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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... Representation,” even (what else?) “Stories About Stories.” A number of theorists (or what we would once have called theorists), some from within the literary discipline, others “outsiders,” have been influential in getting us to think ...
... Representation,” even (what else?) “Stories About Stories.” A number of theorists (or what we would once have called theorists), some from within the literary discipline, others “outsiders,” have been influential in getting us to think ...
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... representation of history, the. Hierarchy Anarchy Presence Absence Genital Polymorphous Narrative Anti-narrative Metaphysics Irony Construction of a Deconstruction of a world-model world-model Ontological certainty. Introducing constructing ...
... representation of history, the. Hierarchy Anarchy Presence Absence Genital Polymorphous Narrative Anti-narrative Metaphysics Irony Construction of a Deconstruction of a world-model world-model Ontological certainty. Introducing constructing ...
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... representation are only, like written music, notations for a potential performance — in this case, the performance of a narrative. A canon always implies a legitimating story and, vice versa, a literary-historical narrative always ...
... representation are only, like written music, notations for a potential performance — in this case, the performance of a narrative. A canon always implies a legitimating story and, vice versa, a literary-historical narrative always ...
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... representation, and the Cartesian “mind.” Barker's version of the story differs from the others in its literal apocalypticism: threatened with annihilation, bourgeois discourse will, Barker fears, contrive to bring the whole world down ...
... representation, and the Cartesian “mind.” Barker's version of the story differs from the others in its literal apocalypticism: threatened with annihilation, bourgeois discourse will, Barker fears, contrive to bring the whole world down ...
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... representation of things as we find them “out there” in the world (but what “things” correspond to a literary-historical construct such as “postmodernism” anyway? and where, in such a case, is “out there”?), but only that our story is ...
... representation of things as we find them “out there” in the world (but what “things” correspond to a literary-historical construct such as “postmodernism” anyway? and where, in such a case, is “out there”?), but only that our story is ...
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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