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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... find their meaning and justification” (1987:199). In a postmodern situation in which science, in particular, is no longer able to legitimate itself by appealing to metaphysical foundations, it is only through the ethnographic context of ...
... find their meaning and justification” (1987:199). In a postmodern situation in which science, in particular, is no longer able to legitimate itself by appealing to metaphysical foundations, it is only through the ethnographic context of ...
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... find (after my own, of course) most persuasive, namely Dick Higgins's (1978 and 1984) and Alan Wilde's (1981). Introduced in Chapter 1, Wilde's story about the “worldliness” or “this-worldliness” of postmodernist fiction returns ...
... find (after my own, of course) most persuasive, namely Dick Higgins's (1978 and 1984) and Alan Wilde's (1981). Introduced in Chapter 1, Wilde's story about the “worldliness” or “this-worldliness” of postmodernist fiction returns ...
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... find, in the essays in this book that are not specifically devoted to Pynchon's texts: there he is, time and again, especially Gravity's Rainbow, whatever the announced topic might be. The only solution, it seems, is the one Alice ...
... find, in the essays in this book that are not specifically devoted to Pynchon's texts: there he is, time and again, especially Gravity's Rainbow, whatever the announced topic might be. The only solution, it seems, is the one Alice ...
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... find science fiction to be one of the places where elite (or “art”) fiction “interfaces” most actively with popular (or “entertainment”) fiction in the postmodern period. I devoted a chapter to science fiction in Postmodernist Fiction ...
... find science fiction to be one of the places where elite (or “art”) fiction “interfaces” most actively with popular (or “entertainment”) fiction in the postmodern period. I devoted a chapter to science fiction in Postmodernist Fiction ...
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... find Richard Rorty distinguishing in analogous terms between the two ways in which “reflective human beings” give sense to their lives. One is “to describe themselves in immediate relation to a nonhuman reality,” i.e., to aspire to ...
... find Richard Rorty distinguishing in analogous terms between the two ways in which “reflective human beings” give sense to their lives. One is “to describe themselves in immediate relation to a nonhuman reality,” i.e., to aspire to ...
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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