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
... 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 Rucker and others. Although mainly ...
... 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 Rucker and others. Although mainly ...
Page viii
... Joseph McElroy's fiction 188 Metonymy; or, realism 188 Epistemology; or, modernism 194 Angelology; or, postmodernism? 198 Women and Men; or, late-modernism 205 9 “I draw the line as a rule between one solar system and another”: the ...
... Joseph McElroy's fiction 188 Metonymy; or, realism 188 Epistemology; or, modernism 194 Angelology; or, postmodernism? 198 Women and Men; or, late-modernism 205 9 “I draw the line as a rule between one solar system and another”: the ...
Page xi
... Joseph McElroy, Steven Moore, and Tamar Yacobi (Chapter 8); 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 ...
... Joseph McElroy, Steven Moore, and Tamar Yacobi (Chapter 8); 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 ...
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... Joseph McElroy: A Smuggler's Bible (1966), Hind's Kidnap (1969), Lookout Cartridge (1974), Plus (1979), and above all his massive (IZOD-page), synoptic magnum opus, Women and Men (1987).13 Women and Men is characterized here (in a ...
... Joseph McElroy: A Smuggler's Bible (1966), Hind's Kidnap (1969), Lookout Cartridge (1974), Plus (1979), and above all his massive (IZOD-page), synoptic magnum opus, Women and Men (1987).13 Women and Men is characterized here (in a ...
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... Joseph McElroy); one, the essay on BrookeRose, was originally commissioned for a book project that sadly failed to materialize. I have sought to preserve the “occasional” quality of these essays as appropriate to the book's theme of ...
... Joseph McElroy); one, the essay on BrookeRose, was originally commissioned for a book project that sadly failed to materialize. I have sought to preserve the “occasional” quality of these essays as appropriate to the book's theme 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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