EXPLORING POSTMODERNISM -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Preface -- Table of contents -- General Problems -- 1. Introductory Remarks: Postmodernism, the Mimetic and Theatrical Fallacies -- REFERENCES -- 2. Pluralism in Postmodern Perspective -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 3. Teleology in Postmodern Fiction -- REFERENCE -- 4. Allegory, Hermeneutics, and Postmodernism -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 5. Postmodern Italy: Notes on the "Crisis of Reason", "Weak Thought," and The Name of the Rose -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE -- Analytical Criticism -- 6. New Nouns for Old: "Language" Poetry, Language Game, and the Pleasure of the Text -- REFERENCES -- 7. Samuel Beckettand the Postmodernism Controversy -- REFERENCES -- 8. The Intrusive Author in British Postmodernist Fiction: The Cases of Alasdair Gray and Martin Amis -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- 9. Postmodern Characterization and the Intrusion of Language -- REFERENCES -- 10. Popular Genre Conventions in Postmodern Fiction: The Case of the Western -- REFERENCES -- 11. Reading One/SelfSamuel Beckett, Thomas Bernhard, Peter Handke,John Barth, Alain Robbe-Grillet -- 1. Crisis Situation in Art and Life -- 2. Reading as the Basis of Writing -- or, The Dialogic Imagination -- 3. The Paradox of Narrative Refiguration -- REFERENCES -- MichelLeiris'Autobiography La Règle du jeu and Postmodernism -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Permutation -- 3. Correction -- 4. Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 13. Narrative Discourse in Postmodernist Texts:The Conventions of the Novel and the Multiplicationof Narrative Instances -- The extradiegetic level -- The intra- and hypodiegetic levels -- The confounding of narrative levels -- REFERENCES -- Concluding Observations: Is There a Future for Research on Postmodernism? -- REFERENCES -- Notes onthe Contributors -- References -- Index.