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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... passage I have quoted, but he might as Well be talking about Max Apple, and in fact does talk about Apple in strikingly similar terms elsewhere in the same book (Wilde 1981:132-3, 161-7). The postmodern breakthrough But if, as appears ...
... passage I have quoted, but he might as Well be talking about Max Apple, and in fact does talk about Apple in strikingly similar terms elsewhere in the same book (Wilde 1981:132-3, 161-7). The postmodern breakthrough But if, as appears ...
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... passages, for instance in Molloy or Watt or “The Lost Ones,” where Beckett has his protagonist(s) literally exhaust, in a systematic way, all the possibilities of action calculable given a certain restricted set of objects and states ...
... passages, for instance in Molloy or Watt or “The Lost Ones,” where Beckett has his protagonist(s) literally exhaust, in a systematic way, all the possibilities of action calculable given a certain restricted set of objects and states ...
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... passage: Rolled up in its case was an old “jikker” or skimmer, a blue magic rug with Arabian designs, faded but still enchanting, which Uncle Daniel's father had used in his boyhood and later flown when drunk. Because of the many ...
... passage: Rolled up in its case was an old “jikker” or skimmer, a blue magic rug with Arabian designs, faded but still enchanting, which Uncle Daniel's father had used in his boyhood and later flown when drunk. Because of the many ...
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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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