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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... Barth's familiar story about exhaustion and replenishment, the other Dick Higgins's much less familiar one about cognitivism and postcognitivism, and Higgins's is found to satisfy the criteria for a good story better than Barth's. The ...
... Barth's familiar story about exhaustion and replenishment, the other Dick Higgins's much less familiar one about cognitivism and postcognitivism, and Higgins's is found to satisfy the criteria for a good story better than Barth's. The ...
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... Barth's story has recently received the imprimatur of Charles Jencks, self-appointed custodian of the term “postmodernism” (Jencks 1986:7). But just how good a story is it? How well does it fit? Originally published in 1967, when Barth ...
... Barth's story has recently received the imprimatur of Charles Jencks, self-appointed custodian of the term “postmodernism” (Jencks 1986:7). But just how good a story is it? How well does it fit? Originally published in 1967, when Barth ...
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... Barth exemplifies the literature of exhaustion by Borges's strategy in one of his more familiar fables, “Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” (from The Garden of For/eing Paths, 1941). This is one of those texts in which Borges, presumably aware ...
... Barth exemplifies the literature of exhaustion by Borges's strategy in one of his more familiar fables, “Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” (from The Garden of For/eing Paths, 1941). This is one of those texts in which Borges, presumably aware ...
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... Barth himself says little about it. Think only of those passages, for instance in Molloy or Watt or “The Lost Ones ... Barth's sense) certain basic conventions of fiction at the same time that it literally exhausts the possibilities of a ...
... Barth himself says little about it. Think only of those passages, for instance in Molloy or Watt or “The Lost Ones ... Barth's sense) certain basic conventions of fiction at the same time that it literally exhausts the possibilities of a ...
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... Barth defines it, than it is like the literature of replenishment that Barth envisages. World-games If Calvino's role in John Barth's postmodernist breakthrough story is problematic because he too closely resembles the literature of ...
... Barth defines it, than it is like the literature of replenishment that Barth envisages. World-games If Calvino's role in John Barth's postmodernist breakthrough story is problematic because he too closely resembles the literature of ...
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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