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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 36
Page 2
... strategic in nature, that is, designed with particular purposes in view. In the particular case of those constructs we call literary histories (of which the present book and its predecessor are both, in different ways, examples), the ...
... strategic in nature, that is, designed with particular purposes in view. In the particular case of those constructs we call literary histories (of which the present book and its predecessor are both, in different ways, examples), the ...
Page 3
... strategic nature of construction. I wish I could pretend that I set out programmatically to produce a plurality of constructions; unfortunately, it was not as deliberate as that. However, having recognized post factum that these essays ...
... strategic nature of construction. I wish I could pretend that I set out programmatically to produce a plurality of constructions; unfortunately, it was not as deliberate as that. However, having recognized post factum that these essays ...
Page 25
... strategic constructs or means by which we inventively articulate the continuum of history for purposes of focused analysis and understanding. Strategic is the key word here . . . It suggests goal-directed action, permanent readiness to ...
... strategic constructs or means by which we inventively articulate the continuum of history for purposes of focused analysis and understanding. Strategic is the key word here . . . It suggests goal-directed action, permanent readiness to ...
Page 26
... strategic fictions, if all our categories are constructions, this does not mean that they are all equally good stories, equally sound constructions. It makes a difference which story or variant we choose to tell, and there are criteria ...
... strategic fictions, if all our categories are constructions, this does not mean that they are all equally good stories, equally sound constructions. It makes a difference which story or variant we choose to tell, and there are criteria ...
Page 33
You have reached your viewing limit for this book.
You have reached your viewing limit for this book.
Contents
1 | |
17 | |
Misreading Pynchon | 59 |
Reading postmodernists | 142 |
At the interface | 223 |
Notes | 268 |
References | 308 |
Index | 325 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Amalgamemnon angels apocalypse Barth Bloom Brooke-Rose Casaubon chapters character’s characters Christine Brooke-Rose cognitive consciousness conspiracy construct course critics Crying of Lot culture cyberpunk cyberpunk SF death definition discourse displaced Eco’s episode epistemological epistemological quest essay Eumaeus extra-diegetic extrapolated fictional world field figurative figure film finally find first Foucault’s Pendulum function genre Gibson Gravity’s Rainbow Higgins’s identified instance Jameson Joseph McElroy Joyce Joyce’s literally literary history mainstream Max Apple McElroy McElroy’s McHale metanarrative metaphor metonymic modernism modernist modernist poetics Mona Lisa Overdrive motif movie Name narrative narratology narrator Neuromancer novel nuclear ontological ontological plurality Pale Fire parallax paranoid reading parody passage postcognitive postmod postmodernism postmodernist fiction postmodernist poetics postmodernist texts pronoun Pynchon reader reality reconstructed reflect repertoire representation Rose Schismatrix science fiction second-person seems sense Slothrop space specific Sterling’s story strategies Tlon Ulysses Vacuum Flowers Vineland William Gibson words writing Xorandor