Contributors to this volume propose to explore new openings and recent developments in anglophone literatures and cultural theories which engage with issues seen to be central in the construction of a postmodern paradigm, but deal with them in ways that promise new openings or a new Zeitgeist.

The Persistence of the Modernist Heritage Peter V. Zima, Why the Postmodern Age Will Last? · Philip Tew, A New Sense of Reality? A New Sense of the Text? ExploringMeta-Realism and the Literary Critical Field · Lena Petrovic, Hear the Voice of the Artist: Postmodernism as Faustian Bargain · Bernd Klähn, The Threefold Way: About the Heuristics and Paradigmatics of (Post)Modernist Culture and Literature · Peter Paul Schnierer, Modernist at Best: Poeticitiy and Tradition in Hyperpoetry · Doris Teske, Beyond Postmodernist Thirdspace? - The Internet in a Post-Postmodern World Re-Reading Postmodernism Christophe Den Tandt , Pragmatic Commitments: Postmodern realism in Don DeLillo, Maxine Hong Kingston and James Ellroy· Christopher Norris, Why Derrida is not a Postmodernist? · Helga Thalhofer, Paradox vs. Analogy: De Man and Foucault · Peter Mortensen, 'Civilization's Fear of Nature': Postmodernity, Culture, and Environment in The God of Small Things Beyond Posmodernism Ihab Hassan, Beyond Postmodernism: Toward an Aesthetic of Trust · Klaus Stierstorfer, Wobbly Grounds: Postmodernism's Precarious Footholds in Novels by Bradbury, Parker, Rushdie, Swift · Vera Nünning , Beyond Indifference: New Departures in British Fiction at the Turn of the 21st Century· Dietmar Böhnke, Shades of Gray: The Peculiar Postmodernism of Alasdair Gray · VictoriaLipina-Berezkina, American Postmodernist Literature at the Turn of the Millenium: the Death and Return of the Subject · Susanne Peters, The Anglo-Irish Playwright Martin McDonagh: Postmodernist Zeitgeist as Cliché and a (Re)turn to the Voice of Common Sense · Laurenz Volkmann, Extension of the Battle Zone: Ian McEwan's Cult Novel The Cement Garden