1. Preface (by Calinescu, Matei); 2. I. General Problems; 3. Introductory Remarks: Postmodernism, the Mimetic and Theatrical Fallacies (by Calinescu, Matei); 4. Pluralism in Postmodern Perspective (by Hassan, Ihab); 5. Teleology in Postmodern Fiction (by Szegedy-Maszak, Mihaly); 6. Allegory, Hermeneutics, and Postmodernism (by Spariosu, Mihai); 7. Postmodern Italy: Notes on the "Crisis of Reason", "Weak Thought", and The Name of the Rose (by Rosso, Stefano); 8. II. Analytical Criticism; 9. New Nouns for Old: "Language" Poetry, Language Game, and the Pleasure of the Text (by Perloff, Marjorie); 10. Samuel Beckett and the Postmodernism Controversy (by Mitchell, Breon); 11. The Intrusive Author in Bristish Postmodernist Fiction: The Cases of Alasdair Gray and Martin Amis (by Todd, Richard); 12. Postmodern Characterization and the Intrusion of Language (by Bertens, Hans); 13. Popular Genre Conventions in Postmodern Fiction: The Case of the Western (by D'haen, Theo); 14. Reading One/Self: Samuel Beckett. Thomas Bernhard, Peter Handke, John Barth, Alain Robbe-Grillet (by Hornung, Alfred); 15. Michel Leiris' Autobiography La Regle du jeu and Postmodernism (by Severijnen, Olav); 16. Narrative Discourse in Postmodernist Texts: The Conventions of the Novel and the Multiplication of Narrative Instances (by Musarra, Ulla); 17. Concluding Observations: Is There a Future for Research on Postmodernism? (by Fokkema, Douwe W.); 18. Notes on the Contributors; 19. References; 20. Index