In the following essay, McLaren and Lankshear examine the impact of postmodernist literary thought on education and society.

In the following essay, Palmer defends his postulation that postmodernism is an aesthetic movement of limited duration, and that modernity indicates the era beginning with the Renaissance and continuing into the present.

In the following essay, Clark examines the viability of the short story in the age of postmodernist literature.)

In the following essay, which was first published in slightly different form in 1973, Graff identifies postmodernism as both visionary and apocalyptic, and asserts that despite claims to the contrary, postmodernism derives from Romantic and modernist literary theory.

In the following essay, Altieri finds that contemporary American poetry has to a significant extent divested itself from the stylistic and thematic traits of postmodern critical theory.

In the following omnibus review of several critical works on postmodernist literature, McHale finds similarities and differences among the conclusions drawn by Christine Brooke-Rose, Christopher Butler, Anne Jefferson, and Alan Wilde.

In the following essay, Alter presents an overview of postmodern fiction, including works by Cervantes, Borges, Flann O'Brien, Nabokov, and John Barth.

In the following essay, Johnston surveys the theories of several postmodernist literary critics, including Brian McHale, Frederic Jameson, Patricia Waugh, and Michel Foucault.

In the following essay, originally published in 1988, Chabot argues that postmodernism eshibits more continuity with traditional literary methods than most critics admit.

In the following essay, which was first published in 1986, Hassan discusses the historical aspects of postmodernism, concluding that the postmodern approach is the most appropriate to depict the wide-ranging aspects of human life in the twentieth-century.

In the following essay, Hirsch defends New Criticism practices against what he perceives as the failed philosophical underpinnings of postmodern criticism.

In the following essay, Fischer-Lichte distinguishes between Modernism and Postmodernism in the theater.

In the following essay, Russell surveys the fiction of several contemporary American authors, including Thomas Pynchon, to convey his belief that postmodernism reflects the ambiguity and self-consciousness of life in the latter half of the twentieth-century.

In the following essay, Federman proposes that surfiction is the only contemporary literature that revels in humankind's intellect, imagination, and irrationality because it recognizes life itself as fiction.

In the following essay, Davidson examines some defining characteristics of postmodernism that have appeared in American poetry and art.