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Constructing Postmodernism

Brian McHale
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      "Postmodernism is not a found object, but a manufactured artifact". Beginning from this constructivist premise Brian McHale develops a series of readings of problematically postmodernist novels - Joyce's "Ulysses", Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow" and "Vineland", Eco's "The Name of the Rose" and "Foucault's Pendulum", the novels of Joseph McElroy and Christine Brooke-Rose, avant-garde works such as Kathy Acker's "Empire of the Senseless", and the works of cyberpunk science-fiction by William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Lewis Shiner, Rudy Rucker and others. Although mainly focused on "high" or "elite" cultural products - "art" novels - "Constructing Postmodernism" relates these products to such phenomena of postmodern popular culture as television and the cinema, paranoia and nuclear apocalypse, angelology and the cybernetic interface, and death, now as always (in spite of what Captain Kirk says) the true Final Frontier. McHale's previous book, "Postmodernist Fiction", had seemed to propose a single, all-inclusive inventory of postmodernist poetics. This book, by contrast, proposes multiple, overlapping and interesting inventories.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Brian McHale EAN: 9780415060134 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 657 g HEIGHT: 234 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Taylor & Francis Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 1993-01-07 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / General WIDTH: 156 cm SPINE:

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      20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Cultural studies, Anthropology

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      Brian McHale is Senior Lecturer in Poetics and Comparative Literature at Tel-Aviv University, and Co-Editor of Poetics Today.
      "Postmodernism is not a found object, but a manufactured artifact". Beginning from this constructivist premise Brian McHale develops a series of readings of problematically postmodernist novels - Joyce's "Ulysses", Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow" and "Vineland", Eco's "The Name of the Rose" and "Foucault's Pendulum", the novels of Joseph McElroy and Christine Brooke-Rose, avant-garde works such as Kathy Acker's "Empire of the Senseless", and the works of cyberpunk science-fiction by William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Lewis Shiner, Rudy Rucker and others. Although mainly focused on "high" or "elite" cultural products - "art" novels - "Constructing Postmodernism" relates these products to such phenomena of postmodern popular culture as television and the cinema, paranoia and nuclear apocalypse, angelology and the cybernetic interface, and death, now as always (in spite of what Captain Kirk says) the true Final Frontier. McHale's previous book, "Postmodernist Fiction", had seemed to propose a single, all-inclusive inventory of postmodernist poetics. This book, by contrast, proposes multiple, overlapping and interesting inventories.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Brian McHale EAN: 9780415060134 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 657 g HEIGHT: 234 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Taylor & Francis Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 1993-01-07 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / General WIDTH: 156 cm SPINE:

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      20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Cultural studies, Anthropology

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

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