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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... Jameson, and Jean-Francois Lyotard. The narrative turn would seem to be one of the contemporary responses to the loss of metaphysical “grounding” or “foundations” for our theorizing. We are no longer confident that we can build ...
... Jameson, and Jean-Francois Lyotard. The narrative turn would seem to be one of the contemporary responses to the loss of metaphysical “grounding” or “foundations” for our theorizing. We are no longer confident that we can build ...
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... Jameson's attitude, when he writes, I have proposed a “model” of postmodernism, which is worth what it's worth and must now take its chances independently; but it is the construction of such a model that is ultimately the fascinating ...
... Jameson's attitude, when he writes, I have proposed a “model” of postmodernism, which is worth what it's worth and must now take its chances independently; but it is the construction of such a model that is ultimately the fascinating ...
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... Jameson's story of postmodernism as the cultural logic of late capitalism (see Jameson 1991b).“ I do not see that this higher~level, motivating metanarrative is incompatible with the story I have chosen to tell; but I have preferred to ...
... Jameson's story of postmodernism as the cultural logic of late capitalism (see Jameson 1991b).“ I do not see that this higher~level, motivating metanarrative is incompatible with the story I have chosen to tell; but I have preferred to ...
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... Jameson (Chapter 10); and even a story, told by Jameson and by Harvey (1989), according to which modernism and postmodernism are not period styles at all, one of them current and the other outdated, but more like alternative stylistic ...
... Jameson (Chapter 10); and even a story, told by Jameson and by Harvey (1989), according to which modernism and postmodernism are not period styles at all, one of them current and the other outdated, but more like alternative stylistic ...
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... Jameson's Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991b). Here Jameson speaks of cyberpunk as “henceforth, for many of us, the supreme literary expression if not of postmodernism, then of late capitalism itself” (Jameson ...
... Jameson's Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991b). Here Jameson speaks of cyberpunk as “henceforth, for many of us, the supreme literary expression if not of postmodernism, then of late capitalism itself” (Jameson ...
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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