Constructing postmodernism
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Constructing postmodernism
Routledge, 1992
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [308]-324) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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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