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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... consciousness through its fashioning of patterns of “imaginary” events. (White. 1987:45). In other words, where Lyotard sees narrative as self-legitimating because of its deep complicity with our culture's social construction of reality ...
... consciousness through its fashioning of patterns of “imaginary” events. (White. 1987:45). In other words, where Lyotard sees narrative as self-legitimating because of its deep complicity with our culture's social construction of reality ...
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... consciousness, the modernists' painful sense of the irreducible gap between their need for order and the disorderliness of reality. Then came “a space of transition” (Wilde 1981:120) — rather less abrupt in Wilde's account than in other ...
... consciousness, the modernists' painful sense of the irreducible gap between their need for order and the disorderliness of reality. Then came “a space of transition” (Wilde 1981:120) — rather less abrupt in Wilde's account than in other ...
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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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