Table of Contents: “…-- The internet in a post-postmodern world / Doris Teske -- Re-reading postmodernism -- Pragmatic commitments : postmodern realism in Don DeLillo, Maxine Hong Kingston and James Ellroy / Christophe Den Tandt -- Why Derrida is not a postmodernist / Christopher Norris -- Paradox vs. analogy : De Man and Foucault / Helga Thalhofer -- 'Civilization's fear of nature' : postmodernity, culture, and environment in the god of small things / Peter Mortensen -- Beyond postmodernism -- Beyond postmodernism : toward an aesthetic of trust / Ihab Hassan -- Wobbly grounds : postmodernism's precarious footholds in novels by Bradbury, Parker, Rushdie, Swift / Klaus Stierstorfer -- Beyond indifference : new departures in British fiction at the turn of the 21st century / Vera Nunning -- Shades of gray : the peculiar postmodernism of Alasdair Gray / Dietmar Bohnke -- American postmodernist literature at the turn of the millennium : the death and return of the subject / Victoria Lipina-Berezkina -- The Anglo-Irish playwright Martin McDonagh : postmodernist zeitgeist as cliche and a (re)turn to the voice of common sense / Susanne Peters -- Extension of the battle zone : Ian McEwan's cult novel the Cement garden / Laurenz Volkmann.…”