Alison Lee
Realism and Power: Postmodern British Fiction.
Routledge, 1990. First edition. 0415041031 xiii/154 pages.
Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.5", shows very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and without markings.
"Postmodernism plays - seriously - with the structures of cultural authority. Focusing on the subversive techniques of British postmodernist fiction, Lee examines its challenge to Realist traditions, and the liberal humanist ideology behind it. 
Lee provides a lively analysis of the ways in which postmodern British novels deliberately use Realist conventions and concepts and subvert them from within the very conventions they seek to transgress.
Exploring the concept of literary postmodernism, and the strategies and philosophies to which it has given rise, Lee investigates how they are developed in a selection of contemporary British novels, such as "Midnight's Children," "Waterland," "Flaubert's Parrot," and "Lanark." With refreshing directness, Lee looks at postmodernism in relation to history, the visual and performing arts, popular culture, including advertising, music videos, and popular fiction, notably Stephen King's "Misery."