The Postmodern Challenge: Perspectives East and West.

Amsterdam-Atlanta, Rodopi. 1999. Original publisher's sewn paperback, pictorial frontcover, 8vo: 328pp., [8]pp. ads, introduction, 15 contributions, footnotes/references, list of contributors. CONTENTS: Preface. Bo Strath & Nina Witoszek: Introduction. Part 1: Postmodernity East and West.. 1. Hayden White: Postmodernism and Textual Anxieties. 2. Stjepan Mestrovic: Will Bosnia Survive Postmodernism? 3. Detlef Briesen: The Postmodern Challenge: A Constant Factor of German History in the Last Two Centuries. 4. Wojciech Skalmowski: Literary Deconstruction as a ""Newspeak"". 5. Peter Burke: Civilization, Discipline, Disorder: Three Case Studies in History and Social Theory. 6. Nina Witoszek: The Fetish of Dialogue in Postmodern Discourse: The Case of Mikhail Bakhtin. 7. Piotr Kawieci: Heroism and Intimacy of Post-modern Morality. Part 2: Studying communities. 8. Svetlana Boym: Nostalgic Memorials and Postmodern Survival in Russia. 9. Axel Körner: The Construction of Bourgeois Identity in National and in Urban Context: Bologna after Italian Unification. 10. Krzysztof Stala: Inventing the Wheel? The Postmodern Catching up with Witold Gombrowicz. 11. Egon Pelikan & Heidemarie Uhl: Culture, Identity and Politics: Cultural Aspects of National Politics in Graz and Ljubljana at the End of the Nineteenth Century. 12. Wislawa Suraska: Mikhail Gorbachev as a postmodern hero. Part 3: Postmodern historiography reconsidered. 13. Ewa Domanska: After Postmodernism, a Dream of Transformation. 14. Georg Iggers: Historiography and the Challenge of Postmodernism. 15. Björn Wittrock: History, Theory, and Transitions of Modernity. Very fine copy - as new. As new. Volume 27: Postmodern Studies.