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Historical Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and Theater: 16
Author(s): Fran Mason (Author)
- Publisher: Scarecrow Press
- Publication Date: 21 Feb. 2007
- Language: English
- Print length: 464 pages
- ISBN-10: 0810855984
- ISBN-13: 9780810855984
Book Description
The Historical Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and Theater examines the different areas of postmodernist literature and the variety of forms that have been produced. This is accomplished through a list of acronyms, a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and several hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries on individual postmodernist writers, the important postmodernist aesthetic practices, significant texts produced throughout the history of postmodernist writing, and important movements and ideas that have created a variety of literary approaches within the form. By placing these concerns within the historical, philosophical, and cultural contexts of postmodernism, this reference explores the frameworks within which postmodernist literature of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century operates.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Mason has written a handy and useful reference tool… Library Journal, 15 June 2007 Mason’s contribution to the field is extremely significant and should be acknowledged as such and this will be a very valuable entry point for students of postmodernist literature. Review Of Contemporary Fiction, Summer 2007 …essential reading…for any student of critic desiring to understand one of the major directions of contemporary literature. American Reference Books Annual, March 2008 On the whole, this dictionary will be very helpful both to the average reader and to the scholar in need of quick and reliable information on authors, works, and intertextual relationships among them. The material covered in this book is rich and wide-ranging, consolidating but not necessarily revising in essential ways our understanding of postmodernism. American Book Review, September 2008 Overall though, the bibliography is superbly researched, comprehensive, and an excellent resource for further study. The same can be said for the entire Dictionary, which will be a reasonably priced acquisition for any academic library. Reference Reviews Writers, movements, forms of writing and textual strategies, critical ideas, and texts are cited by Mason (U. of Winchester). He also includes scholars, journals, and cultural processes that he feels to be relevant to an understanding of postmodernist writings. He provides a chronology from 1939 to 2006, extensive cross-references, and a topically arranged bibliography, but no index. Reference and Research Book News, May 2007
About the Author
Fran Mason is a British scholar who lectures at the University of Winchester.
