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Hutcheon, Linda, (1947-)         A poetics of postmodernism : history, theory, fiction / Linda Hutcheon. . – New York : Routledge, 1988.         xiii, 268 p. ; 25 cm.         Includes index.         PART I 1 Theorizing the postmodern: toward a poetics 2 Modelling the postmodern: parody and politics 3 Limiting the postmodern: the paradoxical aftermath of modernism 4 Decentering the postmodern: the ex-centric 5 Contextualizing the postmodern: enunciation and the revenge of "parole" 6 Historicizing the postmodern: the problematizing of history PART II 7 Historiographic metafiction: "the pastime of past time" 8 Intertextuality, parody, and the discourses of history 9 The problem of reference 10 Subject in/of/to history and his story 11 Discourse, power, ideology: humanism and postmodernism 12 Political double-talk 13 Conclusion: a poetics or a problematics? / Linda Hutcheon (University of Toronto University of Toronto, Canada)         ISBN9780415007061 (paper) : £ 29.99         ISBN9780203358856 (eBook) :         1. Fiction – History and criticism – Theory, etc. – 20th century         1. Postmodernism (Literature)