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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... criticism. 2. Postmodernism (Literature) 3. Science fiction-20th century—History and criticism. I. Title. PN3503.M37 1992 809.3'04—dc20 92-16210 ISBN 0-415-06013-3 ISBN 0-415-06014-1 (pbk) For Clara Siepmann and Dorothy McHale Chambers ...
... criticism. 2. Postmodernism (Literature) 3. Science fiction-20th century—History and criticism. I. Title. PN3503.M37 1992 809.3'04—dc20 92-16210 ISBN 0-415-06013-3 ISBN 0-415-06014-1 (pbk) For Clara Siepmann and Dorothy McHale Chambers ...
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... and what it tells us about periodization (among other things). To put it differently, these chapters are in part concerned with institutions of reading, including the institution of literary criticism. 1O Constructing postmodernism.
... and what it tells us about periodization (among other things). To put it differently, these chapters are in part concerned with institutions of reading, including the institution of literary criticism. 1O Constructing postmodernism.
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Brian McHale. with institutions of reading, including the institution of literary criticism. Thereafter this preoccupation subsides somewhat, though it never entirely disappears from the later chapters. In Part 3, the focus shifts to a ...
Brian McHale. with institutions of reading, including the institution of literary criticism. Thereafter this preoccupation subsides somewhat, though it never entirely disappears from the later chapters. In Part 3, the focus shifts to a ...
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... critics like myself would have had to invent it. Perhaps we did, in a sense. Certainly, cyberpunk science fiction seems to be on the postmodernist critical agenda. If it had not been there before, it has surely made it onto that agenda ...
... critics like myself would have had to invent it. Perhaps we did, in a sense. Certainly, cyberpunk science fiction seems to be on the postmodernist critical agenda. If it had not been there before, it has surely made it onto that agenda ...
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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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