E-Book, Englisch, 356 Seiten
McHale Constructing Postmodernism
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-135-08356-4
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
E-Book, Englisch, 356 Seiten
ISBN: 978-1-135-08356-4
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
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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Acknowledgments Introduction Part I Narrating literary histories 1.Telling postmodernist stories 2.Constructing postmodernism: the case of Ulysses Part II (Mis)reading Pynchon 3.Modernist reading, postmodernist text: the case of Gravity's Rainbow 4."You used to know what these words mean": misreading Gravity's Rainbow 5.Zapping, the art of switching channels: on Vineland Part III Reading postmodernists 6.The postmodernism of The Name of the Rose 7.Ways of world-making: on Foucault's Pendulum 8.Women and men and the angels: on Joseph McElroys fiction 9."I draw the line as a rule between one solar system and another": the postmodernisms of Christine Brooke-Rose Part IV At the interface 10.POSTcyberMODERNpunkISM 11.Towards a poetics of cyberpunk References