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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Brian McHale. Constructing. postmodernism. “Postmodernism is not a found object, but a manufactured artifact.” Beginning from this constructivist premise, Brian McHale develops a series of readings of problematically postmodernist novels ...
Brian McHale. Constructing. postmodernism. “Postmodernism is not a found object, but a manufactured artifact.” Beginning from this constructivist premise, Brian McHale develops a series of readings of problematically postmodernist novels ...
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... Postmodernist Ulysses Modernism-cut-in-half Part 2 (Mis)reading Pynchon Modernist reading, postmodernist text: the case of Gravity's Rainbow (1979) Modernist (mis) ... postmodernism exist? Narrative turns The story so far Essaying. Contents.
... Postmodernist Ulysses Modernism-cut-in-half Part 2 (Mis)reading Pynchon Modernist reading, postmodernist text: the case of Gravity's Rainbow (1979) Modernist (mis) ... postmodernism exist? Narrative turns The story so far Essaying. Contents.
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... postmodernism? 198 Women and Men; or, late-modernism 205 9 “I draw the line as a rule between one solar system and another”: the postmodernism(s) of Christine Brooke~Rose 207 Telling postmodernist stories otherwise 207 From Out to Thru ...
... postmodernism? 198 Women and Men; or, late-modernism 205 9 “I draw the line as a rule between one solar system and another”: the postmodernism(s) of Christine Brooke~Rose 207 Telling postmodernist stories otherwise 207 From Out to Thru ...
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... Postmodernist Stories,” in Theo D'Haen and Hans Bertens (eds) (1988) Postmodern Fiction in Europe and the Americas, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 13-25. Chapter 2, originally published in Style 24, 1 (Spring 1990), 1-21. Chapter 3, originally ...
... Postmodernist Stories,” in Theo D'Haen and Hans Bertens (eds) (1988) Postmodern Fiction in Europe and the Americas, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 13-25. Chapter 2, originally published in Style 24, 1 (Spring 1990), 1-21. Chapter 3, originally ...
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... postmodernism. Or at least there is no such thing if what one has in mind is some kind of identifiable object “out there” in the world ... POSTMODERNISM EXIST? Introducing constructing Constructivism, or, does postmodernism exist?
... postmodernism. Or at least there is no such thing if what one has in mind is some kind of identifiable object “out there” in the world ... POSTMODERNISM EXIST? Introducing constructing Constructivism, or, does postmodernism exist?
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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