This "if anything," says Huyssen, "is the postmodern condition in literature and the arts" (ix). With the borders down, it would seem that SF critics need no longer offer an "apologia" for their work, ...

The relationship of narrative forms to race, gender, and class/capitalism; cognitive cultural studies; studies of affect (particularly anger and empathy) in late capitalism; postmodern literature and ...

In addition to individual authors, subjects examined have included problematics of literary genres, boundaries between fictional and non-fictional texts, problematics of intertextuality, as well as ...

Robert Coover, who turned fairy tales, folk stories and other conventions of literature on their head in a career that made him one of the most noted writers in postmodern American letters ...