Literary Research and American Postmodernism: Strategies and Sources

This volume continues the series of Literary Research: Strategies and Sources and contains common elements of the series: introduction to online searching, general literary reference, library catalogues, bibliographies, indexes and annual reviews, scholarly journals, reviews, period journals and newspapers, microform and digital collections, manuscripts and archives and Web resources. The author faces the dilemma of presenting information for a novice searcher (whether an advanced undergraduate or a professional scholar) who is working in a complex conceptual environment, in this case, American postmodern literature, defined here as 1950-1990. Postmodernism itself is a fraught term and a controversial concept, both within the...