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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Page xi
... Yesud Hama'ala, Upper Galilee, who gave us sanctuary in the emergency of January through March 1991, during which I somehow drafted Chapter 5. Finally, my thanks to George Milner and Claire McHale Milner. Acknowledgments xi.
... Yesud Hama'ala, Upper Galilee, who gave us sanctuary in the emergency of January through March 1991, during which I somehow drafted Chapter 5. Finally, my thanks to George Milner and Claire McHale Milner. Acknowledgments xi.
Page xii
Brian McHale. Finally, my thanks to George Milner and Claire McHale Milner for taking us to an exhibition at Penn State that they rightly guessed would appeal to our postmodernist sensibilities, thereby introducing me to the paintings of ...
Brian McHale. Finally, my thanks to George Milner and Claire McHale Milner for taking us to an exhibition at Penn State that they rightly guessed would appeal to our postmodernist sensibilities, thereby introducing me to the paintings of ...
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... finally inaccessible, and all we have are the versions; but that hardly matters, since it is only the versions that are of any use to us anyway, and the putative world-before-all-versions is, as Rorty (1982) says, “well lost ...
... finally inaccessible, and all we have are the versions; but that hardly matters, since it is only the versions that are of any use to us anyway, and the putative world-before-all-versions is, as Rorty (1982) says, “well lost ...
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... finally hit upon, namely, to approach Pynchon head-on (or as nearly head-on as the special difficulties of his texts permit), and then one has some chance of finally reaching the hilltop, from where it is possible to survey the entire ...
... finally hit upon, namely, to approach Pynchon head-on (or as nearly head-on as the special difficulties of his texts permit), and then one has some chance of finally reaching the hilltop, from where it is possible to survey the entire ...
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... Finally, Jerome Bruner has recently sought to confer legitimacy on narrative as a “mode of thought” on a par, epistemologically and ontologically, with the empirico-logical mode of science (Bruner 1986). It is with these and similar ...
... Finally, Jerome Bruner has recently sought to confer legitimacy on narrative as a “mode of thought” on a par, epistemologically and ontologically, with the empirico-logical mode of science (Bruner 1986). It is with these and similar ...
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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