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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... Epistemology ( “How can I interpret this world. . .f”) 147 Ontology (“Which world is this?”) 151 Topology and eschatology 157 Postscript to The Name of the Rose 163 7 Ways of world-making: on Foucault's Pendulum 165 Paranoid reading 165 ...
... Epistemology ( “How can I interpret this world. . .f”) 147 Ontology (“Which world is this?”) 151 Topology and eschatology 157 Postscript to The Name of the Rose 163 7 Ways of world-making: on Foucault's Pendulum 165 Paranoid reading 165 ...
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... epistemology whose consequences for literary study Siegfried Schmidt has explored (Schmidt 1984, 1985; for other, more ... epistemological principle is that all our cognitive operations, including (or especially) perception itself, are ...
... epistemology whose consequences for literary study Siegfried Schmidt has explored (Schmidt 1984, 1985; for other, more ... epistemological principle is that all our cognitive operations, including (or especially) perception itself, are ...
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... epistemological and ontological foundations. We sus~ pect, with Nelson Goodman (1978), that, while there may well be some— where a “world” underlying all our disparate versions of it,. 4 Constructing postmodernism Narrative turns.
... epistemological and ontological foundations. We sus~ pect, with Nelson Goodman (1978), that, while there may well be some— where a “world” underlying all our disparate versions of it,. 4 Constructing postmodernism Narrative turns.
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... epistemology to ontology, in my narrative the cause of which postmodernism is the effect, could in its turn be motivated as the effect of a further cause. It could, for instance, be seen as symptomatic of the epistemological crisis of ...
... epistemology to ontology, in my narrative the cause of which postmodernism is the effect, could in its turn be motivated as the effect of a further cause. It could, for instance, be seen as symptomatic of the epistemological crisis of ...
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... epistemological and ontological dominants later developed more fully in Postmodernist Fiction. The second Pynchon essay, “ 'You used to know what these words mean': misreading Gravity's Rainbow,” focuses on the indeterminacies of the ...
... epistemological and ontological dominants later developed more fully in Postmodernist Fiction. The second Pynchon essay, “ 'You used to know what these words mean': misreading Gravity's Rainbow,” focuses on the indeterminacies of the ...
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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