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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... cultural products — “art” novels - Construct' ing Postmodernism relates these products to such phenomena of postmodern popular culture as television and the cinema, paranoia and nuclear anxiety, angelology and the cybernetic interface ...
... cultural products — “art” novels - Construct' ing Postmodernism relates these products to such phenomena of postmodern popular culture as television and the cinema, paranoia and nuclear anxiety, angelology and the cybernetic interface ...
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... cultural artifacts, such as, for example, “the Renaissance” or “American literature” or “pastoral elegy” or “Shakespeare.” Like these other artifacts, postmodernism exists discursively, in the discourses we produce about it and using it ...
... cultural artifacts, such as, for example, “the Renaissance” or “American literature” or “pastoral elegy” or “Shakespeare.” Like these other artifacts, postmodernism exists discursively, in the discourses we produce about it and using it ...
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... cultural studies generally) and the strategic nature of construction. I wish I could pretend that I set out programmatically to produce a plurality of constructions; unfortunately, it was not as deliberate as that. However, having ...
... cultural studies generally) and the strategic nature of construction. I wish I could pretend that I set out programmatically to produce a plurality of constructions; unfortunately, it was not as deliberate as that. However, having ...
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... culture is inevitably to tell some kind of story about it, and that story will inevitably be implicated in some metanarrative or other. Rather than letting one's discourse be shaped, or rather deformed, by the desire to evade and ...
... culture is inevitably to tell some kind of story about it, and that story will inevitably be implicated in some metanarrative or other. Rather than letting one's discourse be shaped, or rather deformed, by the desire to evade and ...
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... 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 remain at a lower level of narrative ...
... 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 remain at a lower level of narrative ...
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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