passion 1987
Article Groups
Metafictional Writing
Postmodernist American Fiction
Metafictional Writing

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