Daniel Worden co-edited Twentieth-Century Literature

Daniel Worden has co-edited a special issue of the journal Twentieth-Century Literature, which has just been published.

The journal Twentieth-Century Literature has just published a special, double issue on Postmodernism, Then (volume 57, numbers 3-4), edited by UNM English Department faculty member Daniel Worden and Jason Gladstone (Ball State University). In a contemporary moment that signals both the institutionalization and the exhaustion of postmodernist aesthetics, the Postmodernism, Then special issue returns to the category of the postmodern and explores how postmodernism takes on new meanings when scholars can think of postmodernism as not only the present but also the recent past, not only a unifying category that contains all late 20th-century literature but also one aesthetic among many.

The special issue features an introductory essay by Daniel Worden and Jason Gladstone, as well as contributions from leading scholars in the field: Rey Chow, Hillary Chute, Madhu Dubey, Ursula Heise, Andrew Hoberek, Caren Irr, David James, Adam Kelly, Mark McGurl, Brian McHale, Walter Benn Michaels, Emilio Sauri, and Rachel Greenwald Smith.