Postmodernism in American Literature: A Critical Anthology

20th century aesthetic Alain Robbe-Grillet alienation American fiction artistic avant-garde Barthelme Barthelme's Beckett become Begriff bourgeois Burroughs characters concept consciousness contemporary context create creative criticism culture defined discourse Donald Barthelme element Eliot ernism essay experience fact Federman Fiedler Heissenbüttel human idea ideology Ihab Hassan Imagination individual innovative intellectual interpretation invention Jahre John Barth John Cage Joyce kind Konkreten Kunst language literary Mailer Marcuse McLuhan meaning metafictional metaphor mind Modern Literature Modernism and Postmodernism Modernismus modernist moral myth neuen novel novelist poetry postmodern literature postmodernist Pynchon radical rational Raymond Federman reader realism reality Reduktion Regression Robbe-Grillet romantic Ronald Sukenick Samuel Beckett Sartre seems self-consciousness sense Sinne social society story structure Surfiction Susan Sontag T. S. Eliot theory things Thomas Pynchon tion tradition truth ture vision William Burroughs words writers York