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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... 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 Shiner, Rudy ...
... 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 Shiner, Rudy ...
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... Foucault's Pendulum 165 Paranoid reading 165 “The Plan” and ways of world-making 172 The postmodernism of Foucault's Pendulum 176 Anti-paranoia 185 8 Women and men and angels: on Joseph McElroy's fiction 188 Metonymy; or, realism 188 ...
... Foucault's Pendulum 165 Paranoid reading 165 “The Plan” and ways of world-making 172 The postmodernism of Foucault's Pendulum 176 Anti-paranoia 185 8 Women and men and angels: on Joseph McElroy's fiction 188 Metonymy; or, realism 188 ...
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... Foucault's Pendulum (1988), and so I have devoted a separate chapter to Foucault's Pendulum and its implications for the story of Eco's career as a postmodernist. Chapter 8, “Women and men and angels,” turns to the less familiar novels ...
... Foucault's Pendulum (1988), and so I have devoted a separate chapter to Foucault's Pendulum and its implications for the story of Eco's career as a postmodernist. Chapter 8, “Women and men and angels,” turns to the less familiar novels ...
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... Foucault's Pendulum, McElroy, Brooke-Rose) to the science-fiction writers of Part 4 might at first glance appear abrupt and weakly motivated, as though the SF material had been casually tacked onto a book otherwise very different in ...
... Foucault's Pendulum, McElroy, Brooke-Rose) to the science-fiction writers of Part 4 might at first glance appear abrupt and weakly motivated, as though the SF material had been casually tacked onto a book otherwise very different in ...
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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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