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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... Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow and Vineland, Eco's The Name of the 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 ...
... Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow and Vineland, Eco's The Name of the 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 ...
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... Pynchon's Vineland and McElroy's Women and Men, commissioned by Ron Sukenick for The American Book Review. Chapters 7 and 9 have never before appeared in print in any version. The publishers and I would like to acknowledge gratefully ...
... Pynchon's Vineland and McElroy's Women and Men, commissioned by Ron Sukenick for The American Book Review. Chapters 7 and 9 have never before appeared in print in any version. The publishers and I would like to acknowledge gratefully ...
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... Pynchon's texts: there he is, time and again, especially Gravity's Rainbow, whatever the announced topic might be. The only solution, it seems, is the one Alice finally hit upon, namely, to approach Pynchon head-on (or as nearly head-on ...
... Pynchon's texts: there he is, time and again, especially Gravity's Rainbow, whatever the announced topic might be. The only solution, it seems, is the one Alice finally hit upon, namely, to approach Pynchon head-on (or as nearly head-on ...
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... Pynchon's Virzeland (1990), described below in Chapter 5. Postmodernist modelings of death, I conclude, serve us, in lieu of traditional religious models, as imaginative rehearsals for our own personal extinctions, dry runs for what we ...
... Pynchon's Virzeland (1990), described below in Chapter 5. Postmodernist modelings of death, I conclude, serve us, in lieu of traditional religious models, as imaginative rehearsals for our own personal extinctions, dry runs for what we ...
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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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