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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... novels — Joyce's Ulysses, Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow and Vineland, Eco's The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum, the novels of Joseph McElroy and Christine Brooke-Rose, avant-garde works such as Kathy Acker's Empire of the ...
... novels — Joyce's Ulysses, Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow and Vineland, Eco's The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum, the novels of Joseph McElroy and Christine Brooke-Rose, avant-garde works such as Kathy Acker's Empire of the ...
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... novel in seventeen years, to date the only successor to Gravity's Rainbow. More accurately, this essay uses Vineland as the pretext for reflecting on the place of television in postmodernist fiction, in particular its double role as ...
... novel in seventeen years, to date the only successor to Gravity's Rainbow. More accurately, this essay uses Vineland as the pretext for reflecting on the place of television in postmodernist fiction, in particular its double role as ...
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... novel, Foucault's Pendulum (1988), and so I have devoted a separate chapter to Foucault's Pendulum and its implications for the story of Eco's career as a postmodernist. Chapter 8, “Women and men and angels,” turns to the less familiar ...
... novel, Foucault's Pendulum (1988), and so I have devoted a separate chapter to Foucault's Pendulum and its implications for the story of Eco's career as a postmodernist. Chapter 8, “Women and men and angels,” turns to the less familiar ...
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... novels, one a postmodernist “surfictional” novel by Raymond Federman (The Twofold Vibration, 1982), the other a cyberpunk SF novel, one of the earliest, by Rudy Rucker (Software, also 1982). In each, an aging ex-freak arrives at a ...
... novels, one a postmodernist “surfictional” novel by Raymond Federman (The Twofold Vibration, 1982), the other a cyberpunk SF novel, one of the earliest, by Rudy Rucker (Software, also 1982). In each, an aging ex-freak arrives at a ...
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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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