A poetics of postmodernism history theory fiction naty paris the politics of postmodernism parody and history linda hutcheon cultural critique no 5 modernity and modernism postmodernity and postmodernism winter 1986 1987 pp 179 207. Hutcheon 1988 in a poetics of postmodernism history theory fiction explains the way postmodernist thinking challenges the separateness of the historical and the literary she observes that . A poetics of postmodernism reflects linda hutcheons theorising postmodernism and historiographic metafiction a type of narration that is principally concerned with the constructed nature of the past the past which is the source of the present that is established on the past. A poetics of postmodernism history theory fiction item preview a poetics of postmodernism history theory fiction by hutcheon linda 1947 publication date 1988 topics fiction 20th century history and criticism postmodernism literature publisher new york routledge