Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Theorizing the postmodern: toward a poetics -- Modelling the postmodern: parody and politics -- Limiting the postmodern: the paradoxical aftermath of modernism -- Decentering the postmodern: the ex-centric -- Contextualizing the postmodern: enunciation and the revengeof ~parole~ -- Historicizing the postmodern: the problematizing of history -- Historiographic metafiction: ~the pastime of past time~ -- Intertextuality, parody, and the discourses of history -- The problem of reference -- Subject in/of/to history and his story -- Discourse, power, ideology: humanism and postmodernism -- Political double-talk -- Conclusion: a poetics or a problematics? -- Bibliography -- Index.