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 iii
... Rose and Foucault's Pendulum, the novels of Joseph McElroy and Christine Brooke-Rose, avant-garde works such as Kathy Acker's Empire of the Senseless, and works of cyberpunk science-fiction by William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Lewis ...
... Rose and Foucault's Pendulum, the novels of Joseph McElroy and Christine Brooke-Rose, avant-garde works such as Kathy Acker's Empire of the Senseless, and works of cyberpunk science-fiction by William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Lewis ...
Page viii
... Christine Brooke~Rose 207 Telling postmodernist stories otherwise 207 From Out to Thru: POSTmodernISM 209 From Amalgamemnon to Verbivore: as SF 217 Part 4 At the interface 10 POSTcyberMODERNpunkISM 225 Cross the border? Close that gap ...
... Christine Brooke~Rose 207 Telling postmodernist stories otherwise 207 From Out to Thru: POSTmodernISM 209 From Amalgamemnon to Verbivore: as SF 217 Part 4 At the interface 10 POSTcyberMODERNpunkISM 225 Cross the border? Close that gap ...
Page xi
... Christine Brooke—Rose and Richard Martin (Chapter 9); Thomas Disch (Chapter 10); Martin Melaver (Chapters 2, 5 and 7); John Cartmell (Chapters 3, 10 and 11); Randall Stevenson (Chapters 3 and 4); Tamar Hager (Chapters 6 and 7); Clem ...
... Christine Brooke—Rose and Richard Martin (Chapter 9); Thomas Disch (Chapter 10); Martin Melaver (Chapters 2, 5 and 7); John Cartmell (Chapters 3, 10 and 11); Randall Stevenson (Chapters 3 and 4); Tamar Hager (Chapters 6 and 7); Clem ...
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... Christine Brooke-Rose answers (Brooke-Rose 1991:16). And therein lies a tale. For something like two decades, beginning with the ferment of Parisian structuralist narratology in the sixties (Barthes, Bremond, Genette, Greimas, Todorov) ...
... Christine Brooke-Rose answers (Brooke-Rose 1991:16). And therein lies a tale. For something like two decades, beginning with the ferment of Parisian structuralist narratology in the sixties (Barthes, Bremond, Genette, Greimas, Todorov) ...
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... Rose (Chapter 6); they are in effect sibling essays, a fact which Eco, himself a Joycean (among many other things) ... Christine Brooke-Rose had already figured conspicuously, but dispersedly, in Postmodernist Fiction. Chapter 9, “ 'I ...
... Rose (Chapter 6); they are in effect sibling essays, a fact which Eco, himself a Joycean (among many other things) ... Christine Brooke-Rose had already figured conspicuously, but dispersedly, in Postmodernist Fiction. Chapter 9, “ 'I ...
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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