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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... SF 217 Part 4 At the interface 10 POSTcyberMODERNpunkISM 225 Cross the border? Close that gap? 225 Feedback in the literary system 227 In the loop (I): postmodernism recycled as cyberpunk 229 In the loop (2): cyberpunk recycled as ...
... SF 217 Part 4 At the interface 10 POSTcyberMODERNpunkISM 225 Cross the border? Close that gap? 225 Feedback in the literary system 227 In the loop (I): postmodernism recycled as cyberpunk 229 In the loop (2): cyberpunk recycled as ...
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... cyberpunk” SF. In fact, if cyberpunk did not exist, postmodernist 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 ...
... cyberpunk” SF. In fact, if cyberpunk did not exist, postmodernist 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 ...
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... cyberpunk and postmodernist fiction. Moreover, Federman is also right when he observes that cyberpunk draws specifically on the kind of postmodernist writing “that played around (playgiaristically) with S.F.,” that is, postmodernism ...
... cyberpunk and postmodernist fiction. Moreover, Federman is also right when he observes that cyberpunk draws specifically on the kind of postmodernist writing “that played around (playgiaristically) with S.F.,” that is, postmodernism ...
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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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