POSTMODERN CULTURE

POSTMODERN CULTURE is published by Oxford University Press three times a year (September, January, and May). PMC's distribution sites are PMC-LIST@LISTSERV.NCSU.EDU (UNIX Listprocessor), FTP.NCSU.EDU in pub/ncsu/pmc/pmc-list (anonymous ftp), JEFFERSON.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU (gopher) and HTTP://JEFFERSON.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU/PMC/CONTENTS.ALL.HTML (World-Wide Web), and Oxford University Press, Journals Division (disk and microfiche). This issue is published with support from North Carolina State University and the University of Virginia. Postmodern Culture is a member of the Conference of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ) and of the Association of Electronic Scholarly Journals (AESJ).

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