Introductory Remarks 1
Part Ⅰ Theatre 9
Case 1：Shakespearean Transformations and Mutations in the Postmodern Cultural Context 11
Case 2：Pushing the Limits of the Postmodern Stage in Ortonesque Farce 52
Part Ⅱ Poetry 115
Case 3：In Search of the Postmodern in British Poetry 117
Case 4：The World of the Postmodern Psychosomatic:Reflections on Ted Hughes' Gaudete 159
Part Ⅲ Fiction 189
Case 5：The Importance of Being Paranoid:Critiquing Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 191
Case 6：Passions and Betrayals:A Postcolonial Re-Reading of T.E.Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom,A Triumph 210
Part Ⅳ Cinema 237
Case 7：Representing Chineseness in Wayne Wang's Films 239
Case 8：Decoding the Semiotic Empire of Hollywood:James Bond as a Symbol of Visual Hegemony 325
Concluding Remarks 348
Selected Bibliography 353