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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... narrator displays is characteristically postmodernist and suspensive — the attitude of someone who is half kidding, though we are not quite sure about what. Apple's postmodernist suspensiveness is also evident in the flood of ...
... narrator displays is characteristically postmodernist and suspensive — the attitude of someone who is half kidding, though we are not quite sure about what. Apple's postmodernist suspensiveness is also evident in the flood of ...
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... narrator of Pale Fire, one Kinbote or Botkin (we are not even sure of his name), author of a pseudo-scholarly line-by-line commentary on John Shade's long poem “Pale Fire,” has distorted various (fictional) facts, but we cannot ...
... narrator of Pale Fire, one Kinbote or Botkin (we are not even sure of his name), author of a pseudo-scholarly line-by-line commentary on John Shade's long poem “Pale Fire,” has distorted various (fictional) facts, but we cannot ...
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... narrator-commentator, is its exiled king; according to other hypotheses, it exists but Kinbote was never its king; according to still others, it does not exist at all. By contrast, we can be quite sure that Antiterra exists ...
... narrator-commentator, is its exiled king; according to other hypotheses, it exists but Kinbote was never its king; according to still others, it does not exist at all. By contrast, we can be quite sure that Antiterra exists ...
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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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