Superheroes have busted out of their pulpy roots, and now they’re boldly leaping into a whole new era of postmodernism. It started with creators like Alan Moore and Grant Morrison, but now the ...

Dr. Leslie Goss Erickson, instructor of English at Western Iowa Tech Community College and resident of Elk Point, S.D., has published her first book, Re-Visioning of the Heroic Journey in Postmodern ...

Self-consciousness, self-reflexivity [1] and metafiction are terms often used to describe a particular characteristic common to postmodern fiction. Robert Alter has defined the “self-conscious novel” ...

Two fascinating new novels are not particularly difficult, but their relationship to established traditions of experimental literature is clear. Short-circuiting the language of literary value, ...