Postmodernism and the Fin de Siecle

edited by Gerhard Hoffmann and Alfred Hornung

Book cover: Postmodernism and the Fin de Siecle

Extent: 291 pages

Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter

Subjects: American Studies, Literary Studies

Series: American Studies - A Monograph Series

Series volume number: 81

Language: English

(Hardback) (Published)

(January 2001)

ISBN: 9783825310448

5.28 x 8.27 inches

Price: $60.00

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This volume, the fourth in a series of publications concerned with the analysis of postmodern American culture, takes up the issue of postmodernism, its functions and meanings, at the threshold to a new century and millennium. Critics from Europe and the United States, all of them specialists in postmodern criticism, examine various approaches to the emotionally charged fin-de-siecle and millennial sentiments from the perspectives of various disciplines such as literary and cultural criticism, history, feminism, religious studies, philosophy, sociology, and theater- and media sciences. The articles represent the broad spectrum of postmodern strategies of suvival in the confrontation with millennarian anxieties, fears, and panic.

  • Edited by Gerhard Hoffmann
  • Edited by Alfred Hornung