Brian McHale

Constructing Postmodernism

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 550g
• ISBN-13: 9780415060141
• ISBN-10: 0415060141
• Artikelnr.: 21674193

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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