Bibliography Postmodernism Anthologies and introductions

Acheson, James (ed.). The British and Irish Novel Since 1960. Houndmills: Macmillan, 1991. HN 1295 LD 5580 (articles on Barnes, Carter, Lodge and Swift)

Childs, Peter. Contemporary Novelists. British Fiction since 1970. Houndmills: Palgrave, 2005. 45/HN 1295 LI 27311 (articles on Amis, Barnes, Carter, Swift)

Connor, Steven (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism. Cambridge: CUP, 2004. 41/HC 5194 LI 26935

Head, Dominic (ed.). The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction, 1950-2000. Cambridge: CUP, 2002. 41/HN 1295 LI 20984

Janik, Del Ivan. “No End of History: Evidence from the Contemporary English Novel,” Twentieth Century Literature 41.2 (1995), Questia, 7 Feb 2006 <http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5001655173>.

Leitch, Vincent B. et al (eds.). The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. New York and London: W. W. Norton, 2001. 45/EC 1465 LI 20154

Malpas, Simon. The Postmodern. Routlegde The New Critical Idiom. London: Routledge, 2005. 41/EC 5194 LI 27760

Bran, Nicol (ed.). Postmodernism and the Contemporary Novel. A Reader. Edinburgh: EUP2002. 45/EC 6667 LI 26573

Rennison, Nick. Contemporary British Novelists. Abingdon: Routledge, 2005. 45/HN 1295 LI 27761

Sim, Stuart (ed.). The Routledge Critical Dictionary of Postmodern Thought. New York: Routledge, 1999. 20/IC 12455

Woods, Tim. Beginning Postmodernism. Manchester and New York: MUP, 1999. 41/EC 5184 LI 23291


Key texts

Assman, Jan. Das kulturelle Gedächtnis. Schrift, Erinnerung und politische Identität in frühen Hochkulturen. München: Beck, 1992. 40/ER 751 LD 9671(99)

Baudrillard, Jean. 1981. “The Precession of Simulacra.” In: Baudrillard, Jean. Simulacra and Simulation. Trans. Sheila Faria Glaser. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994. 40/IH 14900 LF 9264

Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble.Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. London: Routledge, 1990. 40/IH 54211 LF 5603 (dt.)

Derrida, Jacques. 1976. Of Grammatology. Trans. Gayatri Spivak. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1998.

Eagleton, Terry. The Illusions of Postmodernism. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996. 40/EC 1740 LG 3374

Eco, U., Postscript to The Name of the Rose, New York: Harcourt, 1984.

Foucault, Michel. 1978. “The Repressive Hypothesis.” In: The History of Sexuality: An Introduction. Vol. 1. London: Penguin, 1984, 1-49.

Foucault, Michel. 1969. “What is an Author?” In: Davis, Robert Con and Schleifer, Ronald (eds.). Contemporary Literary Criticism. Literary and Cultural Studies. 4th ed. New York: Longman, 1998. 342-353. 41/EC 1720 FP 8735(4)

Harvey, David. The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change. Oxford: Blackwell, 1989. 50/NW 1950 DY 1339

Hutcheon, Linda. A Poetics of Postmodernism. New York: Routledge, 1988.

Hutcheon, Linda. The Politics of Postmodernism. New York: Routledge, 1989.

Jameson, Fredric. Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Durham: Duke University Press, 1991. 45/EC 2400 LD 7031

Jencks, Charles. “Postmodernism Defined” (1986). In: Nicol, 113-120. 45/EC 6667 LI 26573

Kristeva, Julia. 1968. “Semiotics: A Critical Science and/or a Critique of Science.” In: Davis, Robert Con and Schleifer, Ronald (eds.). Contemporary Literary Criticism. Literary and Cultural Studies. 4th ed. New York: Longman, 1998. 273-282. 41/EC 1720 FP 8735(4)

Lyotard, Jean-Francois. 1979. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. Minnealpolis: University of Minneapolis Press, 1993. 31/MS 6950 WU 8346

Said, Edward. Orientalism, New York: Vintage, 1979. 41/EC 5910 FA 8012

Sontag, Susan. “Against Interpretation.” In: Against Interpretation and Other Essays. New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1966, 4-14. 40/HU 8501 FB 3068 oder http://www.coldbacon.com/writing/sontag-againstinterpretation.html

White, Hayden. 1974. “The Historical Text as Literary Artefact.” In: NATC, 1709-1729.


David Lodge, Small World

Lodge, David. 1977. “Postmodernist Fiction.” In: Nicol, 250-277. 45/EC 6667 LI 26573

Ahrens, Rüdiger. “Satirical Norm and Narrative Technique in the Modern University Novel: David Lodge’s Changing Places and Small World.” In: Schwend, Joachim et al (eds.). Literatur im Kontext/Literature in Context. Scottish Studies 14. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1992, 277-95. 40/HD 140 LD 9001

Ammann, Daniel. David Lodge and the Art-and-reality Novel. Heidelberg: Winter, 1991. 40/HN 5646 LD 4844

Coelsch-Foisner, Sabine. “Sex-Maniacs, Errant Knights and Lady Professors: Romance and Satire in Lodge’s University Novels.” In: Coelsch-Foisner, Sabine et al (eds.). Trends in English and American Studies: Literature and the Imagination. Lewiston, NY: Mellen, 1996, 333-49. 40/HD 140 LH 1093

Galster, Christin. Literaturtheorie und Wissenschaftsbetrieb im britischen Universitätsroman. Campus Novels von David Lodge, Malcolm Bradbury und A. S. Byatt. Regensburg: Pustet. 1997. http://www.bibliothek.uni-regensburg.de/opus/volltexte/2001/19/pdf/RSL6.pdf

Holmes, Frederick M. “The Reader as Discoverer in David Lodge’s Small World.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 32:1 (1990), 47-57.

Kühn, Thomas. Two Cultures, Universities, and Intellectuals. Der Englische Universitätsroman der 70er und 80er Jahre im Kontext des Hochschuldiskurses. Tübingen: Narr, 2002.

Laing, Stuart. “The Three Small Worlds of David Lodge.” Critical Survey 3:3 (1991), 324-30.

Lambertsson Björk, Eva. Campus Clowns and the Canon. David Lodge’s Campus Fiction. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1993. 40/HN 5646 LF 5591

Louw, William. “Irony in the Text or Insincerity in the Writer? The Diagnostic Potential of Semantic Prosodies.” In: Sampson, Geoffrey and McCarthy, Diana (eds.). Corpus Linguistics: Readings in a Widening Discipline. London: Continuum, 2004, 229-41. 40/ES 965 LI 30009

Mews, Siegfried. “The Professor’s Novel: David Lodge’s Small World.” MLN 104:3 (1989), 713-26. 45/.ZP 6120-104,2

Morace, Robert A. The Dialogic Novels of Malcolm Bradbury and David Lodge. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1989. 40/HN 2295 LB 8920

Pfandl-Buchegger, Ingrid. David Lodge als Literaturkritiker, Theoretiker und Romanautor Heidelberg: Winter, 1993. 40/HN 9990 LF 4323

Showalter, Elaine. Faculty Towers. The Academic Bovel and its Discontents. Oxford: OUP, 2005.

Soler, Pascual and Nieves, Ma. “The Anxiety of Influence in the Academic Novel: A Trap for Fools and Small World.” Grove: Working Papers on English Studies 1 (1996), 131-46.

Wolf, Werner. „Literaturtheorie in der Literatur: David Lodges Small World als kritische Auseinandersetzung mit dem Dekonstruktivismus.” Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 14:1 (1989), 19-37. 45/.ZP 0657-12/14

Womack, Kenneth. “The Professoriate of Love: David Lodge’s Academic Trilogy and the Ethics of Romance.” In: Womack, Kenneth. Postwar Academic Fiction. Satire, Ethics, Community. Houndmills: Palgrave, 2002. 41/HN 1301 LI 26231
Peter Ackroyd, The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde

Fokkema, Aleid. “The Author: Postmodernism’s Stock Character. In: Franssen, Paul and Hoenselaars, Ton (eds.). The Author as Character: Representing Historical Writers in Western Literature. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1999, 39-51. 40/EC 2200 LI 21950

Fokkema, Aleid. “Abandoning the Postmodern? The Case of Peter Ackroyd.” In: D’haen, Theo and Bertens, Hans (eds.). British Postmodern Fiction. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1993, XX. 40/HN 1331 LE 9210

Höfele, Andreas. “The Writer on Stage: Some Contemporary British Plays about Authors.” In: Reitz, Bernhard and Zapf, Hubert (eds.). British Drama in the 1908s. New Perspectives. anglistik und englischunterricht 41 (1990), 79-91. 45/HN 1600 LD 2197

Maack, Annegret. „Der Roman als ‘Echokammer’: Peter Ackroyds Erzählstrategien” In: Foltinek, Herbert et al (eds.) Tales and „their telling difference”: Zur Theorie und Geschichte der Narrativik. Festschrift zum 70. Geburtstag von Franz K. Stanzel. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, 1999, 319-35. 40/HD 140 LE 6035

Maack, Annegret. „Das Leben der toten Dichter. Fiktive Biographien.” In: Maack, Annegret (ed.). Radikalität und Mäßigung. Der englische Roman seit 1960. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 1993, XX. 41/HN 1295 LE 4818 (verstellt)

Middeke, Martin. “Oscar, the Proto-Postmodern? Peter Ackroyd’s The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde.” In: Böker, Uwe et al (eds.). The Importance of Reinventing Oscar: Versions of Wilde during the Last 100 Years. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002, 207-17. 45/HL 4865 LI 21840

Middeke, Martin and Huber, Werner (eds.). Biofictions: The Rewriting of Romantic Lives in Contemporary Fiction and Drama. Rockester, NY: Camden House, 1999. 40/HN 1301 LH 7488

Schabert, Ina. In Quest of the Other Person: Fiction as Biography. Tübingen: Francke, 1990. 40/HG 725 LC 8236

Moran, Joe. “’Simple Words’: Peter Ackroyd’s Autobiography of Oscar Wilde.” Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 22:3 (1999), 356-69.

Nünning, Ansgar. Von historischer Fiktion zu historiographischer Metafiktion. Vol. 1: Theorie, Typologie und Poetik des historischen Romans. Trier: WVT, 1995. 45/HN 1301 LF 6764-1

Onega, Susana. Peter Ackroyd. Plymoth: Northcote House, 1998.

Onega, Susana. Metafiction and Myth in the Novels of Peter Ackroyd. Rockester, NY: Camden House, 1999.

Schabert, Ina. “Fictional Biography, Factual Biography, and Their Contaminations.” biography 5:1. 1992, 1-16.


Martin Amis, Time’s Arrow

Diedrick, James. Understanding Martin Amis. Columbia: U of South Carolina Press, 1995. 41/HN 1761 LG 1914

Harris, Greg. “Men Giving Birth to New World Orders: Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow.” Studies in the Novel 31:4 (1999), 489-505. 45/.ZP 9100-31

Henke, Christoph.”Remembering Selves, Constructing Selves: Memory and Identity in Contemporary British Fiction.” Journal for the Study of British Cultures 10:1 (2003), 77-100. 45/.ZP 4284-7/10

Menke, Richard. “Narrative Reversals and the Thermodynamics of History in Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow.” Modern Fiction Studies 44 (1998). pp. 959-980. 45/.ZP 5960-44

Mecklenburg, Susanne. Martin Amis und Graham Swift. Erfolg Durch Bodenlosen Moralismus im Zeitgenössischen Britischen Roman. Heidelberg: Winter, 2000. 40/HN 1761 LI 26386

Ryan, Kiernan. “Sex, Violence and Complicity: Martin Amis and Ian McEwan.” In: Mengham, Rod (ed.). An Introduction to Contemporary Fiction. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1999, 203-218.

Sauerberg, Lars Ole. Fact into Fiction. Documentary Realism in the Contemporary Novel. Basingstok: Macmillan, 1991. 40/HU 1819 LD 4290

Schoenbeck, Oliver. Their Versions of the Facts. Text und Fiktion in den Romanen von Iain Banks, Kazuo Ishiguro, Martin Amis und Jeanette Winterson. Trier: WVT, 2000. 40/HN 1331 LI 12156 (derzeit SA Dommer)

Stokes, Peter. “Martin Amis and the Postmodern Suicide: Tracing the Postnuclear Narrative at the Fin de Millenium.” Critique. Studies in Contemporary Fiction 38:4 (1997), 300-311. 45/.ZP 1760-37/38

Tredell, Nicolas (ed.). The Fiction of Martin Amis. Cambridge: Icon Books, 2000.


Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus

Armitt, Lucy. Contemporary Women’s Fiction and the Fantastic. Houndmills: Macmillan, 2000. 41/HN 1312 LH 9979

Benedikz, Margret. Storming the Sadeian Citadel. Disturbing Gender in Angela Carter’s Fiction of Transition. Diss. Stockholm: Dept. of English, Univ., 2002. 40/.XE 4151

Boehm, Berth A. “Feminist Metafiction and Androcentric Reading Strategies: Angela Carter’s Reconstructed Reader in Nights at the Circus.” Critique. Studies in Contemporary Fiction 37:1 (1995), 35-49. 45/.ZP 1760-37/38

Carroll, Rachel. “Return of the Century: Time, Modernity, and the End of History in Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus.” Yearbook of English Studies, 30. Time and Narrative (2000), 187-201. 45/.ZP 9730-30

Day, Aidan. Angela Carter. The Rational Glass. Manchester: MUP, 1998. 41/HN 2593 LI 11580

Easton, Alison. Angela Carter. Contemporary Critical Essays. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000. 40/HN 2593 LI 10376

Kendrick, Walter. “The Real Magic of Angela Carter.” In: Hosmer, Robert E. Jr. (ed.). Contemporary British Women Writers. Houndmills: Macmillan, 1993, 66-84. 45/HN 1301 LF 9514

Lee, Alison. Angela Carter. New York: Twayne, 1997. 41/HN 2593 LG 8076

Macperhson, Heidi Slettedahl. “Prison, Passion, and the Female Gaze: Twentieth-Century Representations of Nineteenth-Century Panopticons.” In: Fludernik, Monika (ed.). In the Grip of the Law. Trials, Prisons and the Space Between. Frankfurt a. M.: Lang, 2004, 205-21. 41/HG 435 LI 26621

Martinsson, Yvonne. Eroticism, Ethics and Reading. Angela Carter in Dialogue with Roland Barthes. Diss. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1996. 40/HN 2593 LG 6148

Morrison, Jago. Contemporary Fiction. London: Routledge, 2003.

Müller, Anja. Angela Carter. Identity Constructed, Deconstructed. Heidelberg: Winter, 1997. 40/HN 2593 LI 29467

Peach, Linden. Angela Carter. Macmillan Modern Novelists. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998. 40/HN 2593 LH 4398

Sage, Lorna. Flesh and the Mirror. Essays on the Art of Angela Carter. London:Virago Press, 1994. 40/HN 2593 LF 2554

Sage, Lorna. Angela Carter. Plymouth: Northcote House, 1994. 45/HN 9990 LF 1704


Julian Barnes, Flaubert’s Parrot

Antor, Heinz. „(Post-)Moderne Historiographie und Biographie im englischen Roman des 20. Jahrhunderts: Virginia Woolf und Julian Barnes.” In: Ahrens, Rüdiger and Neumann, Fritz-Wilhelm (eds.). Fiktion und Geschichte in der anglo-amerikanischen Literatur. Anglistische Forschungen. 256. Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1998, 415-30. 40/HD 140 LH 1639

Brooks, Neil. “Interred Textuality: The Good Soldier and Flaubert’s Parrot.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 41:1 (1999), 45-51.

Cox, Emma. “‘Abstain, and Hide Your Life’: The Hidden Narrator of Flaubert’s Parrot.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 46:1 (2004), 53-62. 45/ZP 1760

Higdon, David Leon. “‘Unconfessed Confessions:’ The Narrators of Graham Swift and Julian Barnes.” In: Acheson, James (ed.). The British and Irish Novel since 1960. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1991, 174-191. 45/HN 1295 LD 5580

Kotte, Christina. Ethical Dimensions in British Historiographic Metafiction. Julian Barnes, Graham Swift, Penelope Lively. Trier: WVT, 2001. 40/HN 1295 LI 16687

Moseley, Merritt. “Julian Barnes’s Flaubert’s Parrott.” In: Shaffer, Brian W. (ed.). A Companion to the British and Irish Novel, 1945-2000. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture 28. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005, 481-92. 45/HN 1295 LI 28409

Moseley, Merritt. Understanding Julian Barnes. Columbia: Univ. of South Carolina Press, 1997. 41/HN 1887 LG 8173

Reckwitz, Erhard. “Intertextualität postmodern: J.M. Coetzee, Foe; John Fowles, A Maggot; Julian Barnes, Flaubert’s Parrot.” In: Bering, Kinibert und Hohmann, W. L. (eds.). Wie postmodern ist die Postmoderne? Essen: Die Blaue Eule, 1990, 121-156. 20/CI 1100 IA 3090

Scott, James B. “Parrot as Paradigms: Infinite Deferral of Meaning in Flaubert’s Parrot.” Ariel 21 (1990), 57-68. 45/.ZP 0800-21

Sesto, Bruce. Language, History and Metanarrative in the Fiction of Julian Barnes. New York: Lang, 2001. 40/HN 1887 LI 19260


A. S. Byatt, The Biographer’s Tale

Kelly, Kathleen Coyne. A. S. Byatt. New York: Twayne, 1996. 41/HN 2571 LG 5100

Todd, Richard. A. S. Byatt. Plymouth: Northcote, 1997. 41/HN 2571 LH 5500

Tönnies, Merle. “A New Self-Conscious Turn at the Turn of the Century? Postmodernist Metafiction in Recent Works by’Established’ British Writers.” Anglistik und Englischunterricht 66 (2005), 57-82. (Reihe nur bis 2003 vorhanden)

Nünning, Ansgar. “Fictional Metabiographies and Metaautobiographies: Towards a Definition, Typology and Analysis of Self-Reflexive Hybrid Metagenres.” In: Huber, Werner et al (eds.). Self-Reflexivity in Literature. Text & Theorie 6. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2005, 195-209. (noch nicht vorhanden)

O’Connor, Erin. “Reading The Biographer’s Tale” Victorian Studies 44:3 (2002), 379-87. 45/.ZP 9420-44 oder http://emedia.uni-bamberg.de/han/7346/www.ingentaconnect.com/content/iup/vs/2002/00000044/00000003/art00001

Sorensen, Sue. “Something of the Eternal: A.S. Byatt and Vincent Van Gogh.” Mosaic. 37:1 (2004), Questia, 7 Feb 2006 <http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5002649583>.