TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- FROM THE POSTMODERN TO THE PRE-MODERN -- PERFORMING CULTURAL ALTERITY -- "WHAT AM I DOING HERE" -- NATIONAL PAST / PERSONAL PAST -- TOWARDS A POLYTHETIC DEFINITION OF THE BILDUNGSROMAN -- SUBJECTIVITY IN A.L. KENNEDY'S WRITING -- LITERARY CULTURE IN THE AGE OF THE INTERNET -- A SELF-REFLEXIVE RENEWAL OF REALISM -- (DE)CONSTRUCTION OF THE POSTMODERN IN A.S.BYATT'S NOVEL POSSESSION -- THE OLD AND THE NEW -- INTERTEXTUALITY IN THEORY AND PRACTICE -- READING POSTMODERN NARRATIVE -- THE ECOCRITICAL AND THE POSTMODERN -- COMPARING MYTHOLOGIES -- TRANSTEXTUAL BRIDGE BETWEEN THE POSTMODERN AND THE MODERN -- CONTRIBUTORS.