The Politics of Postmodernism

Working through the issue of representation, in art forms from fiction to photography, Linda Hutcheon sets out postmodernism's highly political challenge to the dominant ideologies of the western world.

Author: Linda Hutcheon
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 05/16/2002
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 7.12h x 5.74w x 0.67d
ISBN: 9780415280167

About the Author

Linda Hutcheon is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto. She has published extensively on postmodernism, parody and irony (including Irony's Edge: The Theory and Politics of Irony) and has recently done interdisciplinary work with Michael Hutcheon on opera and medicine (Opera: Desire, Disease and Death, and Bodily Charm: Living Opera).