The Routledge Critical Dictionary of Postmodern Thought.(Review) (book review)

symploke, January, 2000 by Moraru, Christian

The Routledge Critical Dictionary of Postmodern Thought. Ed. Stuart Sim. New York: Routledge, 1999. x 401 pp.; The Routledge Language and Cultural Theory Reader. Eds. Lucy Burke, Tony Crowley, and Alan Girvin. New York and London: Routledge, 2000. xvi 511 pp.

On the back cover of The Routledge Critical Dictionary of Postmodern Thought, A.N. Wilson presents the volume as follows: "I recommend every household to buy two copies of this exemplary compendium. One for the teenagers who should have absorbed its wisdom before setting off to college; and the second for the parents, who won't ever need to make fools of themselves again by asking what metanarrative is." The contributors' effort to explain clearly the major concepts and forms of postmodernism is...

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