A Poetics of Postmodernism : History, Theory, Fiction Condition:Good an exercise in visionary cartography

an exercise in visionary cartography

And when Alex meets the enigmatic and alluring Naoko

no-nonsense person she projected to the world

he aims to persuade you that we are all

from the playing field to the battlefield

A Poetics of Postmodernism : History, Theory, Fiction Condition:Good an exercise in visionary cartographyA Poetics of Postmodernism is neither a defense nor a denunciation of the postmodern. It continues the project of Linda Hutcheon's Narcissistic Narrative and A Theory of Parody in studying formal self consciousness in art, but adds to this both an historical and an ideological dimension. Modelled on postmodern architecture, postmodernism is the name given here to current cultural practices characterized by major paradoxes of form and of ideology. The