Brian McHale provides a series of readings of a 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.
FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand NewLively and wide-ranging, Constructing Postmodernism provides 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. Brian McHale relates these high' culture products to such aspects of postmodern popular culture as television and the cinema, paranoia and nuclear apocalypse, angelology, the cybernetic interface, and death. Broadening the parameters of McHale's earlier Postmodernist Fiction , Constructing Postmodernism does not propose a construction of postmodernism, but offers instead a plurality of postmodernist constructions.
Brian McHale is Senior Lecturer in Poetics and Comparative Literature at Tel-Aviv University, and Co-Editor of Poetics Today.
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;
"Although this book is an excellent introduction to ideas about postmodernism, through the literary studies, it also provides the experience of the postmodern.."
-"Exceptional Human Experience
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