none 10.1075/chlel.xi.07wel John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 1757 67879915 1419333 1419323 202507021854000014 10.1075 2025-07-02T16:53:05Z 2014-03-24T08:38:57Z 5 0238-0668 10.1075/chlel https://benjamins.com/ catalog/chlel Hans Bertens University of Utrecht https://ror.org/04pp8hn57 Douwe W. Fokkema University of Utrecht https://ror.org/04pp8hn57 Theory and literary practice Containing more than fifty essays by major literary scholars, International Postmodernism divides into four main sections. The volume starts off with a section of eight introductory studies dealing with the subject from different points of view followed by a section that deals with postmodernism in other arts than literature, while a third section discusses renovations of narrative genres and other strategies and devices in postmodernist writing. The final and fourth section deals with the reception and processing of postmodernism in different parts of the world. Three important aspects add to the special character of International Postmodernism: The consistent distinction between postmodernity and postmodernism; equal attention to the making and diffusion of postmodernism and the workings of literature in general; and the focus on the text and the reader (i.e., the reader's knowledge, experience, interests, and competence) as crucial factors in text interpretation. This comprehensive study does not expressly focus on American postmodernism, although American interpretations of postmodernism are a major point of reference. The recognition that varying literary and cultural conditions in this world are bound to produce endless varieties of postmodernism made the editors, Hans Bertens and Douwe Fokkema, opt for the title International Postmodernism. XI 2 20 1997 10 21 2008 9789027234438 9781556196027 9789027234452 9781556196041 9789027299710 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam 10.1075/chlel.xi http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027299710 https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/chlel.xi/html https://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/9789027299710.pdf Wolfgang Welsch Mike Sandbothe 2 20 1997 10 21 2008 75 87 10.1075/chlel.xi.07wel https://benjamins.com/catalog/chlel.11.07wel https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/chlel.xi.07wel/html