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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... *>—* N 19 19 26 32 35 38 42 44 47 5s 61 61 64 73 81 83 4 “You used to know what these words mean”: misreading. Introducing constructing Constructivism, or, does postmodernism exist? Narrative turns The story so far Essaying. Contents.
... *>—* N 19 19 26 32 35 38 42 44 47 5s 61 61 64 73 81 83 4 “You used to know what these words mean”: misreading. Introducing constructing Constructivism, or, does postmodernism exist? Narrative turns The story so far Essaying. Contents.
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Brian McHale. 4 “You used to know what these words mean”: misreading Gra'vity's Rainbow (1985) 87 Being in uncertainties, mysteries, douhts 87 Circuits of narrative communication 89 The second person of Gravity's Rainbow 95 Misreading ...
Brian McHale. 4 “You used to know what these words mean”: misreading Gra'vity's Rainbow (1985) 87 Being in uncertainties, mysteries, douhts 87 Circuits of narrative communication 89 The second person of Gravity's Rainbow 95 Misreading ...
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... word “postmodernism,” as Alan Thiher says, “has become a counter in our language games” (Thiher 1984:227), and in that sense, if in no other, postmodernism does indeed exist. One such language game in which the word “postmodernism ...
... word “postmodernism,” as Alan Thiher says, “has become a counter in our language games” (Thiher 1984:227), and in that sense, if in no other, postmodernism does indeed exist. One such language game in which the word “postmodernism ...
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... words, constructions, or what I have been calling versions of reality, are 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 ...
... words, constructions, or what I have been calling versions of reality, are 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 ...
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... words, the present book, much more so than its predecessor, tries to acknowledge (however feebly) what Robert Venturi (1977) has called “the obligation toward the difficult whole.” I choose to regard the “imperfect” integration of these ...
... words, the present book, much more so than its predecessor, tries to acknowledge (however feebly) what Robert Venturi (1977) has called “the obligation toward the difficult whole.” I choose to regard the “imperfect” integration of these ...
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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