Constructing PostmodernismBrian McHale provides a series of readings of a wide range of postmodernist fiction, from Eco's Foucault's Pendulum to the works of cyberpunk science-fiction, relating the works to aspects of postmodern popular culture. |
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... fields and disciplines of the human sciences — all have recently been affected by what Christopher Norris (1985) has called the “narrative turn” of theory. It is indicative that the editors of a recent volume of conference papers on ...
... fields and disciplines of the human sciences — all have recently been affected by what Christopher Norris (1985) has called the “narrative turn” of theory. It is indicative that the editors of a recent volume of conference papers on ...
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... field, one in which models, materials, images, “ideas,” etc. circulate openly from text to text, and are conspicuously cited, analyzed, combined, revised, and reconfigured. In this it differs from “mainstream” postmodernism only in the ...
... field, one in which models, materials, images, “ideas,” etc. circulate openly from text to text, and are conspicuously cited, analyzed, combined, revised, and reconfigured. In this it differs from “mainstream” postmodernism only in the ...
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... field: Federman, out of the exitless spaces of Beckett's fiction (eg “The Lost Ones”) and his own autobiographical myth, repeated in novel after novel, of having survived his own death in the Holocaust; Rucker, out of what he calls the ...
... field: Federman, out of the exitless spaces of Beckett's fiction (eg “The Lost Ones”) and his own autobiographical myth, repeated in novel after novel, of having survived his own death in the Holocaust; Rucker, out of what he calls the ...
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... field, and there does seem to have been some kind of convergence or interaction between cyberpunk and postmodernist fiction. Moreover, Federman is also right when he observes that cyberpunk draws specifically on the kind of ...
... field, and there does seem to have been some kind of convergence or interaction between cyberpunk and postmodernist fiction. Moreover, Federman is also right when he observes that cyberpunk draws specifically on the kind of ...
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... field around itself, attracting other texts into orbit around it, some nearer, some farther out. Part of what interests me in these texts is precisely this capacity they have to create their own intertextual fields, and I have sought ...
... field around itself, attracting other texts into orbit around it, some nearer, some farther out. Part of what interests me in these texts is precisely this capacity they have to create their own intertextual fields, and I have sought ...
Contents
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Misreading Pynchon | 59 |
Reading postmodernists | 142 |
At the interface | 223 |
Notes | 268 |
References | 308 |
Index | 325 |
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