Brian 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 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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Introducing Constructing; Part 1 Narrating Literary Histories; Chapter 1 Telling Postmodernist Stories; Chapter 2 Constructing (Post)Modernism; Part 2 (Mis)Reading Pynchon; Chapter 3 Modernist Reading, Postmodernist Text; Chapter 4 “You Used to Know What these Words Mean”; Chapter 5 Zapping, the Art of Switching Channels; Part 3 Reading Postmodernists; Chapter 6 The (Post)Modernism of the Name of the Rose; Chapter 7 Ways of World-Making; Chapter 8 Women and Men and Angels; Chapter 9 “I Draw the Line as a Rule between One Solar System and Another”; Part 4 At the Interface; Chapter 10 Postcybermodernpunkism; Chapter 11 Towards a Poetics of Cyberpunk;
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780415060141
Publisert
1993-01-07
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
566 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
U, G, 05, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
354

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Biographical note

Brian McHale is Senior Lecturer in Poetics and Comparative Literature at Tel-Aviv University, and Co-Editor of Poetics Today.