Postmodern fiction in Europe and the Americas /

This volume gathers a representative selection of articles trying both to define, and to reflect upon, the phenomenon of "Postmodernism" in a number of national literatures.(ed.)Introduction / Theo D'haen, Hans Bertens; Some Postmodernist Stories / Brian McHale; Narrative and Postmodernity in France / A. Kibedi Varga; Antinomies of Nominalism: Postmodernism in Norwegian Fiction of the 1980s / Arild Linneberg, Geir Mork; Metafictional Structures in Slavic Literatures: Towards an Archeology of Metafiction / Wladimir Krysinski; On the (Mis-)Uses of the Post-Modern: Hispanic Modernism Revisited / Iris M. Zavala; Confrontation within Convention: On the Character of British Postmodernist Fiction / Richard Todd; Postmodernist Fiction in Canada / Geert Lernout; Postmodern Elements in Postwar Dutch Fiction / Anthony Mertens; La Giovane Narrativa: Emerging Italian Novelists in the Eighties / Stefano Tani; Postmodernism in Latin America / Julio Ortega;This volume gathers a representative selection of articles trying both to define, and to reflect upon, the phenomenon of "Postmodernism" in a number of national literatures.(ed.